[openstack-announce] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 8-22)

Stefano Maffulli stefano at openstack.org
Fri Mar 22 21:08:57 UTC 2013


    Highlights of the week


      Participate in the first OpenStack User Survey!
      <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/03/participate-in-the-first-openstack-user-survey/>

If you are an OpenStack user or have customers with OpenStack 
deployments, please take 10 minutes to respond to our first User Survey 
or pass it along to your network. Our community has grown at an amazing 
rate in 2.5 years, and it's time to better define our user base and 
requirements, so we can respond and advocate accordingly. TAKE THE 
SURVEY <http://awe.sm/r0NkC>


      A new agent management approach for Quantum in OpenStack Grizzly
      <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/a-new-agent-management-approach-in-quantum-for-openstack-grizzly/>

In Folsom, Quantum didn't have facilities to schedule its agents between 
cluster nodes, but the Grizzly release brings the support of a new 
component management approach, which addresses this issue.


      Havana Project Technical Leads

Welcome to the new PTLs for OpenStack's future release, Havana:

  * Nova: Russell Bryant
  * Ceilometer: Julien Danjou
  * Keystone: Dolph Matthews
  * Cinder: John Griffith
  * Glance: Mark Washenberger
  * Heat: Steven Dake
  * Horizon: Gabriel Hurley
  * Oslo: Mark McLoughlin
  * Quantum: Marck McClain
  * Swift: John Dickenson

They were elected democratically by their peer developers according to 
the rules of the OpenStack community to lead the next release cycle. 
Congratulations. The new PTLs will join three more people whose election 
is still ongoing, to form the OpenStack Technical Committee.


      *Moving to open development: OpenStack / Crowbar / Chef on SUSE*
      <http://jaegerandi.blogspot.com/2013/03/moving-to-open-development-openstack.html>

Crowbar was originally developed by Dell engineers, and is now a 
fully-fledged Open Source project involving close collaboration with 
SUSE and others. There are weekly public meetings 
<https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar/wiki/Meetings>, a public mailing 
list <https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar>, a |#crowbar| 
IRC channel <https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar/wiki/IRC-channel>, 
public Trello boards 
<https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar/wiki/Development> and so on. As an 
indication of the project's independent nature, the authoritative 
location for the git repositories has changed from 
https://github.com/dellcloudedge to https://github.com/crowbar, and a 
new homepage <http://crowbar.github.com/>is currently under construction.


      OpenStack Miniconf at PyCon Australia 2013
      <http://aptira.wufoo.com/forms/pyconau2013-openstack-miniconf-call-for-presenters/>

PyCon Australia 2013 will be hosting two one-day miniconfs on *Friday 5 
July* before the main conference proceedings kick off on Saturday 6 
July. Miniconfs are events that focus on a specific community that 
relies heavily on Python, and allows practitioners in those communities 
to explore those topics in a much deeper way than the main PyCon 
conference can allow.

The Call For Presenters for the OpenStack Miniconf is open now and 
closes on 15 April, 2013. To submit a presentation, visit the OpenStack 
Miniconf CFP site at 
http://aptira.wufoo.com/forms/pyconau2013-openstack-miniconf-call-for-presenters/


    Tips and Tricks

  * By Anita Kuno <http://anteaya.info/>: Reviewing an OpenStack Patch
    <http://anteaya.info/blog/2013/03/21/reviewing-an-openstack-patch/>
  * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: Trusts and Role Based
    Access Control for Open Stack
    <http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/03/trusts-rbac/>
  * By Mate Lakat <http://blogs.citrix.com/>: Virtual Hypervisor: how to
    deploy XenServer inside a XenServer
    <http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/03/18/virtual-hypervisor/>
  * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: Grizzly availability
    zones
    <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/03/18/grizzly-availability-zones/>
  * By Yun Mao
    <http://cloudystuffhappens.blogspot.com/search/label/openstack>:
    /How to use the ZooKeeper driver for ServiceGroup in OpenStack Nova
    <http://cloudystuffhappens.blogspot.com/2013/03/zookeeper-and-openstack-nova.html>/
  * By Kashyap Chamarthy <http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/>: OpenStack ---
    nova image-create, under the hood
    <http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/openstack-nova-image-create-under-the-hood/>


    Security Advisories

  * OSSA 2013-007] Backend credentials leak in Glance v1 API
    (CVE-2013-1840)
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-March/000085.html>
  * OSSA 2013-008] Nova DoS by allocating all Fixed IPs (CVE-2013-1838)
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-March/000086.html>
  * [OSSA 2013-009] Keystone PKI tokens online validation bypasses
    revocation check (CVE-2013-1865)
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-March/000087.html>


    Upcoming Events

  * OpenStack Hungary Meeting
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Hungary-Meetup-Group/events/109973362/>
    Mar 25, 2013 -- Budapest, Hungary Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Hungary-Meetup-Group/events/109973362/>
  * Vietnam OpenStack Meeting
    <https://www.facebook.com/events/467317409990701/> Mar 30, 2013 --
    Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Details
    <https://www.facebook.com/events/467317409990701/>
  * 1st OpenStack User Group Nordics meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/95258382/> Apr
    03, 2013 -- Kista, Sweden Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/95258382/>
  * OpenStack Summit April 2013
    <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/> Apr 15 -- 18, 2013
    -- Portland, OR Details <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/>
  * OpenStack meeting in Cologne
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/108876542/> May 04,
    2013 -- Cologne, Germany Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/108876542/>
  * OpenStack DACH Day
    <http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10526716.htm> May 24,
    2013 -- Berlin Fairgrounds Details
    <http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10526716.htm>
  * OpenStack Israel <http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/99146542/>
    May 27, 2013 -- Tel-Aviv, Israel Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/99146542/>
  * OpenStack CEE Day <http://www.openstack.org/> May 29, 2013 --
    Budapest Details <http://www.openstack.org/>
  * OpenStack meeting in Munich
    <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/109700562/> Jun 11, 2013
    -- Munich, Germany Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/109700562/>
  * GigaOM Structure <http://event.gigaom.com/structure/> Jun 19 -- 20,
    2013 -- San Francisco, CA Details <http://event.gigaom.com/structure/>
  * OSCON 2013 <http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013> Jul 22 -- 26, 2013 --
    Portland, OR Details <http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013>


    Reports from past events

  * Event Report: OpenStack workshop Bangalore, India
    <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/03/event-report-openstack-workshop-bangalore-india/>
  * OpenStack and Friends at SCALE 11x
    <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/03/openstack-and-friends-at-scale-11x/>


    Other News

  * Amanda Enterprise 3.3 brings advanced backup management features
    <http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=1053>
  * Report from the Chairman of the Board, Alan Clark: A Pretty Good
    Place to Be
    <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/03/a-pretty-good-place-to-be/>
  * openSUSE 12.3 is out, with OpenStack love
    <http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2013/03/13/openSUSE-12.3-is-out%2C-with-OpenStack-love>
  * Chef 11: Interview with Lucas Welch, Director of Communications at
    Opscode <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/45181547441>
  * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-03-19-21.02.html>
    and full logs
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-03-19-21.02.log.html>


    Welcome New Contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

  * Christopher Yeoh, IBM
  * Scott Devoid, ANL
  * Greg Ball, Rackspace
  * Andy Hill
  * Roman Podolyaka, Mirantis
  * afazekas, Redhat
  * Senhua Huang, Cisco
  * Ilya Kharin, Mirantis
  * Ryan O'Hara, Redhat
  * Michael Kerrin, HP
  * Allan Feid

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