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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
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<h3><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-September/001091.html">New
OpenStack Foundation Gold Members: Intel, VmWare, NEC</a></h3>
<p>Today, the OpenStack Board of Directors approved the
applications of three companies wishing to become Gold
Members: Intel, NEC and VMware. The factors considered by
the Board included a commitment to helping achieve the
OpenStack Foundation Mission through demonstrated and
potential contribution to the OpenStack community in terms
of code, adoption into product roadmaps, adoption as an
end user, geographic and industry diversity and community
development efforts. Join us to welcome them to the
Foundation.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-September/001059.html">Session
proposals for the Design Summit now open</a></h3>
<p>Differently from previous OpenStack Design Summit and
Confernece, this time the “Design Summit” is a specific
track in the overall “OpenStack Summit” event. It is
different from other tracks, too. Please make sure to read
the <a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-September/001059.html">full
announcement</a> and help make this summit the best
Design Summit ever.</p>
<h4><a href="http://markmail.org/message/hcnyvanvu6pojjxq">Caimito
0.9 – WebDAV frontend </a><a
href="http://markmail.org/message/hcnyvanvu6pojjxq">e</a><a
href="http://markmail.org/message/hcnyvanvu6pojjxq">for
OpnStack Swift Cloud Storage</a></h4>
<p>Caimito is an open source (Apache Software License 2.0)
WebDAV,caching, and content management and delivery server
frontend for cloud storage. Caimito supports <a
href="http://openstack.org/projects/storage/">Openstack
Swift Storage</a> (Rackspace, Softlayer, etc.), and <a
href="http://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon S3</a>. Caimito
also features a REST API in addition to the Web interface
for configuring user access. Caimito is designed with an
event-driven and non-blocking architecture for
Scalability. Caimito is ideal for Hosting and Reseller
environments.</p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/kg3arb4gn57cm4rl">Quantum
vs. Nova-network in Folsom</a></h3>
<p>tl;dr both Quantum and nova-network will be core and
fully supported in Folsom. More details from Quantum and
Nova PTLs on <a
href="http://markmail.org/message/yvkaq7jubab6vkjh">Quantum
vs. Nova-network in Folsom</a>.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/09/06/openstack-xen-and-xenserver-a-match-made-in-heaven/">OpenStack,
Xen and XenServer: a match made in Heaven!</a></h3>
<p>A report from John Garbutt, back from XenSummit in San
Diego. There was lots of OpenStack related news in many
of the CloudOpen sessions, including the announcement from
SUSE that they have an OpenStack distribution that
supports Xen.</p>
<h4><a
href="http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/09/03/xcp-xapi-on-precise-2/">XCP-XAPI
on Precise</a></h4>
<p>The Citrix-Openstack team is already running automated
OpenStack tests against the stable, and the latest
XenServer. As the XCP-XAPI is already available for Ubuntu
systems, the team plans to run the tests against that
platform as well.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/summit/san-diego-2012/">Register
now for OpenStack Summit in San Diego</a></h3>
<p>The OpenStack room rate is now sold out at the Grand
Hyatt. We’ve set up another room block at the Embassy
Suites located across the street. <a
href="http://embassysuites.hilton.com/en/es/groups/personalized/S/SANDNES-OPE-20121014/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG">Reserve
a room</a> at the OpenStack rate.</p>
<h2>Security announcements</h2>
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<li><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-August/000026.html">Horizon,
Open redirect through ‘next’ parameter (CVE-2012-3540)
</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-August/000025.html">Keystone,
Lack of authorization for adding users to tenants
(CVE-2012-3542) </a></li>
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<h2>Tips and tricks</h2>
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<li>By Mirantis: <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/software-high-availability-load-balancing-openstack-cloud-api-servic/">Using
Software Load Balancing in High Availability (HA) for
OpenStack Cloud API Services</a></li>
<li>By Mate Lakat: <a
href="http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/09/06/vhd-to-openstack-using-a-xapi-host-plugin/">VHD
to OpenStack using a XAPI host plugin</a></li>
<li>By Brian Waldon: <a
href="http://bcwaldon.cc/2012/09/05/glance-essex-to-folsom-upgrade.html">Upgrading
OpenStack Glance – Essex to Folsom</a></li>
<li>A paper on handling compromised components of IaaS
with a specific use case in OpenStack. Definitely worth
a read: <a
href="http://secstack.org/2012/09/aryan-taherimonfared-martin-g-jaatun-handling-compromised-components-in-an-iaas-cloud-installation/">Aryan
TaheriMonfared / Martin G Jaatun – Handling
Compromised Components in an IaaS Cloud Installation</a></li>
<li>By Everett Toews: <a
href="http://blog.phymata.com/2012/09/04/jclouds-and-openstack/">Getting
jclouds and OpenStack work together</a></li>
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<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
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<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>OpenStack election of Project Tech Leads is ongoing.
Results will be announced on September 13th <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/TCElectionsFall2012">http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/TCElectionsFall2012</a></li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-09-04: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-09-04-21.02.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-09-04-21.02.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>Matthew Treinish, IBM</li>
<li>lrqrun</li>
<li>Constantine Peresypkin, Litestack</li>
<li>jiangwt100</li>
<li>John Dunning</li>
<li>Duncan Thomas</li>
<li>Brian Rosmaita, Rackspace</li>
<li>Rosario Di Somma, Dreamhost</li>
<li>Peng Yuwei</li>
<li>Mathew Odden, IBM</li>
<li>Ian Wells, Cisco</li>
<li>Dermot Tynan, HP</li>
<li>Dongdong Zhou</li>
<li>Andrew James, HP</li>
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