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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
<h3>More coverage of OpenStack Summit</h3>
<p>We’ve all been catching some air this week, it seems. Some more
reports from the community:</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://blog.phymata.com/2012/10/22/sdks-and-an-openstack-grizzly-summit-wrap-up/">SDKs
and an OpenStack Grizzly Summit Wrap Up</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://maffulli.net/2012/10/20/back-from-san-diego-openstack-summit/">Back
from San Diego OpenStack Summit</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/2012/10/20/openstack-design-summit-wrap-up-and-links/">OpenStack
Design Summit – wrap-up and links</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=971">Swift @ OpenStack
Summit 2012</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-23-21.02.log.html">Feedback
from Design Summit in the first part of the Project meeting
log</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/10/openstack-summit-beach-clean-up/">OpenStack
Summit Beach Clean Up</a> with great pictures</li>
</ul>
<h3><a
href="http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2012/openstack-synaps-exploration">Inside
Synaps, a CloudWatch-like implementation for OpenStack</a></h3>
<p>A few days ago, <a href="http://www.samsung.com/">Samsung</a>
released the source code of <a
href="https://github.com/spcs/synaps">Synaps</a>, an
implementation of the <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/">Amazon
Web Service CloudWatch API</a> for <a
href="http://openstack.org/">OpenStack</a>. <a
href="http://julien.danjou.info/blog/">Julien Danjou</a>, a
contributor to the <a href="http://launchpad.net/ceilometer">Ceilometer</a>
project, gives a look at this project and how it could overlap
with Ceilometer or other projects like <a
href="http://www.heat-api.org/">Heat</a>.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/why-openstack-doesnt-need-a-linus-torvalds/">Why
OpenStack doesn’t need a Linus Torvalds</a></h3>
<p>As comparing OpenStack with Linux becomes an <a
href="http://www.devx.com/blog/is-openstack-the-linux-of-cloud.html"
target="_blank">increasingly popular exercise</a>, it’s only
natural that people and press articles start to ask where the
Linus of OpenStack is, or <a
href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/102412-openstack-linus-263659.html?hpg1=bn"
target="_blank">who the Linus of OpenStack</a> should be. This
assumes that technical leaders could somehow be appointed in
OpenStack. This assumes that the single dictator model is somehow
reproducible or even desirable. And this assumes that the current
technical leadership in OpenStack is somehow lacking. Thierry
Carrez thinks all those three assumptions are wrong.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/10/preauthorization-in-keystone/">Preauthorization
in Keystone</a></h3>
<p>Sometimes you need to authorize a service to perform an action on
your behalf. Often, that action takes place long after any
authentication token you can provide would have expired.
Currently, the only mechanism in Keystone that people can use is
to share credentials. <a href="http://adam.younglogic.com/">Adam
Young</a> argues: We can do better.</p>
<h3><a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/SDKs">New wiki page: Software
Development Kits</a></h3>
<p>SDKs are a vital part of any ecosystem and we need to start
treating them as such in OpenStack. To do so we need to raise the
profile and legitimacy of SDKs that support OpenStack.</p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/teb4mvtru6ismk7a">Heat
version 7 released</a></h3>
<p>Heat allows you to launch AWS CloudFormation templates on
OpenStack. CloudFormation is a programmable interface and
templating system for orchestrating multiple cloud applications.
This version adds an OpenStack-native ReST API.</p>
<h2>Tips and tricks</h2>
<ul>
<li>By <a href="http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/">Grid Dynamics
OpenStack Team</a>: <a
href="http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/435/">OpenStack
Migration from Diablo to Essex</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://www.mirantis.com/">Mirantis</a>: <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/making-most-of-openstack-compute-performance/">Making
the most of your application performance on OpenStack Cloud</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=141"
target="_blank">OpenStack China Tour</a> Oct 27, 2012 –
Chengdu <a href="http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=141"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/82917082/"
target="_blank">Swiss OpenStack user group meeting</a> Nov 15,
2012 – Zürich, CH <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/82917082/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://openstackinaction3theopenrevolution.eventbrite.com/"
target="_blank">OpenStack in action!</a> Nov 29, 2012 – Paris,
France <a
href="http://openstackinaction3theopenrevolution.eventbrite.com/"
target="_blank">Register</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/" target="_blank">EMEA
OpenStack Day</a> Dec 05, 2012 – London <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Other news</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/GrizzlyReleaseSchedule">OpenStack
Security Group</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/GrizzlyReleaseSchedule">Grizzly
Release Schedule</a> published</li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-23-21.02.html">summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-23-21.02.log.html">full
logs</a>.</li>
</ul>
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