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      <h3><a
href="http://robhirschfeld.com/2014/05/01/defcore-capabilities-selection/">DefCore
          Core Capabilities Selection Criteria SIMPLIFIED -> how we
          are picking Core</a></h3>
      <p><a href="http://robhirschfeld.com/">Rob Hirschfeld</a>
        summarizes the status of discussions within OpenStack community
        of what is ‘Openstack’. The effort is now summarized in a
        diagram showing the 12 criterias grouped in 4 main categories.
        Better go read Rob’s post, it’ll all make sense.</p>
      <h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/04/announcing-the-oreilly-openstack-operations-guide/">Announcing
          the O’Reilly OpenStack Operations Guide</a></h3>
      <p>O’Reilly has completed the production of the <i>OpenStack
          Operations Guide: Set Up and Manage Your OpenStack Cloud</i>.
        You can get your bits-n-bytes copy at <a
          href="http://docs.openstack.org/ops/">http://docs.openstack.org/ops/</a>
        or order a dead-tree version on the <a
          href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032625.do">O’Reilly
          site</a>.</p>
      <h3><a
href="http://cloudarchitectmusings.com/2014/04/28/what-it-means-to-be-in-the-openstack-community-one-members-take/">What
          It Means To Be In The OpenStack Community (One Member’s Take)</a></h3>
      <p>What is <a href="http://cloudarchitectmusings.com/">Kenneth
          Hui</a>, Rackspace Technology Evangelist, deeply committed
        member of OpenStack, doing at a CloudStack conference? Read his
        blog post to find out what it means to be a good citizen of a
        community.</p>
      <h3><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-April/000229.html">Results
          of the TC Election </a></h3>
      <p>Please join me in congratulating the 7 newly elected members of
        the TC: Thierry Carrez, Jay Pipes, Vishvananda Ishaya, Michael
        Still, Jim Blair, Mark McClain, Devananda van der Veen. Full
        results: <a
href="http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_d34934c9fd1f6282">Full
          results</a>.</p>
      <h2>The road to Juno Summit – Atlanta 2014</h2>
      <ul>
        <li>Applying for Visa? Looking for accommodation in Atlanta?
          Visit <a href="http://openstack.org/summit">http://openstack.org/summit</a></li>
        <li>Check the official <a
            href="http://openstacksummitmay2014atlanta.sched.org/"
            target="_blank">agenda</a></li>
      </ul>
      <h2>Tips ‘n Tricks</h2>
      <ul>
        <li>By <a href="http://assafmuller.wordpress.com/">Assaf Muller</a>:
          <a
href="http://assafmuller.wordpress.com/2014/05/02/introduction-to-neutron/">Introduction
            to Neutron</a></li>
        <li>By <a href="http://trickycloud.wordpress.com/">Ramon Acedo</a>:
          <a
href="http://trickycloud.wordpress.com/2014/05/02/multiple-private-networks-with-open-vswitch-gre-tunnels-and-libvirt/">Multiple
            Private Networks with Open vSwitch GRE Tunnels and Libvirt</a></li>
        <li>By <a
href="http://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab/manage-instance-startup-order-in-openstack-heat-templates/">dudo</a>:
          <a
href="http://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab/manage-instance-startup-order-in-openstack-heat-templates/">Manage
            instance startup order in OpenStack Heat Templates</a></li>
        <li>By <a href="http://dachary.org/">Loïc Dachary</a>: <a
            href="http://dachary.org/?p=2948">Two minor pitfalls when
            upgrading Havana stable</a> and <a
            href="http://dachary.org/?p=2939">Resetting an instance
            {power,vm,task}_state in Havana</a></li>
        <li>By <a href="https://dague.net/">Sean Dague</a>: <a
href="https://dague.net/2014/04/30/helpful-gerrit-queries-gerrit-2-8-edition/">Helpful
            Gerrit Queries (Gerrit 2.8 edition)</a></li>
        <li>By <a href="http://robhirschfeld.com/">Rob Hirschfeld</a>:
          <a
            href="http://robhirschfeld.com/2014/04/29/openops-success-factors/">Success
            Factors of Operating Open Source Infrastructure [Series
            Intro]</a> and <a
            href="http://robhirschfeld.com/2014/04/29/reference-deployments/">Reference
            Deployments are Critical [2/4 series on Operating Open
            Source Infrastructure]</a></li>
        <li>By <a
href="http://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab/managing-hosts-in-a-running-openstack-environment/">Piyush
            Harsh</a>: <a
href="http://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab/managing-hosts-in-a-running-openstack-environment/">Managing
            hosts in a running OpenStack environment</a></li>
        <li>By <a href="https://blog-nkinder.rhcloud.com/">Nathan
            Kinder</a>: <a
            href="https://blog-nkinder.rhcloud.com/?p=62">Secure
            messaging with Kite</a></li>
        <li>By <a
href="http://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab/getting-started-with-openshift-and-openstack/">Andy
            Edmonds</a>: <a
href="http://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab/getting-started-with-openshift-and-openstack/">Getting
            Started with OpenShift and OpenStack</a></li>
      </ul>
      <h2>Reports from Previous Events</h2>
      <ul>
        <li><a
            href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ckhqrki6iepg12vkqk5vnt7ijd0">What’s
            new in the OpenStack Heat Icehouse release</a></li>
        <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XPa_d2XnWY">Asia
            Pacific: How to launch, run & grow OpenStack User Groups
          </a></li>
      </ul>
      <h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="http://softwarelivre.org/fisl15" target="_blank">OpenStack
            Brasil User Group Meeting @ FISL15</a> May 07 – 10, 2014 –
          Porto Alegre, Brasil <a
            href="http://softwarelivre.org/fisl15" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2014/en/#openstack"
            target="_blank">OpenStack DACH Day at LinuxTag 2014</a> May
          09, 2014 – Berlin, Germany <a
            href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2014/en/#openstack"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/"
            target="_blank">OpenStack Summit May 2014</a> May 12 – 16,
