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OpenStack Community Newsletter – October 22, 2010

This 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 email [email protected].

Mark Collier at OpenStack Central

HIGHLIGHTS

• AUSTIN RELEASE – On Time and Available!
  • http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20101021006638/en/OpenStack-Release-Produces-Open-Source-Cloud-Alternative
  • Design Summit
    • 120 Attendees as of Oct 22 at 8:30 am
    • Registration Site Live – http://www.openstack.org/register

• OpenStack is Now Open for Windows Server: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/openstack-is-now-open-for-windows-server-105526653.html
• Chief Stacker Visits Japan week of Nov 15, 2010; contact @jimcurry to schedule time or get his schedule

EVENTS

• Ubuntu Developer Summit – Oct 25 – 29, 2010 Orlando, FL ; OpenStack Party Tuesday night
• Cloud Expo West; Nov 1-4, 2010 in Santa Clara; See Jim Curry (Chief Stacker)
• Cloud Computing Bootcamp at Cloud Expo West ; Nov 1-4, 2010 in Silicon Valley ; See Bret Piatt
• Cloud Computing Expo Japan ; Nov 10 – 12 at Makuhari Messe; See  OpenStack at Midokura booth (http://aki.cloud-japan.jp/en/)
• UP-Con Nov 15-19 Virtual;  Hear Mark Collier http://www.up-con.com/content/open-source-future-cloud
• Defrag 2010 Conference; Nov 16 – 18, 2010 in Denver, CO; See Stephen Spector
• USENIX LISA 2010: Nov 7 – 12 in San Jose, CA See Jay Faulkner  & Todd Deshane at OpenSource and Open Standards-based Cloud Computing Nov 9 at 8:00 pm http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa10/lisa10.html
• Design Summit: Nov 9-12, 2010 in San Antonio, TX
• OW2 Conference: Nov 24-25, 2010 Paris, France – See Bret Piatt http://www.ow2.org/view/Events/OW2AnnualConference2010
• IEEE CloudCom: Nov 30 – Dec 3, 2010 Indianapolis, IN http://2010.cloudcom.org/
• Call for Papers
  • Linux Conference Australia 2011 (http://lca2011.linux.org.au/)

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Weekly Developer Meeting Summary
  • 10/19 : http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-10-19-21.02.html
  • Go/No Go: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2010/openstack-meeting.2010-10-21-21.00.html
  • Mailing List Discussion on Nova in Virtual Appliance –  https://lists.launchpad.net/nova/msg00308.html
    • Ewan Mueller discusses a new Citrix Virtual Appliance using XCP

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• 2010 OpenStack Architecture Board Nominees – http://wiki.openstack.org/2010ArchitectureBoardElections
• OpenStack Website : Updated Pages
  • Compute – http://openstack.org/compute
  • Object Storage – http://openstack.org/storage
  • New Home Page, Community Page, Community Q&A coming next week
  • Flcikr OpenStack Group –   http://www.flickr.com/groups/1574695@N22/
  • OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
    • 2010 Architecture Board Elections http://wiki.openstack.org/2010ArchitectureBoardElections
    • Nova Install/Austin http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaInstall/Austin
    • RabbitmqHA http://wiki.openstack.org/RabbitmqHA
    • I18N Support  http://wiki.openstack.org/I18NSupport
    • More…

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (10/15 – 10/21)

• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 64 tweets ; 95 re-tweets
• Bugs Stats for Week: 164 Tracked Bugs; 36 New Bugs; 6 In-process Bugs;   3 Critical Bugs;  22 High Importance Bugs;   83 Bugs (Fix Completed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week: 73 Blueprints; 10 Essential, 2 High, 16 Medium, 5 Low, 40 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  7,665 Visits, 17,345 Pageviews, 64.98% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages :  Home 44.74% ; /projects 10.35% ; /projects/compute 14.91% ; /projects/storage 10.05%; /community 8.35%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• OpenStack is Now Open for Windows Server: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/openstack-is-now-open-for-windows-server-105526653.html
• OpenStack shows momentum along with code by Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney, ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/openstack-shows-momentum-along-with-code/7598
• OpenStack Cloud Project Remains on Track by Chris Kanaracus, IDG News: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/208346/openstack_cloud_project_remains_on_track.html
• Rackspace OpenStack Cloud Play Gets Major Update, Release by Andrew Hickey, CRN: http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/227900453/rackspace-openstack-cloud-play-gets-major-update-release.htm;jsessionid=XOSrM+51ODJVR0DGcR06ww**.ecappj02
• OpenStack Released Today, by Krish Subramanian, CloudAve: http://www.cloudave.com/6893/openstack-released-today/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CloudAve+
• OpenStack unfurls first full cloud fluffer by Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/21/openstack_austin_release/
• OpenStack Austin and AWS Free Tier by Abel Avram, InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/OpenStack-Austin-AWS-Free
• OpenStack moves forward with Austin release by Shaun Nichols, V3.co.uk: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2272028/openstack-moves-forward-austin
• OpenStack Delivers First Release of Cloud Computing Tech by Sean Michael Kerner, ServerWatch: http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3909376/OpenStack-Delivers-First-Release-of-Cloud-Computing-Tech.htm
• OpenStack gains contributors, major update to Compute project by Alex Handy, SD Times: http://www.sdtimes.com/OPENSTACK_GAINS_CONTRIBUTORS_MAJOR_UPDATE_TO_COMPUTE_PROJECT/By_Alex_Handy/About_OPENSTACK/34826
• Cirrascale Announces Support for OpenStack Cloud Platform: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cirrascale-announces-support-for-openstack-cloud-platform-105443313.html
• OpenStack: An Open Cloud Initiative Makes its 1^st Release by Alex Williams, ReadWriteCloud: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/10/openstack-first-release-out-in.php