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<h2>Highlights of the weeks</h2>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/openstack-outreach-program-for-women-accepting-candidates/">OpenStack
Outreach Program for Women Still Accepting Candidates</a></h3>
<p>We are constantly moving and growing and very excited to invite
newcomers to our community. To this end, the OpenStack Foundation
has joined the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. The Women in
OpenStack group has already found some mentors for the program and
ideas for projects are flowing in. If you know women that may be
interested in joining OpenStack please tell them to <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/openstack-outreach-program-for-women-accepting-candidates/">read
our blog post</a> with more details. The deadline is approaching
(Dec 3) and we still have place for candidates.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000057.html">OpenStack
Nova, Glance, Keystone, Cinder, Quantum and Horizon 2012.2.1
released </a></h3>
<p>The OpenStack Stable Branch Maintainers Team has been busy
selectively back-porting bugfixes to the stable/folsom branch
according to our “safe source of high-impact fixes” criteria
documented on <a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch">the
wiki page StableBranch</a>. We’re happy to announce the 2012.2.1
release, the first in the series of releases to make available the
bugfixes from stable/folsom. A total of 139 bugs have been fixed
in this release, which is a higher than the usual volume of fixes
in a stable release.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/what-to-expect-from-grizzly-1-milestone/">What
to expect from Grizzly-1 milestone</a></h3>
<p>The first milestone of the OpenStack Grizzly development cycle is
<a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000054.html"
target="_blank">just out</a>. What should you expect from it?
What significant new features were added? With more than 399
bugfixes landing in this milestone, Grizzly-1 contains already
lots of new features. Thierry’s blog post adds details for what
changed in each component.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.matthias-runge.de/2012/11/20/developing-openstack-dashboard-using-fedora/">Developing
OpenStack Dashboard using Fedora</a></h3>
<p>Many developers recommend using <a href="http://devstack.org/">devstack</a>
to work on OpenStack. <a href="http://www.matthias-runge.de/">Matthias
Runge</a> doesn’t recommend that for Dashboard (<a
href="http://berrange.com/">Dan Berrange</a> has an <a
href="http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/20/what-devstack-does-to-your-host-when-setting-up-openstack-on-fedora-17/">article
providing more details</a>). Good news is, at least for
OpenStack’s dashboard, devstack is not required in any case, it
just runs on plain Fedora. Matthias swears that the instructions
provided for <a
href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-09-18_OpenStack">Fedora’s
test day</a> worked great, no rocket science and no engineering
master required.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/20/what-devstack-does-to-your-host-when-setting-up-openstack-on-fedora-17/">What
DevStack does to your host when setting up OpenStack on Fedora
17</a></h3>
<p>DevStack is one of those huge, massive scripts that requires
super user access to your machine. Understanding what it does to
your setup is pretty complex. <a href="http://berrange.com/">Daniel
P. Berrangé</a> did most of the work for us investigating just
what DevStack does to a Fedora 17 host when it is run. Fascinating
read.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/11/17/the-future-of-incubation-and-core/">The
Future of Incubation and Core</a></h3>
<p>Mark McLoughlin summarizes quite well the ongoing discussion to
define the future of Incubation nd Core. The <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/foundation/technical-committee/">OpenStack
Technical Committee</a> and the <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/foundation/board-of-directors/">OpenStack
Foundation Board of Directors</a> have pretty separate sets of
responsibilities and can get on with their work independently. One
exception to that is the inclusion of new projects in OpenStack.
In the coming weeks, members of the two bodies will decide how to
clarify confusion around the term “core project” and what exactly
happens projects who graduate through OpenStack’s Incubation
process. A <a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-November/thread.html#2387">thread
on the openstack-dev mailing list</a> is ongoing and is a great
example of how a mailing list discussion can actually help to
drive a rough consensus while still giving everyone an opportunity
to express their views.<em></em></p>
<h3><a
href="http://buriedlede.blogspot.com/2012/11/driving-100-gigabit-network-with.html">Driving
a 100 Gigabit Network with OpenStack</a></h3>
<p>Argonne National Laboratory is interested in building IaaS cloud
systems that perform similarly to traditional HPC cluster-style
systems for one of their projects. <a
href="https://plus.google.com/111442327943164013992"
target="_top">Narayan Desai</a> reports on the work to validate
the ability of an Openstack system to drive large quantities of
network bandwidth, memory to memory.</p>
<h3><strong><a href="http://bit.ly/Waue30">Go to Australia in
January for an OpenStack day at LCA2013</a></strong></h3>
<p>Being held in January in Canberra, Australia, linux.conf.au is
one of the foremost open source conferences in the world, and is
considered the most prestigious in the southern hemisphere.
