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OpenStack Community Newsletter – March 18, 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].

HIGHLIGHTS

• Cactus Branch Merge Proposal Freeze in Effect – https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg01375.html
• OpenStack Conference / Design Summit Registration Open – http://openstack.org/register
• OpenStack Governance Election Update – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/03/openstack-governance-election-process/
• Cloud and FOSS: How to Unleash Developer Productivity – Black Duck Webinar with Jonathan Bryce (Thursday March 24^th @11:30 am EDT) –  http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/events/2011-03-24
• Rackspace evolves OpenStack Governance – Video Interview with Jonathan Bryce from Barton’s Blog – http://bartongeorge.net/2011/03/16/rackspace-evolves-openstack-governance/

EVENTS

• UKUUG Spring 2011 Conference; March 22-24: Leeds, UK http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2011/programme/
• Cloud and FOSS: How to Unleash Developer Productivity – Thursday March 24, 2011 at 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT; Jonathan Bryce http://ht.ly/4gH4B
• Texas Linux Fest: April 1 – 3, 2011: Austin, TX http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/
• Spain OpenStack Community Meetup – April 14^th in Madrid, Spain

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

• Meeting Minutes – March 15
  • Summary:   http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-03-15-21.01.html
  • Meeting Log: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-03-15-21.01.log.html
• Developer Activity Review (March 4 – March 11): http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/03/openstack-developer-activity-march-4-march-11/

GENERAL COMMUNITY

• Spain User Group Launches with support of StackOps – http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/03/spain-openstack-user-group-launch/
• 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
  • Single node nova installation using Vagrant and Chef – http://wiki.openstack.org/SingleNodeNovaVagrantChef
  • VMware-vSphere-support – http://wiki.openstack.org/VMware-vSphere-support
  • All changes for week at http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (3/11– 3/17)

• Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
• OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
  • 45 Active Reviews
  • 207 Active Branches – owned by 47 people & 9 teams
  • 2,191 commits by 61 people in last month
• OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
  • Active Reviews
  • 45 Active Branches – owned by 19 people & 4 teams
  • 202 commits by 13 people in last month
• Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack  95 total tweets; OpenStack total tweets  311
• Bugs Stats for Week:  346 Tracked Bugs; 47 New Bugs; 34 In-process Bugs; 8 Critical Bugs; 49 High Importance Bugs; 163 Bugs (Fix Committed)
• Blueprints Stats for Week:  165 Blueprints; 5 Essential, 13 High, 19 Medium, 22 Low, 106 Undefined
• OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  10,974 Visits, 24,038 Pageviews, 59.58% New Visits
  • Top 5 Pages: Home 43.85%; /projects 11.96%; /projects/compute 16.10%; /projects/storage 11.29%; /Community 6.67%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

• Dell, Opscode and Rackspace Demo Fully Automated Provisioning of Multi-Node OpenStack Compute Clouds by Rajani Baburajan; InfoTech Spotlight; http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/cloud-computing/articles/154103-dell-opscode-rackspace-demo-fully-automated-provisioning-multi.htm
• Open Source Cloud Computing Platform OpenStack Goes Commercial by Sean Michael Kerner; DevX.com; http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/46506
• Cloud Computing Inches Toward Open Source by Kevin Fogarty; IT World; http://www.itworld.com/server-and-data-center/140529/cloud-computing-moves-toward-open-source-not-much
• Gluster Joins Open Stack by Liz McMillan; Sys.com Media; http://www.sys-con.com/node/1753994
• Cisco buy-in of open source could mean good things for telcos by Susana Schwartz; Connected Planet; http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/2011/03/15/cisco-buy-in-of-open-source-could-mean-good-things-for-telcos/
• NASA CTO Resigns to Launch Startup by Elizabeth Montalbano; Information Week; http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/leadership/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229301105&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
• Wege aus der Sackgasse beim Cloud Computing ; Handelsblatt; http://www.handelsblatt.com/technologie/it-tk/special-cloud-computing/wege-aus-der-sackgasse-beim-cloud-computing/3953178.html
• Облако, открытое для всех: OpenStack – обзор и первые впечатления; http://www.xakep.ru/post/55033/