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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 – </a>Gold Member Election Update <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/community/openstack-foundation-board-2012-election-candidates/">2012
Elections</a></h3>
<p>Recently the gold member formation committee met to
discuss the election of directors for the gold members and
agreed on the mechanics and timing of our election. Gold
Members will be holding the election using cumulative
voting the week before the individual member elections.
More <a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-August/001061.html">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-August/001061.html</a></p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-networking-vlanmanager/">Openstack
Networking for Scalability and Multi-tenancy with
VlanManager</a></h3>
<p>Second post by Mirantis about OpenStack networking, using
VlanManager. While flat managers are designed for simple,
small scale deployments, VlanManager is a good choice for
large scale internal clouds and public clouds.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.buildcloudstorage.com/2012/01/can-openstack-swift-hit-amazon-s3-like.html">Can
OpenStack Swift Hit Amazon S3 like Cost Points?</a></h3>
<p>Amar Kapadia tries to answer the question whether a user
creating cloud storage with OpenStack Swift can sell it to
internal or external users at a price competitive to
Amazon S3.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=847">Should You
Consider SSDs for OpenStack Swift Cloud Storage?</a></h3>
<p>Zmanda folks started publishing a series of blog posts
investigating pros and cons of using SSD-based Swift
installations. With an ongoing move in the industry to
move towards <a
href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/flash-data-centers/">building
data centers with SSD based storage</a>, there has been
a lot of interest in the OpenStack Swift community to
consider the faster I/O devices when deploying Swift based
storage cloud, such as the discussions in <a
href="https://answers.launchpad.net/swift/+question/163356"
target="_blank">[1]</a>, <a
href="https://answers.launchpad.net/swift/+question/181977"
target="_blank">[2]</a> and <a
href="https://answers.launchpad.net/swift/+question/159085"
target="_blank">[3]</a>.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/08/06/swift-1.6.0-release/">Swift
1.6.0 Release</a></h3>
<p>The changes highlighted by the team: the bin/swift CLI
client and swift/common/client.py have been moved to the
new python-swiftclient OpenStack project; Swift now
includes the Keystone middleware “keystoneauth”; the
swift-dispersion-report now works with a replica count
other than three. Full announcement. Congratulations to
the team for <a
href="http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/08/06/swift-1.6.0-release/">Swift’s
new release, v. 1.6.0</a> and welcome to the five new
Swift developers: François Charlier, Iryoung Jeong,
Tsuyuzaki Kota, Dan Prince, Vincent Untz.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-August/000020.html">OpenStack
Nova, Glance and Keystone 2012.1.2 released</a></h3>
<p>In the time since the Essex release, the stable release
team has been busy selectively back-porting bugfixes to
the stable/essex branch according to the “safe source of
high-impact fixes” criteria <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch">http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch</a>.
These releases are bugfix updates to Essex and are
intended to be relatively risk free with no intentional
regressions or API changes.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-openstack-cloud/index.html?ca=drs-">Cloud
computing and storage with OpenStack</a></h3>
<p>IBM’s DeveloperWorks published an introductory article
about OpenStack and IaaS in general.</p>
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<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
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<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></li>
<li><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-2012-3447-compute-node-filesystem-injectioncorruption/">CVE-2012-3447
: Compute node filesystem injection/corruption</a></li>
<li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/iu7wnr26l2yclkzp">Call
for Help — OpenStack API XML Support</a></li>
<li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/7m5l42mfwahfwq74">Ceilometer
Project Technical Leader election result</a>: Nick
Barcet is the new PTL</li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-08-07: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-08-07-21.03.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-08-07-21.03.log.html">Meeting
log</a></li>
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<h2>Welcome new contributors</h2>
<p>Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:</p>
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<li>Kylin CG</li>
<li>Ronen Kat, IBM</li>
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