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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
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<h3><a href="http://www.openstack.org/foundation/">The
OpenStack Foundation is here</a></h3>
<p>If you haven’t heard the news, the Foundation is fully
operationally now and <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/community/jobs/?foundation=1">it’s
hiring</a>, too. We celebrated globally with many of the
OpenStack User Groups around the world (some pictures are
in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1574695@N22/">OpenStack
flickr group</a>).</p>
<h3><a
href="http://my1.fr/blog/whats-new-in-openstack-folsom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-new-in-openstack-folsom">What’s
new in OpenStack Folsom ?</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://my1.fr/blog">Emilien Macchi</a> wrote a
summary of what’s coming in OpenStack Folsom. Getting
ready for the OpenStack F release.</p>
<h2><a
href="https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg16869.html">What’s
Up Doc? September 19 2012</a></h2>
<p>Report from Docs land: still over 100 doc bugs, 18
targeted for folsom, 11 of those 18 do not have assignees.
New docs landing pages from <a
href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/11232/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/11232/</a>
should land this week or next prior to the release date.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/09/openstack-governance-elections-technical-committee/">OpenStack
Governance Elections: Technical Committee</a></h3>
<p>The OpenStack community is called to elect the last 3
members of the <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/TechnicalCommittee">OpenStack
Technical Committee</a>. Per section 4.1(b) of the <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Bylaws">OpenStack
Foundation bylaws</a>, the Technical Committee (“TC”) is
a technical meritocracy managing all the technical matters
relating to OpenStack. It replaces the “Project Policy
Board” from the old governance. We have 11 candidates and
the election process started. If you’re a <a
href="https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg16849.html">qualified
voter</a> you have received an email with instructions
on how to vote. Check your spam folders if you haven’t
received any communication .</p>
<h3><a
href="https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg16895.html">Trystack
latest status update</a></h3>
<p>The team is taking small steps to get the TryStack
experience back on track. Nachi Ueno would like assistance
with deploying Compute, Image, and Identity on TryStack.
Contact him to help. Great opportunity to get some ops
chops!</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/09/openstack-china-tour-beijing/">OpenStack
China Tour Launches from Beijing</a></h3>
<p>On September 16, <em>OpenStack China Tour </em>began
its trip from Beijing. It is a series of OpenStack meetups
organized by COSUG and CSDN in some Chinese major
cities(Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Wuhan and Xi’an) in
turn.</p>
<h4><a
href="http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/09/16/globally-distributed-openstack-swift-cluster/">A
Globally Distributed OpenStack Swift Cluster</a></h4>
<p>SwifStack team is working towards evolving Swift into a
single cluster can be distributed over multiple,
geographically dispersed sites, joined via high-latency
network connections.</p>
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<h2>Tips and tricks</h2>
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<li>By <a href="http://sebastien-han.fr/">Sébastien Han</a>:
<a
href="http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/09/19/openstack-play-with-quota/">Openstack:
play with quota</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://my1.fr/blog">Emilien Macchi</a> :
<a
href="http://my1.fr/blog/running-an-openflow-network-with-openstack-quantum-floodlight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=running-an-openflow-network-with-openstack-quantum-floodlight">Running
an OpenFlow Network with OpenStack Quantum &
Floodlight</a></li>
<li>By <a
href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=bb3905a64a08b9d8167502028410a1e8">Yong
Sheng Gong</a>: <a
href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/e93514d3-c4f0-4aa0-8844-497f370090f5/entry/quantum_folsom12?lang=en">Quantum
Folsom</a></li>
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<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
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<li>Help needed to organize the <a
href="http://markmail.org/message/7ridfk4vgilz7slj">OpenStack
devroom for <strong>FOSDEM</strong> 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?MID=135"
target="_blank">OpenStack China Tour #2</a> Sep 22,
2012 – Shenzen, China <a
href="http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?MID=135"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/79142862/"
target="_blank">Puppet Master Pulls Deployment Strings
with Ease</a> Sep 27, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/79142862/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://in.pycon.org/2012/funnel/pyconindia2012/48-openstack-open-source-software-for-building-private-and-public-clouds-written-in-python"
target="_blank">PyCon India 2012</a>, Sept 28-30 –
Bangalore, India, <a
href="http://in.pycon.org/2012/funnel/pyconindia2012/48-openstack-open-source-software-for-building-private-and-public-clouds-written-in-python"
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>OpenStack Folsom RC1 is here</li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-09-18: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-09-18-21.02.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-09-18-21.02.log.html">full
logs</a></li>
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<h2>Welcome new contributors</h2>
<p>Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:</p>
<ul>
<li>Nikola Dipanov, RedHat.com</li>
<li>Arathi, Persistent</li>
<li>Ripal Nathuji, Calxeda.com</li>
<li>Vijaya-erukala, Persistent</li>
<li>Newptone, Sina</li>
<li>Lapgoon</li>
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<h3>Silly entertainment of the week:<br>
openSUSE community welcomes OpenStack Foundation</h3>
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