{"id":2816,"date":"2012-06-15T16:09:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2012-06-16T10:51:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T15:51:15","slug":"openstack-community-weekly-newsletter-june-8-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-community-weekly-newsletter-june-8-15\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 8-15)"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenStack Community Newsletter — June 15<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Highlights of the week<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Announcing OpenStack Asia\/Pacific Conference 2012<\/a><\/h4>\n

The OpenStack Asia\/Pacific community is hosting a large OpenStack conference on August 10th and 11th, with a main venue in Bejing and a remote participation in Shanghai, hosted by the Chinese OpenStack User Group (COSUG) and CSDN, supervised by CSIP.<\/p>\n

Companies interested in sponsorship opportunities in the area can browse the sponsorship prospectus<\/a> and pick the best options for their budget.<\/p>\n

Speakers are welcome to submit their speaking proposal<\/a>, also in English. If you want to help with the organization of the event you can still join the OpenStack APEC community group<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Meeting To Discuss Next OpenStack Conference And Summit<\/a><\/h4>\n

All people interested in the next OpenStack Summit and Conference, especially former sponsors and coordinators of tracks in past events, are invited to register for the meeting OpenStack Summit & Conference Fall 2012 Planning<\/a>,\u00a0 next Tuesday, June 19 at 10:00 AM CDT. It will be the right time and place to discuss the challenges faced as the events have grown, and potential changes to the format to address them going forward.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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LVM disks support in OpenStack Nova Folsom<\/a><\/h4>\n

GridDynamics implemented LVM disk support functionality (based on previous work for Diablo<\/a>) and successfully delivered it to upstream.<\/p>\n

New LVM image backend can be enabled by setting libvirt_images_type <\/strong>flag to value lvm<\/strong>.For more information on this functionality you can consult the blueprint<\/a> and review code changes here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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swift.common.client library and swift CLI moved to a new home<\/a><\/h4>\n

In order to improve code manageability and consistency across all OpenStack projects, swift.common.client and the bin\/swift CLI moved to a separate repository https:\/\/github.com\/openstack\/python-swiftclient<\/a><\/p>\n

This should be compatible with swift.common.client with only difference being to import swiftclient instead of importing swift.common.client. Send bugs\/feature request under the swift project in launchpad https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/swift\/+filebug<\/a> using the tag python-swiftclient.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Keystone v3 API draft (update and questions to the community)<\/a><\/h4>\n

Joe Heck reporting on the progress for the new API and asking feedback to the community. Join the discussion on Keystone v3 API draft<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Call for testing : nova, glance, keystone and horizon 2012.1.1 tarballs<\/a><\/h4>\n

Mark McLoughlin is ready to release an update to OpenStack Stable branch with over 60 bug fixes since the release in April.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Welcome RHEL\/CentOS\/Fedora to docland!<\/a><\/h4>\n

Anne Gentle pushed a couple of changes to the docs landing page and added a brand new install\/deploy guide for RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora. Comments are now enabled by default on each page and there are now two guides to install OpenStack from scratch: one for Debian\/Ubuntu systems (apt) and one for RedHat\/Fedora\/CentOS (yum).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n

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Other news<\/h2>\n

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Welcome new contributors<\/h2>\n

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:<\/p>\n

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  • Boris Filippov, GridDynamics<\/li>\n
  • Eric Harney<\/li>\n
  • Deevi Lalitha, Persistent Systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u00a0\u00a0The 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

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