{"id":2556,"date":"2012-05-18T16:46:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T21:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2012-05-18T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T21:47:28","slug":"community-weekly-review-may-11-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/community-weekly-review-may-11-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Weekly Review (May 11-18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>OpenStack Community Newsletter &#8212; May 18<\/h2>\n<table style=\"background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0; border: none; padding: 0px;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #ffffff; border-bottom: 1px dashed #eeeeee;\">\n<td id=\"user-copy_nl\">\n<h2>Highlights of the week<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/openstack.markmail.org\/thread\/xq624rznvucizt2d\" target=\"_blank\">Decision On Third Party APIs<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"lead\">The PPB in its <a href=\"http:\/\/eavesdrop.openstack.org\/meetings\/openstack-meeting\/2012\/openstack-meeting.2012-05-15-20.00.log.html\">May 15 meeting<\/a> decided that:<br \/>\nAn OpenStack project will support an official API in it&#8217;s core implementation(the OpenStack API). Other APIs will be implemented external to core. The core project will expose stable, complete, performant interfaces so that 3rd party APIs can be implemented in a complete and performant manner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmanda.com\/blogs\/?p=686\" target=\"_blank\">[more&#8230;]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmanda.com\/blogs\/?p=686\" target=\"_blank\">Performance Comparison: Ubuntu 12.04 + OpenStack Swift Essex Release &#8221; by Zmanda Team Blog<\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/app.flashissue.com\/rest\/squarifyImage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zmanda.com%2Fimages%2FUbuntu1204%2BOpenStack%2520Essex%2Flarge_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>The Zmandateam published a cloud backup performance comparison between OpenStack Swift Essex on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and OpenStack Swift 1.46 + Ubuntu 11.10, as well as demonstrated the functionality of Object Store in the OpenStack Dashboard.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmanda.com\/blogs\/?p=686\" target=\"_blank\">[more&#8230;]<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/swiftstack.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/part-power-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Swift Part-Power and Performance &#8211; SwiftStack Blog<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>We work a lot with smaller-scale Swift clusters. Today we were asked a question about a Swift configuration setting which relates to the number of partitions in the ring data structure that are created. Data lives in partitions and it&#8217;s up to an operator to decide how many partitions should be created.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swiftstack.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/part-power-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\">[more&#8230;]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/app.flashissue.com\/rest\/squarifyImage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openstack.org%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F05%2Ftraining_pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" align=\"right\" \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/here-is-what-happens-inside-nova-when-you-provision-a-vm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here is what happens inside Nova when you provision a VM<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the Essex conference summit this past month, Mirantis presented a session on OpenStack Essex architecture. Find the slides for that session.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/here-is-what-happens-inside-nova-when-you-provision-a-vm\/\" target=\"_blank\"> [more&#8230;]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/app.flashissue.com\/rest\/squarifyImage?url=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-BkBjvrwzLJM%2FT7FyNTZdtpI%2FAAAAAAAAAKs%2F4a3R4_VXGiQ%2Fs320%2FGordon%25252BFreeman%25252BSpotted%25252BAt%25252BCERN%25252BOpenStack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" align=\"right\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/technicae.cogitat.io\/2012\/05\/cern-openstack-keep-resonance-cascades.html\" target=\"_blank\">Electric Duncan: CERN, OpenStack Keep Resonance Cascades at Bay<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As previously mentioned, there&#8217;s a growing momentum around ops-oriented participation in the OpenStack community. DreamHost is deeply invested in DevOps, seeing how that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re going to be living in a few months!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technicae.cogitat.io\/2012\/05\/cern-openstack-keep-resonance-cascades.html\" target=\"_blank\"> [more&#8230;]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/mydeveloperworks\/blogs\/e93514d3-c4f0-4aa0-8844-497f370090f5\/entry\/openstack_nova_scheduler_and_its_algorithm27?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">OpenStack nova-scheduler and its algorithm (IBM OpenStack)<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Among the current core projects of OpenStack, Nova project is the core of the cores. Just as described in OpenStack website, Nova is a cloud computing fabric controller, the main part of an IaaS system. There are more than 20 binaries in OpenStack nova project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/mydeveloperworks\/blogs\/e93514d3-c4f0-4aa0-8844-497f370090f5\/entry\/openstack_nova_scheduler_and_its_algorithm27?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\"> [more&#8230;]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/app.flashissue.com\/rest\/squarifyImage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openstack.org%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F05%2Findia1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/indian-user-group-first-meet-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indian User Group first meet up<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The first formal meetup of the Indian OpenStack User Group was held in Bangalore last weekend on the 5th of May. The event was attended by 25 enthusiastic InStackers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/indian-user-group-first-meet-up\/\" target=\"_blank\"> [more&#8230;]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h2>Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxtag.org\/2012\/de\/program\/workshops\/workshops\/vortragsdetails.html?talkid=841\" target=\"_blank\">Workshop: Building a cloud with OpenStack Essex<\/a> May 25, 2012 &#8211; Berlin, DE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxtag.org\/2012\/de\/program\/workshops\/workshops\/vortragsdetails.html?talkid=841\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/IGTCloud\/events\/53864922\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenStack Israel 2012<\/a> May 30, 2012 &#8211; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/IGTCloud\/events\/53864922\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/openstackinaction2productionready.eventbrite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenStack in action 2! &#8211; Production ready<\/a> May 31, 2012 &#8211; Paris, France <a href=\"https:\/\/openstackinaction2productionready.eventbrite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/OpenStack-LA\/events\/60615382\/\" target=\"_blank\">Return of the Ceph Lords<\/a> May 31, 2012 &#8211; Los Angeles, CA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/OpenStack-LA\/events\/60615382\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/CloudTalk\/events\/58242322\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenShift + OpenStack + Fedora = Awesome!<\/a> Jun 05, 2012 &#8211; Redmond, WA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/CloudTalk\/events\/58242322\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch-open.ch\/index.php?id=1034\" target=\"_blank\">Open Cloud and Public Administration<\/a> Jun 19, 2012 &#8211; Bern, Switzerland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch-open.ch\/index.php?id=1034\" target=\"_blank\">Call for papers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/FISL13\" target=\"_blank\">13th International Free Software Forum &#8211; OpenStack Track<\/a> Jul 25 &#8211; 28, 2012 &#8211; Porto Alegre, Brazil <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/FISL13\" target=\"_blank\">Coordination<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h2>\u00a0Other news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~openstack-community\">OpenStack Community Team<\/a> now has a dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/openstack-community\">project<\/a> and attached blueprints. Join the <a href=\"irc:#openstack-community\">#openstack-community<\/a> channel in IRC to help<\/li>\n<li>A blueprint describing an overall PKI approach for securing an <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/OpenStack\">OpenStack<\/a> deployment\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/PKI\">http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/PKI<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Specifications for efficient Metering in OpenStack <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/EfficientMetering\">http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/EfficientMetering<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Refresh the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/ical\/bj05mroquq28jhud58esggqmh4@group.calendar.google.com\/public\/basic.ics\">iCal feed for all OpenStack meetings<\/a> as there a few changes\/additions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<em>The 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 leave a comment.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenStack Community Newsletter &#8212; May 18 Highlights of the week \u00a0Decision On Third Party APIs The PPB in its May 15 meeting decided that: An OpenStack project will support an official API in it&#8217;s core implementation(the OpenStack API). Other APIs will be implemented external to core. The core project will expose stable, complete, performant interfaces&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/community-weekly-review-may-11-18\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Community Weekly Review (May 11-18)\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[515,257],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}