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OpenStack Weekly Newsletter (December 3 – December 10)

December 10, 2010

OpenStack Community Newsletter – December 10, 2010

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email [email protected].

HIGHLIGHTS

China and Japan OpenStack Photos and Video Collection from Mark Collier – http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0092008/photos/markcollier/sets/72157625426820555/show/
The Story of an OpenStack feature by John Dickinson; http://programmerthoughts.com/programming/the-story-of-an-openstack-feature/
Cloud Computing: 2011 Predictions by Bernard Golden CIO.com, http://www.cio.com/article/645763/Cloud_Computing_2011_Predictions

EVENTS

OpenStack at the Austin Cloud Users Group : December 14, 2010: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1058739719
OpenStack User Group NYC: January 12, 2011; http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-New-York-Meetup/calendar/15634525/
Fudcon: January 29-31, 2011 Tempe, Arizona http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011
O’Reilly Strata: Feb 1 – 3, 2011 Santa Clara CA http://strataconf.com/strata2011
FOSDEM 2011: Feb 5 – 6. 2011 Brussels, Belgium http://www.fosdem.org/2011/about/fosdem
SCALE 2011: Feb 25-27, 2011: Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/
Call for Papers
- Linux Conference Australia 2011 (http://lca2011.linux.org.au/)

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

Project “D” Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/DReleaseSchedule
Project “E” Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/EReleaseSchedule
Meeting Minutes – December 7
- Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-12-07-21.01.html
- Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-12-07-21.01.log.html
I18n proposed plan Discussion – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00122.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

Egypt OpenStack User Group – http://groups.google.com/group/egypt-openstack-user-group
Latest Bret Piatt Presentations – http://www.slideshare.net/group/openstackcloud
OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
- Launchpad Groups – http://wiki.openstack.org/LaunchpadGroups
- XenServer Snapshots – http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServerSnapshotBlueprint
- Running OpenStack Compute (NOVA) in a Virtual Environment – http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaVirtually
- All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (12/3– 12/9)

Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
- 17 Active Reviews
- 97 Active Branches – owned by 34 people & 4 teams
- 472 commits by 26 people in last month
OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
- 5 Active Reviews
- 41 Active Branches – owned by 19 people & 2 teams
- 184 commits by 15 people in last month
Twitter Stats for Week: #openstack 53 tweets; 47 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 200
Bugs Stats for Week: 139 Tracked Bugs; 51 New Bugs; 7 In-process Bugs; 3 Critical Bugs; 15 High Importance Bugs; 45 Bugs (Fix Committed)
Blueprints Stats for Week: 135 Blueprints; 5 Essential, 20 High, 16 Medium, 14 Low, 80 Undefined
OpenStack Website Stats for Week: 7,267 Visits, 23,663 Pageviews, 51.04% New Visits
- Top 5 Pages: Home 30.43%; /projects 5.92%; /projects/compute 9.24%; /projects/storage 5.83%; /NovaInstall 5.21%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

The Open Cloud: There’s a Right Way by Sheng Liang, LinuxInsider; http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/71389.html
Cloud Computing: 2011 Predictions by Bernard Golden CIO.com, http://www.cio.com/article/645763/Cloud_Computing_2011_Predictions
Salesforce.com-Heroku deal muddies the water for VMware by Jo Maitland SearchCloudComputing.com; http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/column/0,294698,sid201_gci1524907,00.html
Cyberduck FTP updated to v3.8, integrates CloudFront; http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/12/03/public.beta.for.windows.version.out.soon/
Community and Cloud.com: Interview with Mark Hinkle by Joe Brockmeier, NetworkWorld; http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/69450
Nimbula punts instamatic cloud kit to world+dog by Cade Metz, The Register; http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/07/nimbula_public_beta/
Nimbula Director Beta Lets Enterprises Create Amazon EC2-Like Public Clouds by Fahmida Rashid, eWeek; http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Nimbula-Director-Beta-Lets-Enterprises-Create-Amazon-EC2Like-Private-Clouds-190452/
Understanding the cloud as a web hosting company by Steven Higashi, Web Host Industry Review; http://www.thewhir.com/blog/Steven_Higashi/120310_Understanding_the_cloud_as_a_web_hosting_company
Cyberduck 3.8をリリース by David Kocher; http://www.value-press.com/pressrelease.php?article_id=69592

