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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>
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