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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>
            <ul>
              <li>Kylin CG</li>
              <li>Ronen Kat, IBM</li>
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