Tags: Newsletter

OpenStack Weekly Newsletter (November 27 – December 3)

Stephen Spector

December 3, 2010

OpenStack Community Newsletter – December 3, 2010

Japan OpenStack User Group Meeting

HIGHLIGHTS

Bleeding edge OpenStack NOVA on Maverick – http://fnords.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/bleeding-edge-openstack-nova-on-maverick/
Cactus Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/CactusReleaseSchedule
OpenStack Design Summit Spring 2011
- Proposed dates and location: http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit/Spring2011

EVENTS

Telecom Cloud Conference: December 6-7, 2011 Santa Clara, CA http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/agendas/ca-10/Telecom_Cloud_Agenda.pdf
OpenStack User Group NYC: January 12, 2011; http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-New-York-Meetup/?a=socialmedia
Fudcon: January 29-31, 2011 Tempe, Arizona http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011
O’Reilly Strata: Feb 1 – 3, 2011 Santa Clara CA http://strataconf.com/strata2011
Call for Papers
- Linux Conference Australia 2011 (http://lca2011.linux.org.au/)

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

Cactus Release Schedule – http://wiki.openstack.org/CactusReleaseSchedule
Meeting Minutes – November 30
- Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-11-30-21.00.html
- Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-11-30-21.00.html
- NOVA smaller image available for testing Discussion – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00103.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

OpenStack Tutorial Slides from Bret Piatt at IEEE CloudCom 2010 – http://www.slideshare.net/bpiatt/openstack-tutorial
New Mailing List – [email protected] ; http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-cfengine
Doc Plans for Upcoming OpenStack Releases – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2010/11/doc-plans-for-upcoming-openstack-releases/
OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
- I SCSISupport Xen API – http://wiki.openstack.org/iSCSISupportXenAPI
- nova deployment tool – http://wiki.openstack.org/nova-deployment-tool
- Bexar Developer Topics – http://wiki.openstack.org/BexarDeveloperTopics
- All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (11/26– 12/2)

Data Tracking Graphs and Raw Data – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
Twitter Stats for Week: #openstack 68 tweets; 32 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 155
Bugs Stats for Week: 120 Tracked Bugs; 43 New Bugs; 8 In-process Bugs; 2 Critical Bugs; 12 High Importance Bugs; 39 Bugs (Fix Committed)
Blueprints Stats for Week: 135 Blueprints; 5 Essential, 20 High, 13 Medium, 8 Low, 89 Undefined
OpenStack Website Stats for Week: 7,708 Visits, 24,525 Pageviews, 52.15% New Visits
- Top 5 Pages: Home 31.89%; /projects 6.08%; /projects/compute 8.75%; /projects/storage 5.65%; /NovaInstall 4.62%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

The 10 Biggest Cloud Computing Stories of 2010 on CRN – http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/228300060/the-10-biggest-cloud-computing-stories-of-2010.htm;jsessionid=OQ-wDpKNOliisl0agIFIng**.ecappj03?pgno=1
MGuest Post: How the Cloud is Changing the Way Developers Works by Lisa Hoover on Gigaom; http://ostatic.com/blog/guest-post-how-the-cloud-is-changing-the-way-developers-work
Red Hat Acquires Makara Amid Cloud Services Provider Push by Joe Panettieri on MSPMentor; http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/11/30/red-hat-acquires-makara-amid-cloud-services-provider-push/comment-page-1/
Wie der Linux-Verband LIVE und die Linux Solutions Group (LiSoG) bekannt gaben, ist es in den letzten Wochen zu einer deutlichen Annäherung zwischen den beiden Linux-Organisationen gekommen. By Mirko Lidner on Pro-linux.de; http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/16448/live-und-lisog-wollen-enger-kooperieren.html

Tags: Newsletter

Doc Plans for Upcoming OpenStack Releases

Anne Gentle

November 30, 2010

I’m supposed to be strategic about documentation and well, I have to say I feel a bit behind in creating specs for documentation for the upcoming OpenStack releases. Much spec planning went on at the Summit, but I was so focused on the Doc Sprint that I didn’t set any concrete doc plans for Bexar and Cactus releases. I’d like to amend that and get input from everyone in the community and beyond. Here are some ideas that go into a single blueprint for documentation. I’d love to get feedback on these plans and specifications, which we can edit on the wiki.