          2014 – Atlanta, GA <a
            href="http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/" target="_blank">SFBay
            OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO</a> May 15, 2014 – <a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/data-center/"
            target="_blank">Gartner IT Infrastructure Operations &
            Data Center Summit</a> May 21 – 22, 2014 – Sydney, Australia
          <a
            href="http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/data-center/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://www.nycresistor.com/2014/04/17/openstack-study-group-may-21/"
            target="_blank">OpenStack Study Group</a> May 21, 2014 –
          Brooklyn, NY <a
href="http://www.nycresistor.com/2014/04/17/openstack-study-group-may-21/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.openstackinaction.fr/en/"
            target="_blank">OpenStack in Action</a> May 28, 2014 –
          Paris, France <a href="http://www.openstackinaction.fr/en/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/openstack-cee-day-2014-tickets-11161407069?aff=openstack"
            target="_blank">OpenStack CEE Day </a> May 28, 2014 –
          Budapest, Hungary <a
href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/openstack-cee-day-2014-tickets-11161407069?aff=openstack"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/" target="_blank">SFBay
            OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO</a> May 29, 2014 – <a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/176817882/"
            target="_blank">#1 OpenStack Day</a> May 30, 2014 – Milan,
          Italy <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/176817882/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/157265772/"
            target="_blank">OpenStack Israel Event</a> Jun 02, 2014 –
          Herzliya, Israel <a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/157265772/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.eventbooking.uk.com/openstack/index.php"
            target="_blank">OpenStack UK Day in London</a> Jun 04, 2014
          – London, UK <a
            href="http://www.eventbooking.uk.com/openstack/index.php"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/123227662/"
            target="_blank">SFBay Meetup – Beginner track</a> Jun 05,
          2014 – Sunnyvale, CA <a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/123227662/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/" target="_blank">SFBay
            OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO</a> Jun 12, 2014 – <a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://cloudwf.com/" target="_blank">Cloud World
            Forum</a> Jun 17 – 18, 2014 – London, UK <a
            href="http://cloudwf.com/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://cloudwf.com/" target="_blank">Cloud World
            Forum</a> Jun 17 – 18, 2014 – London, UK <a
            href="http://cloudwf.com/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/150932472/"
            target="_blank">SFBay Meetup – Beginner track</a> Jul 03,
          2014 – Sunnyvale, CA <a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/150932472/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014" target="_blank">OSCON</a>
          Jul 20 – 24, 2014 – Portland, Oregon <a
            href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/150932532/"
            target="_blank">SFBay Meetup – Beginner track</a> Aug 07,
          2014 – Sunnyvale, CA <a
            href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/150932532/"
            target="_blank">Details</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://openstack.org/summit" target="_blank">OpenStack
            Summit November 2014</a> Nov 03 – 08, 2014 – Paris, France <a
            href="http://openstack.org/summit" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
      </ul>
      <h2>Other News</h2>
      <ul>
        <li><a
href="http://redhatstackblog.redhat.com/2014/05/02/openstack-icehouse-and-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-available-now/">OpenStack,
            Icehouse and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 – Available Now</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247998/Oracle_adds_OpenStack_to_updated_Solaris?source=rss_latest_content">Oracle
            adds OpenStack to updated Solaris</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://blog.seader.us/2014/04/updated-suse-cloud-3-admin-appliance_25.html">Updated:
            SUSE Cloud 3 Admin Appliance 1.2.0 available</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://www.rackspace.com/blog/project-solum-goes-full-steam-ahead-to-milestone-1/">Project
            Solum Goes Full Steam Ahead To Milestone 1</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://cloudifysource.tumblr.com/post/84132078901">#OpenStack
            Israel Podcast – Episode 9 is out!</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab/nagios-ceilometer-integration-new-plugin-available/">Nagios
            / Ceilometer integration: new plugin available</a></li>
        <li><a
href="https://www.berrange.com/posts/2014/05/02/improving-libvirt-firewall-performance/">Improving
            libvirt firewall performance</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://www.rackspace.com/blog/why-we-craft-openstack-featuring-rackspace-software-development-manager-glen-campbell/">Why
            We Craft OpenStack (Featuring Rackspace Software Development
            Manager Glen Campbell)</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://www.rackspace.com/blog/why-we-craft-openstack-featuring-rackspace-principal-engineer-chuck-thier/">Why
            We Craft OpenStack (Featuring Rackspace Principal Engineer
            Chuck Thier)</a></li>
        <li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/05/5926/">Open
            Mic Spotlight: Lucas Gomes</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://robhirschfeld.com/2014/05/01/networking-in-cloud-1/">Networking
            in Cloud Environments, SDN, NFV, and why it matters [part 1
            of 2]</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://bodenr.blogspot.com/2014/05/kvm-and-docker-lxc-benchmarking-with.html">KVM
            and Docker LXC Benchmarking with OpenStack</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://robhirschfeld.com/2014/04/30/opencrowbar-anvil/">OpenCrowbar.Anvil
