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As we look forward to the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, I wanted to take a moment to review the state of the program. With the close of the Icehouse cycle, the team has achieved a number of exciting milestones:</div>
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<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Marconi's first official, production-ready "1.0" release is now
<a href="http://tarballs.openstack.org/marconi/">available for download</a>. This first release includes a battle-tested MongoDB driver, and production-ready drivers for additional backends are in the works.</font></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Marconi's v1.0 API is stable and ready to code against. </font></li><li><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Basic user and operator docs are <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/developer/marconi/">
now available</a>, and we will be adding tons of new content during Juno.</font></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
<font face="Calibri,sans-serif">A reference client library (written in Python) is now available on PyPI which supports the entire v1.0 API. Support for other languages is available through
<a href="http://developer.rackspace.com/#home-sdks">Rackspace-supported SDKs</a>. </font></li></ul>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Through this program, I’ve had the opportunity to work side-by-side with a fantastic group of people. We have an amazing team culture that values usability, quality, and community. Latest team
stats:</div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">10+ organizations represented</font></div>
</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">5 core reviewers</span></li><li><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">6 interns (representing GSoC, GNOME OPW, Rackspace and Red Hat)</font></li></ul>
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If you will be attending the Atlanta summit, please join us in our <a href="http://junodesignsummit.sched.org/type/marconi">
design sessions</a> (<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Summit/Juno/Etherpads#Marconi">pads</a>), and at the Marconi unconference table. Here are some of the things we’ll be talking about:</div>
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<li><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Integration. </b>We'll be chatting with several programs (swift, horizon, heat, et al.) who have approached us about using Marconi to surface events to end users. We would also like to meet with the Barbican team to discuss
how we can work together to implement message signing.</font></li><li><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Notifications. </b>How can we leverage Marconi as a notifications platform, for pushing queued messages to web hooks, SMTP, SMS, APN/GCM, etc?</font></li><li><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Operational Maturity. </b>What do we need to do to make Marconi super ops-friendly? We'll be talking about monitoring, logging, security, efficiency, and documentation.</font></li><li><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Scaling Individual Queues. </b>How should we handle the situation of a queue outgrowing a single storage partition? How do we best balance hot queues across the partitions?</font></li><li><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Queue Flavors. </b>How can we surface Marconi's ability to assign queues to heterogeneous backend storage partitions to end users, so that they have the freedom to make app-specific tradeoffs such as latency, durability,
cost, etc?</font></li></ul>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thanks to everyone who has helped the program reach this point!</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">If you are going to be in town for the summit, please join me and other members of the Marconi team in celebrating our first official Marconi release! We'll grab some food and hang out in downtown
Atlanta for the evening. We are also getting a group together for a CNN tour before dinner. </div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i><b>Note: </b>If anyone is interested in taking a
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cnn.com/tour/">tour of CNN</a> before dinner, please purchase tickets IN ADVANCE for the 4:20pm tour. Express your interest in
<b>#openstack-marconi</b> so we can get a group together. Thanks! </i></div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Cheers,</div>
<div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Kurt</div>
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