Linux.conf.au’s first ever OpenStack miniconf day is being held
Jan 29, and we expect over 200 people will be attending the
miniconf alone, with hundreds more attending the week long
conference. More information is available at <a
href="http://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack">http://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack</a>
and the <a href="http://bit.ly/Waue30">CFP is open</a>.</p>
<h2>Security Advisories</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000055.html">EC2-style
credentials invalidation issue (CVE-2012-5571) </a></li>
<li><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-November/000056.html">Extension
of token validity through token chaining (CVE-2012-5563) </a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Tips and tricks</h2>
<ul>
<li>By <a href="http://www.mirantis.com/">Mirantis</a>: <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/dns-dhcp-service-configuration-openstack-nova/">Working
through DNS and DHCP service configuration issues in OpenStack
Nova</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://swiftstack.com/">SwiftStack Team</a>ç <a
href="http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/11/21/how-the-ring-works-in-openstack-swift/">Video:
How the Ring Works in OpenStack Swift</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://my1.fr/blog">Emilien Macchi</a>: <a
href="http://my1.fr/blog/first-guide-to-deploy-openstack-folsom-on-ubuntu-12-04/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-guide-to-deploy-openstack-folsom-on-ubuntu-12-04">First
Guide to Deploy OpenStack Folsom on Ubuntu 12.04</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://berrange.com/">Daniel P. Berrangé</a>: <a
href="http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/19/walk-through-of-running-openstack-on-fedora-17-using-devstack/">Walk
through of running OpenStack on Fedora 17 using DevStack</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://www.cloudbase.it/">Alessandro Pilotti</a>:
<a href="http://www.cloudbase.it/devstack-on-hyper-v/">DevStack
on Hyper-V</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
<ul>
<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>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/events/92413652/"
target="_blank">OpenStack Ireland December Meeting</a> Dec 06,
2012 – Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Ireland/events/92413652/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://papers.consegi.gov.br/pub/programacao/823"
target="_blank">Palestra: Explorando o OpenStack</a> Dec 07,
2012 – Belem, BR <a
href="http://papers.consegi.gov.br/pub/programacao/823"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157"
target="_blank">OpenStack China Tour: Wuhan</a> Dec 22, 2012 –
Wuhan, China <a
href="http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Other news</h2>
<ul>
<li>Report from past events:
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/australian-openstack-ug-sydney-melbourne-brisbane-tri-city-meetup-201112/">Australian
OpenStack UG – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane Tri-City Meetup
20/11/12</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/report-november-month-openstack-meetup-india/">November
month OpenStack meetup, India</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://wiki.systemsx.ch/display/chosug/2012.11.15+1st+OpenStack+User+Group+Meeting">1st
OpenStack Swiss User Group Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a
href="http://blog.phymata.com/2012/11/20/jclouds-1-5-3-with-cinder-and-rackspace-cbs/">jclouds
1.5.3 Released With OpenStack Cinder and Rackspace Cloud Block
Storage Support</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://russellbryantnet.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/a-new-nova-service-nova-conductor/">A
new Nova service: nova-conductor</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-November/003043.html">Bufunfa
– Chargeback [Billing] for OpenStack </a></li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-20-21.03.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-20-21.03.log.html">full
logs</a>, <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-27-21.01.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-27-21.01.log.html">full
logs</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Welcome new contributors</h2>
<p>Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:</p>
<ul>
<li>Yolanda Robla, Canonical</li>
<li>dekehn</li>
<li>Ken’ichi Ohmichi, NEC</li>
<li>Belmiro Moreira</li>
<li>Anita Kuno</li>
<li>Shrutiranade38</li>
<li>Morgan Fainber, Metacloud</li>
<li>Wangpan, Netease</li>
</ul>
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