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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
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<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/community/openstack-foundation-board-2012-election-candidates/">OpenStack
Foundation Board – 2012 Election Candidates</a></h3>
<p>See the current list of nominees for the OpenStack
Foundation 2012 Board Member Elections who have received
at least one nomination. A candidate must receive at least
10 nominations to appear on the ballot. Any active member
of the OpenStack Foundation can support a nominee or
nominate a new candidate <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/community/openstack-foundation-board-2012-election-candidates/">http://www.openstack.org/community/openstack-foundation-board-2012-election-candidates/</a>.
A candidate must receive at least 10 nominations to appear
on the ballot and must be a member of the Foundation.</p>
<p><strong>The final day to nominate a candidate is Monday
August 6, 2012.</strong></p>
<h3><a
href="http://secstack.org/2012/08/the-rostyslav-slipetskyy-thesis/">Rostyslav
Slipetskyy’s Thesis on OpenStack security</a></h3>
<p>This is a pretty awesome bit of work done by a researcher
in Denmark. I enjoyed reading it and I highly recommend it
as day 1 reading for Infosec professionals and researchers
getting into OpenStack. <a
href="http://www.slideshare.net/oldbam/security-issues-in-openstack">Slides</a>
and you can <a
href="http://nordsecmob.aalto.fi/en/programme/publications/nordsecmob_thesis_2011/thesis_slipetskyy.pdf">download
the full thesis (PDF)</a>.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/APIStability">API
Stability Statement</a></h3>
<p>It is critical to the success of <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStack">OpenStack</a>
that operators be willing to upgrade to new <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStack">OpenStack</a>
releases. All <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStack">OpenStack</a>
APIs use a versioning scheme that is completely
independent from the named releases (Essex, Folsom, etc.).
One obstacle to upgrading to a new <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStack">OpenStack</a>
release is if there are incompatible API changes that
could cause user applications to stop working. Operators
want great new features and APIs to be the only aspect of
the upgrade process visible to their users. Old API
versions should continue to work. More on <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/APIStability">http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/APIStability</a></p>
<h3><a>OpenStack PPB defined “Supporting Project”</a></h3>
<p>There is a new category of OpenStack projects in addition
to Core, Incubated, Library and Gating projects:
“Supporting projects”. The initial list of projects in
this category is available on the wiki, with more details:
<a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Accepted/SupportingProjectDefinition">http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Accepted/SupportingProjectDefinition</a>.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://secstack.org/2012/08/openstack-security-primer/">OpenStack
Security Primer</a></h3>
<p>Matt Joyce introduction to security and OpenStack. He’s
maintaining the blog <a href="http://secstack.org/">http://secstack.org</a>,
now available also on <a
href="http://planet.openstack.org/">http://planet.openstack.org</a>.</p>
<h3>Tips and tricks</h3>
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<li>By <a href="http://sebastien-han.fr/">Sébastien Han</a>:
<a
href="http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/08/03/openstack-auto-assign-floating-ip/">Auto
assign floating IP</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://www.mirantis.com/">Mirantis</a>: <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-networking-single-host-flatdhcpmanager/">OpenStack
Networking Tutorial: Single-host FlatDHCPManager</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc">Mark
McLoughlin</a>: <a
href="http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/07/31/nova-db-poking/">Nova
DB Poking</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://www.alexnetwork.it/">Alessandro
Tagiapietra</a>: <a
href="http://www.alexnetwork.it/2012/07/31/tutorials/build-an-ha-openstack-cloud-glance-setup-part-5.html">Build
an HA Openstack cloud</a> (multiple parts)</li>
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<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
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<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/57643102/"
target="_blank">South Bay OpenStack Hackathon</a> Aug
09, 2012 – Sunnyvale, CA <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/57643102/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://openstack.csdn.net/index.html"
target="_blank">2012 OpenStack APEC Conference</a> Aug
10 – 11, 2012 – Bejing+Shanghai, China <a
href="http://openstack.csdn.net/index.html"
target="_blank">Details</a> <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/75533162/"
target="_blank">Openstack User Group Meetup ( Delhi
NCR )</a> Aug 12, 2012 – Dehli <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/75533162/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/72708142/"
target="_blank">Hobart Meetup – adjacent to PyCon2012,
An OpenStack code dojo!</a> Aug 17, 2012 – Hobart,
Australia <a
href="http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/72708142/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/66911242/"
target="_blank">Australian OpenStack User Group –
Adelaide Meetup with SAGE-AU</a> Aug 28, 2012 –
Adelaide <a
href="http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/66911242/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://openstack.org/" target="_blank">OpenStack
Summit</a> Oct 15 – 18, 2012 – San Diego, CA</li>
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<h2>Other news</h2>
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<li>Security update: <a
href="http://secstack.org/2012/08/cve-2012-3426-keystone-does-not-properly-implement-token-expiration/">CVE-2012-3426
: Keystone does not properly implement token
expiration</a></li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-07-31: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-31-21.02.html">Summary</a>
<a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-31-21.02.log.html">Meeting
log</a></li>
<li>OpenStack PPB Meeting 2012-07-31: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-31-20.06.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-31-20.06.log.html">Meeting
log</a>
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<li>Voted on Agreement on proposed API Stability
Statement <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/APIStability">http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/APIStability</a></li>
<li>Voted on Creating a “supporting” project official
category <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Accepted/SupportingProjectDefinition">http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Accepted/SupportingProjectDefinition</a></li>
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<h2>Stats from traffic on docs.openstack.org</h2>
<p>Statistics taken from the traffic on docs.openstack.org,
from January 1st 2012 to July 31st.</p>
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style="width: 343px"><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/H1-2012-country-visits1.png"><img
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title="H1-2012-country-visits"
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Country/Territory visits to
docs.openstack.org from Jan 1 2012 to July 31 2012</p>
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