Community Weekly Review (Oct 28-Nov 4)

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OpenStack Community Newsletter – November 4, 2011 HIGHLIGHTS Second draft of OpenStack Images API 2.0 Proposal https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg05281.html Great turnout at first OpenStack Meetup in Austin, TX http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/10/openstack-austin-meetu/ Internap Announces World’s First Commercially Available OpenStack Cloud Compute Service http://www.internap.com/press-release/internap-announces-world%E2%80%99s-first-commercially-available-openstack-cloud-compute-service/ EVENTS OpenCloud Weekend, Nov 05, 2011 – Sunnyvale, CA http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/39530242/ Cloud Computing Expo, Nov 7-10 – Santa… Read more »

Happy Ada Lovelace Day

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Ada Lovelace day, October 7th, is a day for bloggers to write a story about an inspirational influence in their life in technology. For me, there were two influential woman in my life as an undergraduate chemistry student in the early 90s at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. One was my first college chemistry professor,… Read more »

Documentation Contributors Styling Ts

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Why give your time and efforts to an online community? Researchers like Peter Kollock have identified and studied reasons for people to contribute to online communities. I try to keep the basic principles of online participation in mind for documentation contributors all the time, and find ways to recognize the people making a difference with… Read more »

OpenStack Documentation Blitz

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I had a great idea come across my radar this week – a Documentation Blitz! I’ve been working on case studies for a second edition of my book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, and in one of the case studies from Sarah Maddox at Atlassian, I uncovered a gem of an idea…. Read more »

OpenStack Launches Community Message Boards

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The OpenStack community has launched a new communication tool to better allow prospective and current users to share ideas and solutions to common problems when deploying or using OpenStack technologies. Of course, developers and technologists are more than welcome to join the forum boards to provide answers and add questions of their own. The site… Read more »