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    <h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
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            <h3><a
                href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/08/openstack-at-cloudopen/">OpenStack
                at CloudOpen</a></h3>
            <p>OpenStack is a protagonist of CloudOpen, the only
              conference providing a collaboration and education space
              dedicated to advancing the open cloud. Next week, from Aug
              29 to 31 in San Diego there will be plenty of chances to
              hear talks about OpenStack and how it’s shaping the cloud
              industry.</p>
            <p>On Tuesday Aug 28th join the OpenStack community at <a
                href="http://www.thehoppingpig.com/">The Hopping Pig</a>
              for a party!  Food & drinks sponsored by HP, Intel,
              Opscode, Rackspace, SUSE, and Ubuntu. The event will
              immediately follow the official CloudOpen happy hour, and
              is within walking distance of the Andaz. <a
                href="http://openstack-cloudopen2012.eventbrite.com/">Reserve
                your ticket</a>.</p>
            <h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/08/openstack-at-puppetconf-tim-bell-of-cern-to-keynote/">OpenStack
                at PuppetConf: Tim Bell of CERN to Keynote</a></h3>
            <p>PuppetConf is coming up September 27-28 in San Francisco,
              and we’re excited to announce some great OpenStack
              content, including a keynote presentation from Tim Bell of
              CERN!</p>
            <h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/08/openstack-won-unprecedented-popularity-in-asiapacific/">OpenStack
                Won Unprecedented Popularity in Asia/Pacific</a></h3>
            <p>On August 10 -11, the first two-day OpenStack
              Asia-Pacific Conference (OSAC) was held in Beijing and
              Shanghai concurrently. This conference is  jointly
              organized by CSDN (Chinese Software Develop the Net), the
              world’s largest Chinese IT technology community and the
              OpenStack user group (COSUG). The presentations are on
              slideshare: <a
                href="http://www.slideshare.net/HuiCheng2/tag/2012osac">http://www.slideshare.net/HuiCheng2/tag/2012osac</a></p>
            <h3><a
href="http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/08/20/submitting-new-features-to-nova/">Submitting
                new features to Nova</a></h3>
            <p>Mark McLoughlin wrote down a few pieces advice for
              someone submitting a large feature patch to Nova.</p>
            <h3><a
href="http://bcwaldon.cc/2012/08/20/openstack-folsom-glance-overview.html">OpenStack
                Folsom & Glance</a></h3>
            <p>Brian Waldon recaps what landed in Glance in the past
              months. These are most of the features that will make it
              in Folsom release.</p>
            <h2>Tips and Tricks</h2>
            <ul>
              <li>By Derek Higgins: <a
href="http://goodsquishy.com/2012/08/listing-openstack-keystone-credentials/">Listing
                  openstack keystone credentials</a></li>
              <li>By Zmanda Team: <a
                  href="http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=894">Storing
                  Pebbles or Boulders: Optimizing Swift Cloud for
                  different workloads</a></li>
              <li>By Mate Lakat: <a
                  href="http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/08/17/hello-xen-api-host-plugin/">Hello
                  Xen API host plugin</a></li>
              <li>By Derek Higgins: <a
href="http://goodsquishy.com/2012/08/rackspace-cloud-files-from-the-command-line/">rackspace
                  cloud files from the command line</a></li>
              <li>By Alessandro Tagliapietra: <a
href="http://www.alexnetwork.it/2012/08/20/openstack/hetzner-failover-ip-routing-tool-for-openstack.html">Hetzner
                  Failover IP routing tool for openstack</a></li>
              <li>By Brian Waldon: <a
                  href="http://bcwaldon.cc/2012/08/19/using-warlock-and-json-schemas.html">Using
                  Warlock & JSON Schemas</a></li>
              <li>By Everett Toews: <a
                  href="http://blog.phymata.com/2012/08/18/logging-in-jclouds/">Logging
                  in jclouds</a> and <a
                  href="http://blog.phymata.com/2012/08/17/get-a-token-from-rackspace/">How
                  I get a Token from the Rackspace Open Cloud from the
                  Command Line</a></li>
              <li>By <a href="http://blog.chmouel.com/">Chmouel
                  Boudjnah</a>: <a
href="http://blog.chmouel.com/2012/08/17/using-python-novaclient-against-rackspace-cloud-next-generation-powered-by-openstack/">Using
                  python-novaclient against Rackspace Cloud next
                  generation (powered by OpenStack)</a></li>
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            <h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
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              <li><a
                  href="http://openstack-cloudopen2012.eventbrite.com/"
                  target="_blank">OPENSTACK REVOLUTION </a>Aug 28, 2012
                – San Diego, CA <a
                  href="http://openstack-cloudopen2012.eventbrite.com/"
                  target="_blank">RSVP</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>
            <ul>
              <li>Feature freeze period started: we’re on our way to
                Folsom release</li>
              <li>OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-08-21: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-08-21-21.02.html">Summary</a>
                and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-08-21-21.02.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>Alex Yang</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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