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    <h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
    <h3><a href="http://www.openstack.org/summit/san-diego-2012/">Full
        steam towards the OpenStack Summit Fall 2012 now SOLD OUT</a></h3>
    <p>Whether you want to build the software, run it, grow the
      community or just learn more about it, there will be content,
      workshops and design sessions for you to attend at the OpenStack
      Summit, Oct 15-18 in San Diego. <a
        href="http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/">The agenda is
        complete</a>. Stick around Friday for the first OpenStack
      service day, a <a
        href="https://openstack-beach-cleanup.eventbrite.com/">1/2 day
        beach cleanup</a>.</p>
    <h3><a
href="http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/grizzly-design-summit-schedule-posted/">Grizzly
        Design Summit schedule posted</a></h3>
    <p>Aside from the <a
        href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit/Grizzly" target="_blank">Grizzly
        Design Summit</a> sessions, there will be also a room for an <strong>Unconference</strong>,
      open from Tuesday to Thursday. You can grab a 40-min slot there to
      present anything related to OpenStack! We’ll also have 5-min <strong>Lightning
        talks</strong> after lunch on Monday-Wednesday where you can
      talk about anything you want. There will be a board posted on the
      Summit floor, first-come-first-served.</p>
    <h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/10/participating-remotely-to-openstack-summit-2012/">Participating
        Remotely to OpenStack Summit 2012</a></h3>
    <p>If you can’t make it to San Diego but you still want to
      participate in the sessions that will shape the future roadmap of
      OpenStack ‘Grizzly’ you can join the live audio streaming events
      on Webex. Kindly donated by Cisco Webex team (<a
href="http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/event/54ea0d2c841925ba397dea8aece6e72c">users
        of OpenStack themselves</a>), the Webex session will run for the
      whole day from 9:30am to 6:00pm for each of the rooms <a
        href="http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/venue/Emma%20AB">Emma
        AB</a>, <a
        href="http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/venue/Emma%20C">Emma
        C</a>, <a
        href="http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/venue/Windsor%20BC">Windsor
        BC</a>, <a
        href="http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/venue/Annie%20AB">Annie
        AB</a> where the <a
href="http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/overview/type/design+summit">Design
        Summit</a> will happen.</p>
    <h3><a
        href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/8-openstack-questions-answered/">8
        OpenStack Questions? Answered.</a></h3>
    <p><em>GigaOm</em>‘s Barb Darrow <a
        href="http://gigaom.com/cloud/top-8-questions-for-the-openstack-summit/">intrigued
        the cloud community with her 8 questions about OpenStack</a> as
      the next summit approaches. Boris Renski didn’t resist answering
      to all of them.</p>
    <h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/10/how-sina-contributes-to-openstack/">How
        Sina Contributes to OpenStack</a></h3>
    <p>Sina keeps increasing its investments on OpenStack: not only code
      contributions for theFolsom release but also promotion of the
      project all across China and <a href="http://StackLab.org/">StackLab.org</a>
      (since trystack.org is not accessible from China).</p>
    <h3><a
href="http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/10/10/xenserver-6-1-xcp-1-6-and-openstack-folsom/">XenServer
        6.1, XCP 1.6 and OpenStack Folsom</a></h3>
    <p>In other words, what Citrix contributed to Folsom: lots of nice
      things.</p>
    <h3><a href="http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=947">How swift is your
        Swift? Benchmarking OpenStack Swift.</a></h3>
    <p>The OpenStack Swift project has been developing at a tremendous
      pace. The version 1.6.0 was released in August followed by 1.7.4 (<a
        href="http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/Folsom">Folsom</a>)
      just after two months!  In these two recent releases, many
      important features have also been implemented, for example the
      optimization for using SSD, object versioning, StatsD logging and
      much more – many of these features have significant implications
      for performance planning for the cloud builders and operators.
      Zmanda talks about benchmarks for Swift.</p>
    <h3><a
href="http://syedarmani.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-start-contributing-to-openstack.html">What
        prevents you from becoming a contributor to OpenStack.</a></h3>
    <p>Syed Armani asked to participants to Indian OpenStack user group
      meetings <span style="color: #000000;">what prevents them to
        become contributors. Interesting findings, we may want to expand
        the survey.</span></p>
    <h2>Tips and tricks</h2>
    <ul>
      <li>By <a href="http://www.mirantis.com/">Mirantis</a>: <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-nova-network-integration-infoblox-address-management/">Integrating
          OpenStack Nova-network with Infoblox IP Address Management</a></li>
      <li>By <a href="http://www.mirantis.com/">Mirantis</a>: <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/configuring-multi-region-cluster-openstack-swift/">Configuring
          a multi-region cluster for cloud object storage with OpenStack
          Swift</a></li>
      <li>By <a href="http://sebastien-han.fr/">Sébastien Han</a>: <a
href="http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/10/08/delete-a-vm-in-error-state-folsom/">Delete
          a VM in error state (Folsom)</a></li>
      <li>By <a
href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=8f41411877dcf711f49be866d9c7b60e">Boden
          Russell</a>: <a
href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/e93514d3-c4f0-4aa0-8844-497f370090f5/entry/openstack_keystone_workflow_token_scoping?lang=en">OpenStack
          Keystone Workflow & Token Scoping</a></li>
    </ul>
    <h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://openstack.org/" target="_blank">OpenStack
          Summit</a> Oct 15 – 18, 2012 – San Diego, CA</li>
      <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/82917082/"
          target="_blank">Swiss OpenStack user group meeting</a> Nov 15,
        2012 – Zürich, CH</li>
    </ul>
    <h2>Other news</h2>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/">OpenStack Cloud
          Folsom Webcast: Followup on your questions</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/">Grid Dynamics
          OpenStack Team</a>: <a
href="http://syedarmani.blogspot.com/2012/09/welcome-to-openstack-nation-delhi-ncr.html">Altai
          v1.0.1 is outWelcome To OpenStack Nation (Delhi NCR)</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/nccxg3m7aokvsgdq">[Ceilometer]
          Release 0.1 (Folsom)</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/yqvid5aob2kog2lg">OpenStack
          Nova, Keystone and Horizon 2012.1.3 released</a></li>
      <li>OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-10-09: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-09-21.01.html">Summary</a>
        and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-09-21.01.log.html">full
          logs</a>.</li>
    </ul>
    <h2>Chart of the week</h2>
    <p>Evolution of web traffic on openstack.org in the 6 months period,
      from April-September 2012 compared to the previous period October
      2011-March 2012.</p>
    <p><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/openstackorg-folsom.png"><img
          class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3330"
          title="openstackorg-folsom"
          src="cid:part38.03030602.05060200@openstack.org" alt=""
          height="146" width="300"></a></p>
    <p><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
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