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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/openstack-outreach-program-for-women-accepting-candidates/">OpenStack
Outreach Program for Women Accepting Candidates</a></h3>
<p>OpenStack provides open source software for building public and
private clouds. We are constantly moving and growing and very
excited to invite newcomers to our community. To this end, the
OpenStack Foundation has joined the <a
href="https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen">GNOME
Outreach Program for Women</a>. Join the list of mentors, <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/Ideas">contribute
ideas</a>, apply as intern.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/16/what-was-new-in-libvirt-for-the-openstack-nova-folsom-release/">What’s
new in libvirt for the OpenStack Nova Folsom release</a></h3>
<p>Even if Folsom has been out for a while now, <a
href="http://berrange.com/">Daniel P. Berrangé</a> provided a
little more detail on some of the changes he was involved with
making to the libvirt driver and what motivated them.</p>
<h3><a href="http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/15/692/">Why to
refactor the virt disk API in Nova</a></h3>
<p>When launching a virtual machine, <a
href="http://openstack.org/">Nova</a> has the ability to inject
various files into the disk image immediately prior to boot up.
Nova runs as an unprivileged user, and the guest files to be
changed are typically owned as root. This means all the file
injection commands need to run via Nova’s rootwrap utility to gain
root privileges. It should come as little surprise that this has
already resulted in a <a
href="https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html">security
vulnerability / CVE</a> against Nova. The solution to this class
of security problems is to decouple the file injection code from
the host filesystem. Read more on <a
href="http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/15/692/">Daniel’s blog
post</a>.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/11/14/swift-1.7.5-release/">Swift
1.7.5 Released</a></h3>
<p>Swift 1.7.5 has been released. This release is the work of
twenty-seven contributors and includes several important new
features and bug fixes.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/2012/11/11/making-keystoneclient-python-library-a-little-easier-to-work-with/">Making
keystoneclient python library a little easier to work with</a></h3>
<p>A quick guide to using the python keystoneclient library and some
of its new features, with v2 API examples throughout.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.cloudbase.it/installing-openstack-nova-compute-on-hyper-v/">Installing
OpenStack Nova Compute on Hyper-V</a></h3>
<p>A lot of work went on OpenStack and Hyper-V integration, with the
result of bringing back Hyper-V in the <a
href="https://github.com/openstack/nova" target="_blank">Nova
sources</a> in time for the Folsom release. Get started with
OpenStack and Hyper-V using the installer developed by Cloudbase
Solutions.</p>
<h2>Security Advisories</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://secstack.org/2012/11/cve-2012-4573-cve-2012-5482-authentication-bypass-for-image-deletion/">CVE-2012-4573,
CVE-2012-5482 – Authentication bypass for image deletion</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Tips and tricks</h2>
<ul>
<li>By <a href="http://freedomhui.com/">Hui Cheng</a>: <a
href="http://freedomhui.com/2012/11/how-to-deploy-hadoop-cluster-using-apache-ambari/">How
to Deploy Hadoop Cluster In Openstack Intances Using Apache
Ambari</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://sebastien-han.fr/">Sébastien Han</a>: <a
href="http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/11/09/tip-openstack-retrieve-usage-statictic/">OpenStack
Retrieve usage statictics</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/90700582/"
target="_blank">OpenStack Delhi NCR Meetup</a> Nov 17, 2012 –
Delhi, India <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/90700582/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://aosug.openstack.org.au/" target="_blank">Australian
OpenStack User Group – Brisbane Technical Meetup</a> Nov 20,
2012 – Brisbane and other cities <a
href="http://aosug.openstack.org.au/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=155"
target="_blank">OpenStack China Tour: Nanjing</a> Nov 24, 2012
– Nanjing, China <a
href="http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=155"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/90021782/"
target="_blank">OpenStack Users November meetup</a> Nov 25,
2012 – Bangalore, India <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/90021782/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/87103152/"
target="_blank">OpenStack Israel</a> Nov 27, 2012 – Tel Aviv,
Israel <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/87103152/"
target="_blank">Register</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.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/89610092/"
target="_blank">Pune OpenStack Meetup</a> Dec 02, 2012 – Pune,
India <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/89610092/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://emeaopenstackday2.eventbrite.com/"
target="_blank">EMEA OpenStack Day</a> Dec 05, 2012 – London <a
href="http://emeaopenstackday2.eventbrite.com/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Other news</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://maffulli.net/2012/11/14/mediagoblin-adding-support-to-openstack-swift/">MediaGoblin
adding support to OpenStack Swift</a></li>
<li>Report from <a
href="http://freedomhui.com/2012/11/china-openstack-tour-xian/">China
OpenStack Tour @ Xi’an</a></li>
<li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/yklxhylbsmyjjpx7">Question
about Oslo library versioning</a></li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-13-21.01.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-13-21.01.log.html">full
logs</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Foundation News</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-November/001249.html">OpenStack
Foundation Board Meeting Unofficial Minutes Nov 16</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/02Nov2012BoardMinutes">OpenStack
Foundation Board Meeting Official Minutes Nov 2</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Welcome new contributors</h2>
<p>Celebrating the first patches submitted this month by:</p>
<ul>
<li>Hendrik Volkmer, Cloudbau</li>
<li>Andrew Bogott, Wikimedia Foundation</li>
<li>Tim Daly, Jr, Yahoo! Inc</li>
<li>Darren Worrall</li>
</ul>
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