1. Docs site – OpenStack needs a central docs.openstack.org site that curates the content from various other sources and gives a good user experience upon landing on it. My goal is to implement this in time for Bexar (February).

2. Official docs – OpenStack needs a way to indicate that a page or site as “official OpenStack documentation” meaning that it is as accurate as we can get it and the procedures have been tested. Again I’d mark this for Bexar.

3. Versioning documentation – We are taking small steps towards a frozen release page/site. For example, you should be able to go to http://swift.openstack.org/1.0/ and get a frozen-in-time site with the developer documentation from the 1.0 release. We can get this done in time for Bexar.

4. Man pages – We need man pages created for nova-manage, nova-compute, and nova-networking. The nova-manage man page is now in the builds but needs editing. It is sourced in doc/source/man from RST files and gets built with the Sphinx docs. This could be done for Bexar.

5. Tutorials – Now that we have virtual boxes and stack on a stick in progress, we need tutorials that are meaningful and simple enough to step through while still giving an impressive demonstration of the power of OpenStack clouds. Here are some ideas for tutorials:

Create a LAMP stack for a web application like WordPress – demonstrate connectivity between virtual machines, describe how to scale as your blog gets super popular (hey, we can dream, right?)
Build your own CDN to serve video content
Academic calculations where you spin up 10 machines for a Mathematica project only for a day or so
Create a news reader application using AMPQ/RabbitMQ

I think we could have one solid, tested tutorial done in time for Bexar with the remaining set for the Cactus release. Any thoughts on how to prioritize these tutorials? Which would be in highest demand?

6. Glance docs – With the Glance implementation still ongoing for Bexar, we need to plan for install and integration docs with the Bexar release.

Let me know your priorities for upcoming releases and we’ll update the specs for the encapsulating blueprint for docs work. The Docs site is the biggest item needing design and architecture, so I’d welcome input and ideas with a heavy weighting towards “Docs site!”

Tags: content documentation howto tutorials

OpenStack Weekly Newsletter (November 20 – 26)

Stephen Spector

November 26, 2010

OpenStack Community Newsletter – November 26, 2010

HIGHLIGHTS

OpenStack.org Web Update
- Events page – http://openstack.org/events/
- Design Summit Page – http://openstack.org/events/openstack-design-summit-2010/

EVENTS

IEEE CloudCom: Nov 30 – Dec 3, 2010 Indianapolis, IN http://2010.cloudcom.org/
Telecom Cloud Conference: December 6-7, 2011 Santa Clara, CA http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/agendas/ca-10/Telecom_Cloud_Agenda.pdf
OpenStack User Group NYC: January 12, 2011; details coming soon
Fudcon: January 29-31, 2011 Tempe, Arizona http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011
O’Reilly Strata: Feb 1 – 3, 2011 Santa Clara CA http://strataconf.com/strata2011
Call for Papers
- Linux Conference Australia 2011 (http://lca2011.linux.org.au/)

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

Meeting Minutes – November 23
- Summary: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-11-23-21.01.html
- Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-11-23-21.01.log.html
- What each Bug status should mean Discussion – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00087.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
- Approved Contributors List – http://wiki.openstack.org/Approved%20Contributors
- Nova Install – http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaInstall
- CLA – http://wiki.openstack.org/CLA
- All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (11/19 – 11/25)

Coming next week: All weekly data available on single spreadsheet with chart for each measurement
Twitter Stats for Week: #openstack 81 tweets; 69 re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets 250
Bugs Stats for Week: 108 Tracked Bugs; 44 New Bugs; 6 In-process Bugs; 2 Critical Bugs; 12 High Importance Bugs; 0 Bugs (Fix Completed)
Blueprints Stats for Week: 133 Blueprints; 5 Essential, 20 High, 13 Medium, 8 Low, 87 Undefined
OpenStack Website Stats for Week: 7,467 Visits, 24,566 Pageviews, 50.62% New Visits
- Top 5 Pages: Home 30.98%; /projects 6.19%; /projects/compute 9.03%; /projects/storage 6.18%; /NovaInstall 4.39%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

