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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>
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