{"id":2592,"date":"2012-05-25T16:27:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T21:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2012-05-25T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T21:29:10","slug":"community-weekly-review-may-18-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/community-weekly-review-may-18-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Weekly Review (May 18-25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>OpenStack Community Newsletter &#8212; May 25<\/h2>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\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:\/\/blog.chmouel.com\/2012\/05\/24\/s3-emulation-to-openstack-swift-has-moved\/\">S3 emulation to OpenStack Swift has moved<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"lead\">Following PPB&#8217;s decision of <a href=\"http:\/\/eavesdrop.openstack.org\/meetings\/openstack-meeting\/2012\/openstack-meeting.2012-05-15-20.00.log.html\">May 15 meeting<\/a> the S3 emulation layer to OpenStack Swift has moved to a new home: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fujita\/swift3\">https:\/\/github.com\/fujita\/swift3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chmouel.com\/2012\/05\/24\/s3-emulation-to-openstack-swift-has-moved\/\" target=\"_blank\">[more&#8230;]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmanda.com\/blogs\/?p=774\">Building a Swift Storage Cloud? Avoid Wimpy Proxy Servers and Five other Pitfalls<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The Zmanda team describe six pitfalls to avoid, when choosing components for your Swift Cloud<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmanda.com\/blogs\/?p=774\" target=\"_blank\">[more&#8230;]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/openstack-melbourne-australia-meetup-may-15\/\">OpenStack Melbourne Australia Meetup May 15<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A report from the 2nd meetup of the Melbourne contingent of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/feed\/aosug.openstack.org.au\" target=\"_blank\">Australian OpenStack User Group<\/a>. It was a fantastic night with great speakers and a great group of people who are passionate about OpenStack. There was a mix of people with various OpenStack experience, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nectar.org.au\" target=\"_blank\">NeCTAR<\/a> team who have made contributions to the source, to IT staff from various companies trying to get a handle on the new technology that everyone is talking about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/openstack-melbourne-australia-meetup-may-15\/\">[more&#8230;]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/starter-docs-and-articles\/\">Where would you like to find starter docs and articles?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>The doc team has been discussing ways to ensure we help people find what they seek while still getting high-quality content into the \u201cofficial\u201d documentation. They shared some ideas and are asking for input from our wider community as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/starter-docs-and-articles\/\">[more&#8230;]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dellcloudedge\/crowbar\/wiki\/OpenStack-Essex-Deploy-Day\" target=\"_blank\">May 31: OpenStack Essex Deploy Day<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/openstack.org\/\">OpenStack<\/a> Deploy hack-a-thon focuses on automation for deploying OpenStack Essex with <a href=\"http:\/\/content.dell.com\/us\/en\/gen\/d\/cloud-computing\/crowbar-software-framework\">Dell Crowbar<\/a> and Opscode Chef. This is a day-long, world-wide event bringing together developers, operators, users, ecosystem vendors and the open source cloud curious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dellcloudedge\/crowbar\/wiki\/OpenStack-Essex-Deploy-Day\" target=\"_blank\"> [more&#8230;]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1s9C4EMxIZ55kZr62CKEC9ip7He_Q4_g1KRfSk9hY-Sg\/edit\" target=\"_blank\">Proposal for OpenStack Identity API v3<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Have your say about a broad CRUD based API supporting authentication and authorization needs in OpenStack. Back-end implementations of Keystone may not support all components of the API, hence an API return may be NotImplemented. This is to support Keystone as a programmatic facade to an deployment\u2019s existing authentication and authorization system(s).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1s9C4EMxIZ55kZr62CKEC9ip7He_Q4_g1KRfSk9hY-Sg\/edit\" target=\"_blank\"> [more&#8230;]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/markmail.org\/message\/m4xov6lfnbpnsrg3\">OpenStack Deployments in Scientific Environment<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>CERN is currently targeting a pre-production service based on OpenStack this year and targetting around 15,000 hypervisors spread across two data centres by 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/openstack.markmail.org\/thread\/m4xov6lfnbpnsrg3\" target=\"_blank\">[more&#8230;]<\/a> While Information Sciences Institute of University of Southern California is\u00a0developing GPU, bare metal, and large SMP (think SGI UV) support for<br \/>\nOpenstack, targeting HPC\/scientific computing workloads. <a href=\"http:\/\/openstack.markmail.org\/thread\/fesi3jesmu3qx7gv\" target=\"_blank\">[more&#8230;]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For people interested in discussing OpenStack and academia, <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~openstack-academia\" target=\"_blank\">join the team and mailing list<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h2>Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n<ul>\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>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dellcloudedge\/crowbar\/wiki\/OpenStack-Essex-Deploy-Day\" target=\"_blank\">OpenStack Essex Deploy Day<\/a> May 31, 2012 &#8211; Various, around the world <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dellcloudedge\/crowbar\/wiki\/OpenStack-Essex-Deploy-Day\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/div>\n<\/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>Based on action items resulting from the May 9th F2F a Executive Director Candidate committee is being formed to formulate the criteria, to vet possible candidates for the role and to provide a recommendation to the Foundation board.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/Governance\/Foundation\/EDCandidateCommittee\" target=\"_blank\">[more&#8230;]<\/a><\/li>\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>Help decide the <a href=\"http:\/\/markmail.org\/message\/2dho3wvxj4oevkjm\">new layout of the OpenStack mailing lists<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New Bug Day coming up, June 7 <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/BugDays\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/BugDays<\/a><\/li>\n<li>OpenStack Overview Videos\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/DemoVideos\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/DemoVideos<\/a><\/li>\n<li>OpenStack Project\u00a02012-05-22 <a href=\"http:\/\/eavesdrop.openstack.org\/meetings\/openstack-meeting\/2012\/openstack-meeting.2012-05-22-21.02.html\" target=\"_blank\">meeting summary<\/a> and f<a href=\"http:\/\/eavesdrop.openstack.org\/meetings\/openstack-meeting\/2012\/openstack-meeting.2012-05-22-21.02.log.html\">ull log<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<h2>Welcome new contributors<\/h2>\n<p>Celebrating the first patch submitted this week by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Katherine Elliott, HP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenStack Community Newsletter &#8212; May 25 Highlights of the week \u00a0S3 emulation to OpenStack Swift has moved Following PPB&#8217;s decision of May 15 meeting the S3 emulation layer to OpenStack Swift has moved to a new home: https:\/\/github.com\/fujita\/swift3 [more&#8230;] Building a Swift Storage Cloud? 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