Microsoft Supporting Cloud Open Source Code for Hyper-V by Charles Babcock, InformationWeek; http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/hosted/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228300288&subSection=News
50 Open Source Apps You Can Use in the Cloud by Cynthia Harvey, internet.com; http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3914336/50-Open-Source-Apps-You-Can-Use-in-the-Cloud.htm
OpenStack: previste due nuove release per il cloud computing opensource by Stefano Bellasio of HostTalk.it; http://www.hostingtalk.it/news/cloud-computing/7734/openstack-previste-due-nuove-release-per-il-cloud-computing-opensource
评估云服务的六大黄金法则 http://cloud.it168.com/a2010/1124/1129/000001129875.shtml

Tags: Newsletter

OpenStack Design Summit Event Page Launched

Stephen Spector

November 24, 2010

Two weeks ago, the OpenStack community gathered in San Antonio, TX for our first public Design Summit event sponsored by Rackspace. Over 250 attendees from 90 companies and 12 countries spent 4 days planning for the next two product releases as well as providing business development executives a chance to network and collaborate on the OpenStack ecosystem. To ensure that all community members who could not attend are given the opportunity to learn from this event, we have created a new website with all the speakers slides and videos from the General Sessions and Business Track as well as links to the Technical Track overview discussions which were recorded on Etherpad. You can access this site at http://openstack.org/events/openstack-design-summit-2010/.

Also, as the OpenStack community continues to grow, there will be plenty of opportunities to meet a community member at an event near you. To better inform you of upcoming events, we have created a new events page listing events with OpenStack speakers as well as previous events with slides (and videos) from those presentations: http://openstack.org/events/.

Tags: Design Summit Events

OpenStack Weekly Newsletter (November 13 – 19)

Stephen Spector

November 19, 2010

OpenStack Community Newsletter – November 19, 2010

Design Summit Overview Video

HIGHLIGHTS

OpenStack Japan User Group Launch (http://openstack.jp/)
- 150+ developers in Tokyo
- Pictures at http://yfrog.com/izo4jsj & http://yfrog.com/0kh3whj & http://yfrog.com/5o3j4zj & http://yfrog.com/0eivqz
OpenStack Compute Demo Box by LeastResistance.Net – https://leastresistance.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/potential-openstack-compute-demo-box/
OpenStack Design Summit
- Event Feedback Survey – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/openstackdesignsummit2010
- General Session & Business Track Slides – http://www.slideshare.net/event/openstack-design-summit-2010 ;
- Event Review by Cloud-Enabled Space Weather Platform – http://ceswp.ca/?p=529

EVENTS

OW2 Conference: Nov 24-25, 2010 Paris, France – See Bret Piatt http://www.ow2.org/view/Events/OW2AnnualConference2010
IEEE CloudCom: Nov 30 – Dec 3, 2010 Indianapolis, IN http://2010.cloudcom.org/
Call for Papers
- Linux Conference Australia 2011 (http://lca2011.linux.org.au/)

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

Release Code Name (Spring 2011) – CACTUS
ICS Calendar Feed for OpenStack Release Schedule – http://is.gd/hm62Hhttp://is.gd/hm62H
Developer Documentation Awards from Design Summit – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2010/11/openstack-austin-release-award-winners-2/
OCCI Implementations Andy Edmonds – http://andy.edmonds.be/2010/11/occi-implementations/
Freedom vs Time-based Process Discussion
- https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00074.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

Japan OpenStack User Group – Mailing List (http://groups.google.com/group/openstack-ja?pli=1) & Home Page http://openstack.jp/
Rackspace CTO on OpenStack (Video Interview) – http://bartongeorge.net/2010/11/18/rackspaces-cto-on-the-promise-of-openstack/
OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
- Python Development Environment – http://wiki.openstack.org/PythonDevelopmentEnvironment
- Design Summit Summary – http://wiki.openstack.org/BexarDeveloperTopics/Summary
- Web Content Requirements – http://wiki.openstack.org/WebContentRequirements
- All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (11/12 – 11/18)

Twitter Stats for Week: #openstack 127 tweets; 131 re-tweets; all 839 OpenStack total tweets
Bugs Stats for Week: 87 Tracked Bugs; 35 New Bugs; 7 In-process Bugs; 2 Critical Bugs; 11 High Importance Bugs; 17 Bugs (Fix Completed)
Blueprints Stats for Week: 134 Blueprints; 3 Essential, 11 High, 15 Medium, 6 Low, 99 Undefined
OpenStack Website Stats for Week: 8,607 Visits, 30,509 Pageviews, 52.86% New Visits
- Top 5 Pages: Home 28.84%; /projects 5.62%; /projects/compute 8.48%; /projects/storage 5.64%; /NovaInstall 4.20%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