            released – hammering out a gold standard in open bare metal
            provisioning</a></li>
        <li><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SM1OpenStack">HP is
            running a survey for release at the Summit</a></li>
        <li>OpenStack Project Meeting: didn’t happen this week</li>
      </ul>
      <h2>Got Answers?</h2>
      <p><a href="https://ask.openstack.org/">Ask OpenStack</a> is the
        go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions
        waiting for answers:</p>
      <ul>
        <li><a
href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/28362/what-causes-namespace-object-has-no-attribute-volume-restoring-a-cinder-backup/">What
            causes ‘Namespace’ object has no attribute ‘volume’
            restoring a Cinder backup?</a></li>
        <li><a
href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/28512/how-to-use-filtering-queries-in-ceilometer-via-cli/">How
            to use filtering queries in Ceilometer via CLI?</a></li>
        <li><a
href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/28431/unable-to-load-quantum-from-configuration-file-etcneutronapi-pasteini-icehouse/">Unable
            to load quantum from configuration file
            /etc/neutron/api-paste.ini – Icehouse</a></li>
        <li><a
href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/28428/configure-multiple-external-network/">Configure
            multiple External network</a></li>
        <li><a
href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/28391/instance-not-taking-ip-form-the-dhcp-and-gateway-router-external-port-down/">Instance
            not taking IP form The DHCP and Gateway router external port
            down?</a></li>
      </ul>
      <h2>Welcome New Reviewers and Developers</h2>
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        <tbody>
          <tr>
            <td width="306"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person2cae3145-3912-4dec-adc0-84643c135de9">Christina
                Darretta</a></td>
            <td width="351"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person0bf59cea-c8f7-4b5a-a23e-f860a790900c">Abhinav
                Agrawal</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td width="306"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person25612b7d-6b45-4dcd-93d7-b83d70f3d17b">Sam
                Hague</a></td>
            <td width="351"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person3a95d767-68f5-4b35-b432-0e13d6cb1439">Gabriel
                Assis Bezerra</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td width="306"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personbd2a0f4d-b20b-4376-aae6-c3a41a81eaec">Obulapathi</a></td>
            <td width="351"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personed5d754b-95b9-4d8c-a4f6-e57d9d0cbcbc">Michael
                Tupitsyn</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td width="306"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person11b0f81d-975e-493a-b867-ac1b7195d4a3">yummy.bian</a></td>
            <td width="351"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,persona9b3f554-1e7f-4119-bc9f-6f247c969ed2">Laurel
                Michaels</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td width="306"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person87b97f1e-c0cf-4d16-899a-400852371a11">Tushar
                Gohad</a></td>
            <td width="351"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person3e5593ba-11ab-451a-b8ef-7822571c84a2">Karin
                Levenstein</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td width="306"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person3e5593ba-11ab-451a-b8ef-7822571c84a2">Karin
                Levenstein</a></td>
            <td width="351"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personc0b11aea-a440-49ec-a4d7-e75989e88b1e">Baohua
                Yang</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td width="306"><br>
            </td>
            <td width="351"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person0e9561f4-52db-4016-8211-de43da9e61a9">Andrew
                James</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td width="306"><br>
            </td>
            <td width="351"><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person87b97f1e-c0cf-4d16-899a-400852371a11">Tushar
                Gohad</a></td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>
      <h2>Latest Activity In Projects</h2>
      <p>Do you want to see at a glance the bugs filed and solved this
        week? Latest patches submitted for review? Check out the
        individual project pages on <a
          href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/">OpenStack
          Activity Board – Insights</a>.</p>
      <ul>
        <li><a
            href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/ceilometer">Telemetry
            (Ceilometer)</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/cinder">Block
            Storage (Cinder)</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/glance">Image
            Service (Glance)</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/heat">Orchestration
            API</a> <a
            href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/heat">(Heat)</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/horizon">Dashboard
            (Horizon)</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/ironic">Bare
            Metal Provisioning (Ironic)</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/keystone">Identity
            (Keystone)</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/openstack-manuals">Manuals</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/neutron">Networking
            (Neutron)</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/nova">Compute
            (Nova)</a></li>
        <li><a
href="http://stackalytics.com/?release=icehouse&metric=commits&project_type=openstack&module=sahara-group&company=&user_id=">Data
            Processing (Sahara)</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/swift">Object
            Storage (Swift)</a></li>
        <li><a
            href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/trove">Database
            As A Service (Trove</a></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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