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    <h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
    <h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/save-the-date-openstack-summit-spring-2013/">Save
        the Date – OpenStack Summit Spring 2013</a></h3>
    <p><strong>It’s official – the <a
          href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/"
          target="_blank">Spring 2013 OpenStack Summit</a> will be held
        in Portland, April 15-18, at the Oregon Convention Center. </strong></p>
    <p>If you’d like to submit a presentation, panel or workshop, the <strong><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/call-for-speakers"
          target="_blank">call for speakers </a>is now open</strong>
      and will close February 15.</p>
    <h3><a
        href="http://fnords.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/openstack-at-fosdem-13/">OpenStack
        at FOSDEM ’13</a></h3>
    <p>In 3 weeks, free and open source software developers will
      converge to Brussels for 2+ days of talks, discussions and beer. <a
        href="https://fosdem.org/2013/" target="_blank">FOSDEM</a> is
      still the largest gathering for our community in Europe, and it
      will be a pleasure to meet again with longtime friends. Note that
      FOSDEM attendance is free as in beer, and requires no
      registration. OpenStack will be present with a number of talks in
      the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/"
        target="_blank">Cloud devroom</a> in the <em>Chavanne</em>
      auditorium on Sunday, February 3<sup>rd</sup>.</p>
    <h3><a href="http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000011.html">OpenStack
        at linux.conf.au 2013</a></h3>
    <p>On the other side of the world, OpenStack is a protagonist at <a
        href="http://lca2013.linux.org.au/">linux.conf.au 2013</a> in
      Australia. Michael Still, Director of LinuxConf Australia,
      highlights in his blog post the not-to-be-missed talks about
      OpenStack and the closely-related ones. Spoiler alert: I counted
      28 (twentyeight) talks, from Monday to Friday!</p>
    <h3><a href="http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/40186173585">OpenStack
        Board of Directors Talks: Episode 4 with Jim Curry, GM Private
        Cloud at Rackspace</a></h3>
    <p>Jim Curry talks about OpenStack accomplishments, areas worth
      focusing on for improving, the importance of the ecosystem and
      more. As OpenStack Elections near, these interviews of current
      members of OpenStack Foundation’s Board by Rafael Knuth are nice
      to read.</p>
    <h3><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2013-January/001301.html">Http
      </a>OpenStack Foundation 2012 End-of-Year Update<a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2013-January/001301.html">January/001301.html</a></h3>
    <p>Alan Clark, Board Chair, and Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director,
      sent a summary of 2012 accomplishments and the budget for
      2012-2013.</p>
    <h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/6jmhkinft5znkdsz">Introducing
        the Hyper-V Quantum plugin</a></h3>
    <p>Lots of good progress to bring OpenStack to Hyper-V and Windows.
      After the Nova Hyper-V driver, Cinder Windows Storage driver and
      Cloud-Init for Windows guests Cloudbase Solutions just released a
      Quantum plugin for Hyper-V 2008 R2 and 2012.</p>
    <h2>Tips and tricks</h2>
    <ul>
      <li>By <a href="http://www.zmanda.com/blogs">Zmanda</a>: <a
          href="http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=1002">Backward Compatible
          Keystone-based OpenStack Swift</a></li>
      <li>By <a href="http://sebastien-han.fr/">Sébastien Han</a>: <a
href="http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/01/09/openstack-maintenance-mode/">Some
          tips for smooth maintenance in OpenStack</a></li>
    </ul>
    <h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
    <ul>
      <li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/"
          target="_blank">OpenStack Users January 2013 meetup</a> Jan
        19, 2013 – Bangalore, India <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/"
          target="_blank">Details</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana"
          target="_blank">Openstack Developers Meetup</a> Jan 20, 2013 –
        Raanana, Israel <a
          href="http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana"
          target="_blank">Details</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4395344594"
          target="_blank">Chef for OpenStack Hack Day</a> Jan 22, 2013 –
        Boston, MA <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4395344594"
          target="_blank">Details</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/NetApp_Workshop_January_2013"
          target="_blank">oVirt Workshop</a> Jan 22 – 24, 2013 –
        Sunnyvale, CA <a
          href="http://www.ovirt.org/NetApp_Workshop_January_2013"
          target="_blank">Details</a></li>
      <li><a
          href="https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack"
          target="_blank">OpenStack Mini-Conf at Linux Conf Australia </a>Jan
        29, 2013 – Canberra, Australia <a
          href="https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack"
          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>
      <li><a href="http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf"
          target="_blank">OpenStack Mini-Conf at gnuNify</a> Feb 15,
        2013 – Pune, India <a
          href="http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf"
          target="_blank">Details</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/"
          target="_blank">Second Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting</a>
        Feb 19, 2013 – Zurich, Switzerland <a
          href="http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/"
          target="_blank">Details</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/" target="_blank">OpenStack
          Israel</a> May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel <a
          href="http://www.openstack.org/" target="_blank">Coming Soon</a></li>
    </ul>
    <h2>Report from previous events</h2>
    <ul>
      <li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/vietnam-openstack-community-2nd-meeting/">Vietnam
          OpenStack Community 2nd Meeting</a></li>
    </ul>
    <h2>Other news</h2>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/ihmassje6qj3ekly"><strong>Grizzly-2</strong>
          development milestone available (Keystone, Glance, Nova,
          Horizon, Quantum, Cinder)</a></li>
      <li><a
href="http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2013/01/09/four-weeks-four-webinars-dive-deeply-into-cloud-storage-with-ceph-and-openstack.aspx">Four
          Weeks, Four Webinars: Dive Deeply into Cloud Storage with Ceph
          and OpenStack</a></li>
      <li><a
          href="https://github.com/Unidata-SpA/openstack_activeresource">OpenStack
          Ruby (and RoR) bindings implemented on top of ActiveResource</a></li>
      <li>Discussion about <a
          href="http://markmail.org/message/sdt7n7wkvjzki6ue">Developing
          with Scala/Java on OpenStack Swift</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/fg2qbes5ch4jrn5u">New
          regular meeting for Swift</a></li>
      <li>OpenStack Project Meeting: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-08-21.01.html">Summary</a>
        and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-08-21.01.log.html">full
          logs</a></li>
      <li>OpenStack Technical Committee report: Distro & Python
        2.6/3.x support policy and Update on the “Future of Incubation /
        core” joint committee<strong> </strong><a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2013/tc.2013-01-08-20.02.html">Summary</a>
        and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2013/tc.2013-01-08-20.02.log.html">full
          logs</a></li>
    </ul>
    <h2>Welcome new contributors</h2>
    <p>Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>Yuyue Hill</li>
      <li>Kurt Taylor, IBM</li>
      <li>Flaper Fesp</li>
    </ul>
    <p><em>The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn
        about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If
        you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea
        about this newsletter, please leave a comment.</em></p>
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