OpenStack Cloud Community Outlines Next Two Releases at First Design Summit – Web Host Industry Review by David Hamilton; http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/111810_OpenStack_Cloud_Community_Outlines_Next_Two_Releases_at_First_Design_Summit
OpenStack Developers Meet To Plan Next Platform Releases – Dr Dobbs by Adrian Bridgwater; http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/228300152;jsessionid=XBLTR5J11LODNQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN
2011云计算发展之十大展望公有云即将来临 -; http://fiber.ofweek.com/2010-11/ART-210004-8420-28432309.html
OpenStack Plans Next Two Cloud Platform Releases at First Public Design Summit – http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101117006618/en/OpenStack-Plans-Cloud-Platform-Releases-Public-Design
Eucalyptus Could Get a Second Chance by Joining OpenStack – ReadWriteWeb by Alex Williams; http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/11/eualyptus-could-get-a-second-c.php
Cloud Reality Check: Wall Street Keeps Rackspace in Perspective – MSPmentor by Joe Pannettieri; http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/11/15/cloud-reality-check-wall-street-keeps-rackspace-in-perspective/
Cloud Predictions for 2011: Gains from early experiences come alive – ZDNet by James Staten; http://www.zdnet.com/blog/forrester/cloud-predictions-for-2011-gains-from-early-experiences-come-alive/549
Seven Reasons Why Companies Are Sitting Out Cloud Computing – San Francisco Chronicle by Mat Rosoff; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/11/17/businessinsider-seven-reasons-why-companies-are-sitting-out-cloud-computing-2010-11.DTL
Azure set to collide with Microsoft channel partners, again – Itworld.com by Kevin Fogarty; http://www.itworld.com/channel/127531/azure-set-collide-microsoft-channel-partners-again
5 Trends to Watch in the Enterprise, Part 1 – ReadWriteWeb by Alex Williams; http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/11/10-trends-to-watch-in-the-ente.php
What We’re Reading About the Cloud by Derrick Harris; http://gigaom.com/cloud/nov-12-what-were-reading-about-the-cloud/?utm_source=earth2tech&utm_medium=specialtopics

Tags: Japan User Group Newsletter

OpenStack Plans Next Two Cloud Platform Releases at First Public Design Summit

Stephen Spector

November 17, 2010

OpenStack™, an open source cloud project with broad developer and commercial support, completed its first public Design Summit last week, which attracted more than 250 people from 90 companies and 14 countries to plan the next two releases, code-named ‘Bexar’ and ‘Cactus.’ Taking place at the Weston Centre in San Antonio, Texas, the four-day event was hosted by Rackspace® Hosting, a founding member of the open source project.

The OpenStack Design Summit featured two separate tracks, one consisting of developer-led sessions to plan the next two code releases, and one for interested users and the partner ecosystem to discuss deployment and commercial opportunities. The Summit also featured an ‘InstallFest,’ where attendees were able to test and document the installation process on a live, on-site environment provided by Dell and powered by the company’s PowerEdge C server line.

Tags: Design Summit

OpenStack Austin Release Award Winners

Anne Gentle

November 16, 2010

Rewards, high fives, kudos, and good old fashioned handshakes. We gave those out and more at our first public OpenStack Design Summit during a break from jamming on Rock Band Thursday night. Chief Architect Rick Clark and I (Content Stacker Anne Gentle) wanted to recognize members of the community who made a significant impact on the Austin release through a variety of contributions. Our community is in its early stages and going through growth spurts, and these members found ways to build OpenStack up during a busy release cycle.

So, please join us in congratulating these community members:

Developer Community Awards

Vish Ishaya – Vish was rewarded for submitting the biggest patch (9,000 lines or so) that also broke the most stuff. We like breakers as long as they can fix what they break.
Alex Polvi – We wanted to recognize all of Alex’s work building community ties and helping us realize the vision of open source for clouds by being a strong community builder.
Jay Pipes – Jay gets recognized for so much Karma in the Launchpad system that Rick is practically suspicious. Just kidding, he has answered questions, submitted patches, fixed bugs, and in general been a huge push behind support for OpenStack from a developer’s perspective.

