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      <h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
      <h3><a
          href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/openstack-grizzly/">OpenStack
          Grizzly</a></h3>
      <p>Done: OpenStack’s 7th release, called “Grizzly”, is out: thank
        you, the over 500 stackers who contributed and the many more who
        participated in the OpenStack Summit last October where this
        release was planned. This release, more than any before it, was
        driven by users who have been running OpenStack in production
        for the past year (or more) and have asked for broader support
        for the compute, storage, and networking technologies they trust
        and even greater scale and ease of operations. <a
          href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/openstack-grizzly/">Mark
          Collier’s</a> post has a summary of the new features and a
        screencast of the updated OpenStack Dashboard.</p>
      <h4><a
href="http://blog.aaronorosen.com/building-a-multi-tier-application-with-openstack/">Building
          a Multi-Tier Application With OpenStack</a></h4>
      <p>In his blog post <a href="http://blog.aaronorosen.com/">Aaron
          Rosen</a> shows how to build a simple multi-tier application
        on OpenStack, something that is made possible by the new
        features of OpenStack Grizzly: security groups and about
        Load-balancer-as-a-Service (LBaaS).</p>
      <h3><a
href="http://technicae.cogitat.io/2013/04/autoscale-and-orchestration-heat-of.html">Autoscale
          and Orchestration: the Heat of OpenStack</a></h3>
      <p>Duncan McGreggor tells the story of how OpenStack orchestration
        service (codename Heat) is gaining new autoscaling features
        thanks to increased efforts by Rackspace. Following discussions
        at Pycon, Rackspace’s management decided to add two development
        teams to Heat and add some of the features that initially they
        were developing internally. Another good story of different
        companies collaborating inside the OpenStack Community.</p>
      <h3><a
href="http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/2013/04/03/there-will-be-no-reliable-cloud-part-1/">There
          will be no reliable cloud (part 1)</a></h3>
      <p>It’s the eternal debate about cloud and high availability,
        legacy enterprise applications and chaos monkeys. <a
          href="http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/">Hendrik Volkmer</a>
        shares his thoughts, summarised in “Stop wasting your time
        trying to find one”. His suggestion: With all that free time,
        start to build reliable systems on top of unreliable clouds.</p>
      <h3><a
          href="http://fnords.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/grizzly-the-day-after/">Grizzly,
          the day after</a></h3>
      <p>Thierry’s, our fine release manager, wrote his therapeutic
        post-release essay, balancing the excitement of the new release
        and the sadness of all the things that could have done better.
        Put on relaxing music, sit back on the chair and listen like any
        therapist would do.</p>
      <h2>Tips and Tricks</h2>
      <ul>
        <li>By <a href="http://swiftstack.com/">SwiftStack Team</a>: <a
href="http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/04/02/using-cors-with-swift/">Using
            CORS with Swift</a></li>
        <li>By <a href="http://www.stillhq.com/">Michael Still</a>: <a
            href="http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/havana/000001.html">Merged
            in Havana: configurable iptables drop actions in nova</a></li>
      </ul>
      <h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/"
            target="_blank">OpenStack Summit April 2013</a> Apr 15 – 18,
          2013 – Portland, OR <a
            href="http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108730682/"
            target="_blank">Beers / Summit Debrief / Internally
            Promoting OpenStack</a> Apr 24, 2013 – Chicago, IL <a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108730682/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/108876542/"
            target="_blank">OpenStack meeting in Cologne</a> May 04,
          2013 – Cologne, Germany <a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/108876542/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10526716.htm"
            target="_blank">OpenStack DACH Day</a> May 24, 2013 – Berlin
          Fairgrounds <a
            href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10526716.htm"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/99146542/"
            target="_blank">OpenStack Israel</a> May 27, 2013 –
          Tel-Aviv, Israel <a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/99146542/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/" target="_blank">OpenStack
            CEE Day</a> May 29, 2013 – Budapest <a
            href="http://www.openstack.org/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108731562/"
            target="_blank">Building an OpenStack Cloud</a> May 30, 2013
          – Chicago, IL <a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108731562/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/109700562/"
            target="_blank">OpenStack meeting in Munich</a> Jun 11, 2013
          – Munich, Germany <a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/109700562/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://event.gigaom.com/structure/" target="_blank">GigaOM
            Structure</a> Jun 19 – 20, 2013 – San Francisco, CA <a
            href="http://event.gigaom.com/structure/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013" target="_blank">OSCON
            2013</a> Jul 22 – 26, 2013 – Portland, OR <a
            href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
      </ul>
      <h2>Reports from past events</h2>
      <ul>
        <li><a
            href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/vietnam-openstack-meetup-3/">Vietnam
            OpenStack Meetup 3</a></li>
        <li>DreamHost’s collection of presentations from <a
href="http://dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2013/04/02/on-stage-at-pycon-2013/">PyCon
            2013</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/04/3rd-swiss-openstack-user-group-meetup/">3rd
            Swiss OpenStack User Group Meetup</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/47179669042">Interview
            with Cloudscaling’s Eric Windisch on the Simplicity Scales
            engineering blog</a></li>
      </ul>
      <h2>Other News</h2>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="http://cloudifysource.tumblr.com/post/47011535593">Hear
            what’s new in OpenStack technology at OpenStack Israel May
            27</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://engineering.cloudscaling.com/2013/04/announcing-python3-compat-team/">Announcing
            the Python3 Compatibility Team</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-April/007135.html">Announcing:
            OpenStack Security Mailing List </a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-April/007116.html">New
            Reviewday location</a>: <a
            href="http://status.openstack.org/reviews/">http://status.openstack.org/reviews/</a></li>
        <li>OpenStack Project Meeting: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-04-02-21.02.html">Summary</a>
          and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-04-02-21.02.log.html">full
            logs</a></li>
      </ul>
      <h2>Got questions?</h2>
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        go-to destination for OpenStack users.</p>
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