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<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/community/openstack-foundation-board-2012-election-candidates/">OpenStack
Foundation Board - Gold Member Election Results</a></h3>
<p>The Gold Members completed their election as planned. DLA
Piper administered the election and has passed along the
results. The eight elected companies and the individuals
they intend to appoint to the board are listed
alphabetically below:</p>
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<li>Cisco – Lew Tucker</li>
<li>Cloudscaling – Randy Bias</li>
<li>Dell – John Igoe</li>
<li>Dreamhost – Simon Anderson</li>
<li>ITRI/CCAT – Dr. Tzi-cker Chiueh</li>
<li>Mirantis – Boris Renski</li>
<li>Piston – Joshua McKenty</li>
<li>Yahoo! – Sean Roberts</li>
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<p>Congratulations to the first members of OpenStack
Foundation Board of Directors.</p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/yioqxntjsjlqyda6">OpenStack
Swift: Where do we go from here?</a></h3>
<p>Swift has many exciting features coming in the OpenStack
Folsom Release this fall, but where do we go from here?
What’s next for Swift in grizzly? Join the discussion with
the developers and give your feedback.</p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/r46uxsblqviqr2j6">The
Return of Hyper-V</a></h3>
<p>It’s back: Hyper-V support is integrated back into Nova
with <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/11276/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/11276/</a>.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://secstack.org/2012/08/an-oldie-but-a-goodie-josh-mckentys-emea-launch-slides/">OpenStack
Security blog: An oldie but a goodie Josh McKenty’s EMEA
Launch Slides</a></h3>
<p>This is a pretty antiquated presentation. Plenty of stuff
has changed in openstack since it was given, for better
and for worse. But it gives you an idea that the origins
of OpenStack were built with security in mind. When at
NASA we had some pretty good security and policy guys
contributing heavily to the sprint planning sessions we
had. The result was a code base that was fairly flexible
when it came to adjusting itself to meet policy
requirements.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/vlanmanager-network-flow-analysis/">Understanding
VlanManager Network Flows in OpenStack Cloud: Six
Scenarios</a></h3>
<p>In a couple of <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/author/psiwczakmirantis-com/">recent
posts</a> Mirantis’ engineer <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/author/psiwczakmirantis-com/">Piotr
Siwczak</a> covered some fundamental concepts of
OpenStack networking, including <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-networking-vlanmanager/">VlanManager</a>
and <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/configuring-floating-ip-addresses-networking-openstack-public-private-clouds/">floating
IPs</a>. This post builds upon such content and aims to
present how traffic flows in different scenarios addressed
by OpenStack.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/08/first-openstack-user-group-meetup-in-delhi-ncr-india/">First
OpenStack User Group Meetup in Delhi NCR, India!</a></h3>
<p>Openstack Delhi NCR chapter started yesterday with our
first meet up. Students, Professors and Corporate entities
attended the meeting.</p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/lltovmmtpr2dksbb">Announcing
proof-of-concept Load Balancing as a Service project</a></h3>
<p>Mirantis in collaboration with Cisco OpenStack team and a
number of other community members, started socializing the
blueprints for an elastic load balancer API service.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.slideshare.net/lzyeval/assign-commit-and-review">Assign,
commit and review: a Developer’s Guide to OpenStack
Contribution</a></h3>
<p>Luo Zhongyue asks for feedback to his presentation at
OpenStack APAC Conference <a
href="http://www.slideshare.net/lzyeval/assign-commit-and-review">http://www.slideshare.net/lzyeval/assign-commit-and-review</a></p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/08/how-i-contribute-to-openstack-series/">How
I contribute to OpenStack series</a></h3>
<p lang="en">Rackspace is running a series of interviews to
the protagonists of OpenStack development. Titled ‘How I
contribute to OpenStack’, it collects insight straight
from key developers on the front lines about how they
became involved in OpenStack and the open cloud, and what
contributions they’ve made.</p>
<p>The first two installments saw <a
href="http://solidfire.com/">SolidFire</a> Software
Engineer <a
href="http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-i-contribute-to-openstack-solidfires-john-griffith/">John
Griffith</a> and <a href="http://www.redhat.com/">Red
Hat</a> Principal Software Engineer <a
href="http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-i-contribute-to-openstack-red-hats-mark-mcloughlin/">Mark
McLoughlin</a>. More to come on <a
href="http://www.rackspace.com/blog/tag/how-i-contribute/">How
I contribute to OpenStack</a>.</p>
<h2>Tips and Tricks</h2>
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<li>By Lorin Hochstein: <a
href="http://lorinhochstein.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/ansible-vagrant-and-openstack/">Ansible,
Vagrant and OpenStack on your laptop</a></li>
<li>By Alessandro Tagliapietra: <a
href="http://www.alexnetwork.it/2012/08/10/tutorials/openstack-force-writethrough-cache-mode-in-qcow2-images.html">Openstack:
Force writethrough cache mode in qcow2 images</a></li>
<li>By the Clouds Lab: <a
href="http://markmail.org/message/gjwza57oniy4uwpk">A
Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying OpenStack on CentOS
Using the KVM Hypervisor and GlusterFS Distributed
File System</a></li>
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<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
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<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/75878692/"
target="_blank">Hack on Chef OpenStack Cookbooks –
Swedish Style</a> Aug 21, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/75878692/"
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 – <a
href="http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/66911242/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/74425192/"
target="_blank">Block Storage Service is Cemented
by Cinder</a> Aug 30, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/74425192/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/77706042/"
target="_blank">OpenStack Swift meetup</a> Aug 30,
2012 – San Francisco, CA <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/77706042/"
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>Nick Lothian published the results of the survey to
discover what tools people are using to manage their
resources across multiple cloud providers:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fifthvertex.com/2012/08/07/cloud-tools-survey/">http://fifthvertex.com/2012/08/07/cloud-tools-survey/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/btxjvsvpg4mv62zy">OpenStack
Nova Meeting notes</a></li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-08-14: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-08-14-21.02.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-08-14-21.02.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>Daryl Walleck, Rackspace</li>
<li>Alessandro Pilotti, CloudBase Solutions</li>
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<td><em>The 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 leave
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