Content Stacker Community Awards

Stephen Milton – He took the Swift all-in-one instructions and tested and created a multiple-server instruction set that Chuck Thier then edited based on the Rackspace Cloud Files experience. It was a great mini-sprint effort.
David Pravec – He is always helpful answering questions in IRC, plus he created outlines for three manuals for Nova – Administration, Deployment, and Cloud-Users. He also created polished diagrams that are worth 1,000 words. Each.
Anthony Young – We recognize Anthony and the Anso labs team effort to completely refresh the Nova developer documentation and docstrings. Look for the fruits of their labor at nova.openstack.org.

We couldn’t build what we’ve built so far without all the combined efforts of all our developers, supporters, and documentation contributors. Take a minute to give these guys a high five with us.

And then get back to Rock Band.

Photo used with permission from Mark Interrante

Tags: Austin award community developers documentation release

OpenStack Design Summit Community Roundup

Stephen Spector

November 15, 2010

This blog post is an attempt to gather all the information posted about the event including other blog posts, pictures, videos, etc. If you have something not listed on this page please add it to the comments or send me the information and I will update this blog posting.

BLOGS

Rob Hirschfeld

* http://robhirschfeld.com/2010/11/10/openstack-bexar-design-summit-day-1/

* http://robhirschfeld.com/2010/11/11/openstack-day-2/

Rick Clark

* http://dendrobates.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/a-question-about-openstack/

Tim Gaylean

* http://www.h1tman.com/2010/11/2010-openstack-summit-san-antonio-tx/

Itai Frenkel

* http://blog.gigaspaces.com/2010/11/14/one-more-day-with-the-stackers/ (English)

* http://blog.gigaspaces.com/2010/11/12/openstack-summit-notes

* http://www.newsgeek.co.il/open-stack-con-2010/ (Hebrew)

* Watch www.grid.org.il for future OpenStack talks in Israel

Programmer Thoughts

* http://programmerthoughts.com/programming/features-i-would-like-to-see-in-swift/

JB George

* http://jbgeorge.net/2010/11/10/openstack-design-summit-day-1-review/

* http://jbgeorge.net/2010/11/11/openstack-design-summit-day-2-review/

The Loose Couple’s Blog

* http://blog.theloosecouple.com/2010/11/14/decking-the-stack/

SMEStorage Blog

* http://smestorage.com/blog/?p=1158

Rhonabwy

* http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/2010/11/13/nearly-at-the-top-of-that-first-hill/

DataCave

* http://www.thedatacave.com/openstack-a-game-changer-for-the-cloud

VIDEOS

Developer Interviews with Stephen Spector

* http://vimeo.com/user5231339/videos

Zenoss Video Interview with Stephen Spector

* http://community.zenoss.org/blogs/zenossblog/2010/11/11/building-the-open-cloud-with-openstack

Barton’s Blog Video Interview

* Chris Kemp, NASA; http://bartongeorge.net/2010/11/10/talking-to-nasa-cto-about-openstack-cloud-platform/

* David Lempher, PWC; http://bartongeorge.net/2010/11/12/pwcs-cloud-man-bullish-on-openstack/

* Gordon Mangione, Citrix; http://bartongeorge.net/2010/11/12/citrix-all-in-when-it-comes-to-openstack/

* Graziano Obertell, Eucalyptus; http://bartongeorge.net/2010/11/11/chatting-with-eucalyptus-co-founder-about-openstack/

* Rick Clark, OpenStack; http://bartongeorge.net/2010/11/11/talking-to-openstack-chief-architect-rick-clark/

* Joe Tobolski, Accenture; http://bartongeorge.net/2010/11/10/accentures-thoughts-on-the-openstack-cloud-platform/

* PowerEdge C powers OpenStack Install Fest; http://bartongeorge.net/2010/11/10/poweredge-c-powers-openstack-install-fest/

PICTURES

Collection of #openstack images from the web – http://hashalbum.com/openstack?page=1

OpenStack Flickr account – http://www.flickr.com/groups/1574695@N22/

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OpenStack Design Summit – Developer Interviews

Stephen Spector

There are many videos floating around the Internet from last week’s OpenStack Design Summit and I plan to organize them all on a new event page for Design Summit on OpenStack.org. In the meantime, I did several short interviews with developers at the event that are now available for your review. Please turn your volume UP as the Flip video camera doesn’t have the greatest microphone. Also, if you are interested in uploading your videos into the OpenStack Vimeo site please contact me.