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OpenStack Community Newsletter – November 19, 2010

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Design Summit Overview Video

HIGHLIGHTS

• OpenStack Japan User Group Launch (http://openstack.jp/)
  • 150+ developers in Tokyo
  • Pictures at http://yfrog.com/izo4jsj & http://yfrog.com/0kh3whj & http://yfrog.com/5o3j4zj & http://yfrog.com/0eivqz
• OpenStack Compute Demo Box by LeastResistance.Net – https://leastresistance.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/potential-openstack-compute-demo-box/
• OpenStack Design Summit
  • Event Feedback Survey – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/openstackdesignsummit2010
  • General Session & Business Track Slides – http://www.slideshare.net/event/openstack-design-summit-2010 ;
  • Event Review by Cloud-Enabled Space Weather Platform – http://ceswp.ca/?p=529

EVENTS

• 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

• Release Code Name (Spring 2011) – CACTUS
• ICS Calendar Feed for OpenStack Release Schedule – http://is.gd/hm62Hhttp://is.gd/hm62H
• Developer Documentation Awards from Design Summit – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2010/11/openstack-austin-release-award-winners-2/
• OCCI Implementations Andy Edmonds – http://andy.edmonds.be/2010/11/occi-implementations/
• Freedom vs Time-based Process Discussion
  • https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg00074.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Japan OpenStack User Group – Mailing List (http://groups.google.com/group/openstack-ja?pli=1) & Home Page http://openstack.jp/
• Rackspace CTO on OpenStack (Video Interview) – http://bartongeorge.net/2010/11/18/rackspaces-cto-on-the-promise-of-openstack/
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • Python Development Environment – http://wiki.openstack.org/PythonDevelopmentEnvironment
  • Design Summit Summary – http://wiki.openstack.org/BexarDeveloperTopics/Summary
  • Web Content Requirements – http://wiki.openstack.org/WebContentRequirements
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (11/12 – 11/18)

• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 127 tweets; 131 re-tweets; all 839 OpenStack total tweets
• Bugs Stats for Week:  87 Tracked Bugs; 35 New Bugs; 7 In-process Bugs;  2 Critical Bugs;  11 High Importance Bugs;  17 Bugs (Fix Completed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  134 Blueprints; 3 Essential, 11 High, 15 Medium, 6 Low, 99 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  8,607 Visits, 30,509 Pageviews, 52.86% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 28.84%; /projects 5.62%; /projects/compute 8.48%; /projects/storage 5.64%; /NovaInstall 4.20%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• OpenStack Cloud Community Outlines Next Two Releases at First Design Summit – Web Host Industry Review by David Hamilton; http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/111810_OpenStack_Cloud_Community_Outlines_Next_Two_Releases_at_First_Design_Summit
• OpenStack Developers Meet To Plan Next Platform Releases – Dr Dobbs by Adrian Bridgwater; http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/228300152;jsessionid=XBLTR5J11LODNQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN
• 2011云计算发展之十大展望 公有云即将来临 -; http://fiber.ofweek.com/2010-11/ART-210004-8420-28432309.html
• OpenStack Plans Next Two Cloud Platform Releases at First Public Design Summit – http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101117006618/en/OpenStack-Plans-Cloud-Platform-Releases-Public-Design
• Eucalyptus Could Get a Second Chance by Joining OpenStack – ReadWriteWeb by Alex Williams; http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/11/eualyptus-could-get-a-second-c.php
• Cloud Reality Check: Wall Street Keeps Rackspace in Perspective – MSPmentor by Joe Pannettieri; http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/11/15/cloud-reality-check-wall-street-keeps-rackspace-in-perspective/
• Cloud Predictions for 2011: Gains from early experiences come alive – ZDNet by James Staten; http://www.zdnet.com/blog/forrester/cloud-predictions-for-2011-gains-from-early-experiences-come-alive/549
• Seven Reasons Why Companies Are Sitting Out Cloud Computing – San Francisco Chronicle by Mat Rosoff; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/11/17/businessinsider-seven-reasons-why-companies-are-sitting-out-cloud-computing-2010-11.DTL
• Azure set to collide with Microsoft channel partners, again – Itworld.com by Kevin Fogarty; http://www.itworld.com/channel/127531/azure-set-collide-microsoft-channel-partners-again
• 5 Trends to Watch in the Enterprise, Part 1 – ReadWriteWeb by Alex Williams; http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/11/10-trends-to-watch-in-the-ente.php
• What We’re Reading About the Cloud by Derrick Harris; http://gigaom.com/cloud/nov-12-what-were-reading-about-the-cloud/?utm_source=earth2tech&utm_medium=specialtopics