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OpenStack Community Newsletter – February 25, 2011

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].

Coming to you 1 day early as I am flying back from Korea on Friday.

HIGHLIGHTS

• OpenStack goes to Korea – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/02/openstack-in-korea/
• OpenStack updates Community Web Page – http://openstack.org/community
• Joe Arnold from Cloudscaling, “A Big Step Forward for OpenStack” – http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/a-big-step-forward-for-openstack
• Chris Kemp from Nasa “NASA’s Chris Kemp calls OpenStack the “Linux of Cloud”, and predicts a public cloud future” – http://thepacketrat.com/2011/02/18/nasas-chris-kemp-private-cloud-takes-orgs-90-of-way-to-public-cloud-readiness/

EVENTS

• SCALE 2011: Feb 25-27, 2011: Los Angeles, CA http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale9x/
• Cloud Days Tokyo: March 2 – 3 in Tokyo, Japan http://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp/cloud/2011/index.html
• CeBIT : March 1 – 5 in Hanover, Germany http://www.cebit.de/home
• Open Source Days: March 5 in Copenhagen http://opensourcedays.org/
• PYCON 2011: March 9-17, 2011: Atlanta, GA http://us.pycon.org/2011/home/
• UKUUG Spring 2011 Conference; March 22-24: Leeds, UK http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2011/programme/

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Meeting Minutes – February 22
  • Summary:  http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-02-22-21.01.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-02-22-21.01.log.html

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Korea User Group Web Site – http://www.openstack.or.kr/ & OpenStack Wiki in Korean http://www.openstack.or.kr/wiki/index.php/OpenStack
• OpenStack Community looking for a Technical Trainer to join team – https://rackspace.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?reqid=6091
• OpenStack Conference / Design Summit Program Committee (Apr 26-29)
  • High Level Agenda Proposal – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/01/openstack-conference-design-summit-high-level-agenda/
  • Planning Schedule – http://etherpad.openstack.org/dsignsummit-scheduleapr2011
  • Event Agenda Discussion – http://etherpad.openstack.org/DesignSummitApril2011
• OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges
  • NOVA Install/RHEL6 Notes – http://wiki.openstack.org/NovaInstall/RHEL6Notes
  • Queue Service – http://wiki.openstack.org/QueueService
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (2/18– 2/24)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 29 Active Reviews
  • 167 Active Branches – owned by 46 people & 9 teams
  • 1,684 commits by 58 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • 5Active Reviews
  • 53 Active Branches – owned by 19 people &   teams
  • 191 commits by 10 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack  tweets;  re-tweets; all OpenStack total tweets  ** Looking for new tool to gather this data **
• Bugs Stats for Week:  234 Tracked Bugs; 43 New Bugs; 32 In-process Bugs; 5 Critical Bugs; 23 High Importance Bugs; 74 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  165 Blueprints; 6 Essential, 15 High, 28 Medium, 24 Low, 92 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week: 7,111 Visits, 15,861 Pageviews, 52.90% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 42.07%; /projects 11.73%; /projects/compute 17.23%; /projects/storage 12.12%; /Community 7.56%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• Open Source Cloud Computing Training at Scale 9x by Mark Hinkle; Sys.con Media; http://www.sys-con.com/node/1727037
• SMEStorage Release a Cloud Backup Tool for S3, Google Storage, RackSpace, OpenStack, and Walrus; Press Release; http://www.pr.com/press-release/299668
• A Business Picks Up, Cloudscaling Nabs a New CEO by Derrick Harris; Gigaom; http://gigaom.com/cloud/a-business-picks-up-cloudscaling-nabs-a-new-ceo/
• Yahoo’s open source IaaS could up the ante in cloud services by David Linthicum; InfoWorld; http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/yahoos-open-source-iaas-could-the-ante-in-cloud-services-214
• Accommodating Scale-out Architectures in the Cloud by Arthur Cole; ITBusinessEdge; http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/accommodating-scale-out-architectures-in-the-cloud/?cs=45644
• Internet Pioneer Wants to Take Net Off Planet by Julie Bort; PCWorld; http://www.pcworld.com/article/220181/internet_pioneer_wants_to_take_net_off_planet.html