{"id":3649,"date":"2012-12-28T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T21:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2012-12-28T15:19:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T21:19:06","slug":"openstack-community-weekly-newsletter-dec-21-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-community-weekly-newsletter-dec-21-28\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 21-28)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Highlights of the week<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/julien.danjou.info\/blog\/2012\/ceilometer-bug-squash-day-1\">Ceilometer bug squash day #1<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"lead\">What better way to start the new year? The Ceilometer team is pleased <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.openstack.org\/pipermail\/openstack-dev\/2012-December\/004161.html\">to announce<\/a> that it organizes a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/Ceilometer\/BugSquashingDay\/20130104\">bug squashing day on the Friday 4th January 2013<\/a>. You can get started by reading <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/Ceilometer\/Contributing\">how to contribute to Ceilometer<\/a>, from updating the documentation, to fixing bugs. There&#8217;s a lot you can do. Good support for Ceilometer is built into <a href=\"http:\/\/devstack.org\/\">Devstack<\/a>, so installing a development platform is really easy.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.openstack.org\/pipermail\/foundation\/2012-December\/001292.html\">Thinking about the mission of the user committeee <\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Narayan Desai started a discussion about the mission of OpenStack Foundation&#8217;s most important governing body: the User Committee. Any member of the OpenStack Foundation is welcome to chime in and help define the User Committee.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.openstack.org\/pipermail\/openstack-docs\/2012-December\/000618.html\">Resources for translators of documentation<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A thread on the OpenStack Documentation mailing list lead to a summary post on how to get started translating OpenStack Manuals.<\/p>\n<h2>Tips and tricks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>By <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.phymata.com\/\">Everett Toews<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.phymata.com\/2012\/10\/03\/contributing-openstack-support-to-jclouds\/\">Contributing OpenStack Support to jclouds<\/a><\/li>\n<li>By <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.phymata.com\/\">Everett Toews<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.phymata.com\/2012\/09\/04\/jclouds-and-openstack\/\">jclouds and OpenStack<\/a><\/li>\n<li>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stillhq.com\/\">Michael Still<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stillhq.com\/openstack\/000010.html\">Image handlers (in essex)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup\/events\/94227732\/\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota OpenStack: Part 2<\/a> Jan 07, 2013 &#8211; Minneapolis, MN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup\/events\/94227732\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/OpenStack-DACH\/events\/96141772\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenStack DACH Meetup<\/a> Jan 09, 2013 &#8211; Cologne (K\u00f6ln), Germany <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/OpenStack-DACH\/events\/96141772\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2013\/schedule\/track\/cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\">FOSDEM&#8217;13<\/a> Feb 02 &#8211; 03, 2013 &#8211; Bruxelles, Belgium <a href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2013\/schedule\/track\/cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cloud track<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Other news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirantis.com\/blog\/questions-and-answers-about-storage-as-a-service-with-openstack-cloud\/\">Questions and Answers: Storage as a Service with OpenStack Cloud<\/a><\/li>\n<li>OpenStack Project Meeting: <a href=\"http:\/\/eavesdrop.openstack.org\/meetings\/project\/2012\/project.2012-12-18-21.02.html\">Summary<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/eavesdrop.openstack.org\/meetings\/project\/2012\/project.2012-12-18-21.02.log.html\">full logs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Welcome new contributors<\/h2>\n<p>Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Bresnahan, Red Hat<\/li>\n<li>Xing Yang, EMC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bonus Video<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mbcC8Frb_Hc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights of the week Ceilometer bug squash day #1 What better way to start the new year? The Ceilometer team is pleased to announce that it organizes a bug squashing day on the Friday 4th January 2013. You can get started by reading how to contribute to Ceilometer, from updating the documentation, to fixing bugs&#8230;.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-community-weekly-newsletter-dec-21-28\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 21-28)\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,13],"tags":[515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649"}],"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=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}