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<h2>Highlights of the week – Holiday edition</h2>
<p>Happy holidays from the whole team at the OpenStack Foundation.
We wish you a merry time to spend with your beloved ones.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2012/12/21/DevStack-on-openSUSE%2C-or-how-to-quickly-setup-OpenStack-on-openSUSE">DevStack
on openSUSE, or how to quickly setup OpenStack on openSUSE</a></h3>
<p>DevStack is a set of shell scripts to build complete OpenStack
development environments. It is useful to create a small OpenStack
environment that will be used for hacking, testing, etc. and is
therefore primarily used for upstream development. Vincent Untz
got DevStack to work on openSUSE.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.17od.com/2012/12/19/ten-useful-openstack-swift-features/">Ten
Useful Openstack Swift Features</a></h3>
<p>Adrian Smith goes through some of the new features introduced in
Swift 1.7.5 and their implication. If you want to learn about <a
href="http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/misc.html#cors-headers">CORS
support</a>, Etag, Object versioning and other nice features
read his post.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://goodsquishy.com/2012/12/introducing-openstack-packstack/">Introducing
OpenStack Packstack</a></h3>
<p>Derek Higgins developed a tool that is capable of installing
OpenStack in a distributed environment using some of the most
common configurations. Packstack can be used to transform Fedora
17/18, RHEL 6 or CentOS 6 servers into a functional Openstack
Folsom deployment. The tool ssh’s onto each server and apply’s
puppet manifests to set openstack up. On his blog post Derek
outlines how to use his Packstack on Fedora 17.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/a-look-at-individual-membership-in-the-openstack-foundation/">A
look at individual membership in the OpenStack Foundation</a></h3>
<p>It’s no secret that I like numbers and charts. If you like them
too, then David Fishman’s post is a must read for the holidays.
Davide took a snapshot of the membership of the OpenStack
Foundation using the publicly available data. Who are these people
and what are their affiliations? What if anything does it say
about the use and uptake of OpenStack cloud? What doesn’t it say?
And, like any data, what other useful questions does it raise?
Remember that the OpenStack Foundation elections are <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/election/2013-board-election/">coming</a>
and the holidays may be a good time to <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/election/2013-board-election/CandidateList">get
to know the candidates</a> for the Board of Directors.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://martin-paulo.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/earlier-this-month-i-gave-talk-toAn">An</a><a
href="http://martin-paulo.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/earlier-this-month-i-gave-talk-to.ht">
Introduction To OpenStack</a></h3>
<p>Martin Paulo introduced OpenStack to a new group of people. He
collected and published his notes: I believe his work can be very
useful for other OpenStack speakers.</p>
<h2>Tips and tricks</h2>
<ul>
<li>By <a href="http://sebastien-han.fr/">Sébastien Han</a>:<a
href="http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/20/where-does-my-instance-run/">Where
does my instance run?</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://www.cberendt.de/">Christian Berendt</a>: <a
href="http://www.cberendt.de/2012/12/allocation-of-multiple-vlan-ranges-on-one-physical-network/">Allocation
of multiple VLAN ranges on one physical network</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://www.stillhq.com/">Michael Still</a>: <a
href="http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000009.html">Some quick
operational notes for users of loop and nbd devices</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
<ul>
<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>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/"
target="_blank">Minnesota OpenStack: Part 2</a> Jan 07, 2013 –
Minneapolis, MN <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/"
target="_blank">FOSDEM’13</a> Feb 02 – 03, 2013 – Bruxelles,
Belgium <a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/"
target="_blank">Cloud track</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Other news</h2>
<ul>
<li>The new OpenStack Marketing team has its own wiki page <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Marketing">http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Marketing</a>
with good details</li>
<li><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-December/004008.html">Horizon
Hyper-V RDP console access </a></li>
<li>Report from past events:
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/event-report-openstack-day-bangalore-india/">Event
Report: OpenStack Day, Bangalore, India</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.02.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.02.log.html">full
logs</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Welcome new contributors</h2>
<p>Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:</p>
<ul>
<li>Harika Vakadi, Persistent</li>
<li>Ben Andrews</li>
<li>Walter A. Boring IV, HP</li>
<li>Therese McHale, HP</li>
</ul>
<h2>Bonus Video</h2>
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OpenStack Foundation by Mark Collier:<br>
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