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OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 6, 2012<BR>
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<B>HIGHLIGHTS</B><BR>
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<LI>OpenStack Essex is ready <A HREF="http://www.openstack.org/Essex/">http://www.openstack.org/Essex/</A>
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<LI>Press release http://www.openstack.org/projects/essex/press-release/
<LI>Release notes http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/Essex
<LI>Essex Hall Of Fame <A HREF="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/openstack-essex-hall-of-fame/">http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/openstack-essex-hall-of-fame/</A>
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<LI>The Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That’s Changing Everything <A HREF="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/openstack/">http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/openstack</A>
<LI>OpenStack Community Pulls It Out Of The Bag <A HREF="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/2012/04/openstack-community-pulls-it-out-of-the-bag/">http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/openstack-community-pulls-it-out-of-the-bag/</A>
<LI>Ask not what OpenStack can do for you… <A HREF="http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/ask-not-what-openstack-can-do-for-you/">http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/ask-not-what-openstack-can-do-for-you/</A>
<LI>There is still time to submit session proposals for OpenStack Folsom Design Summit <A HREF="https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08674.html">https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08674.html</A>
<LI>OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference Schedule <A HREF="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/03/openstack-spring-2012-conference-schedule/">http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/03/openstack-spring-2012-conference-schedule/</A>
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<B>EVENTS</B><BR>
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<LI>Introduction to OpenStack and Inaugural Meetup Apr 11, 2012 – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada <A HREF="http://www.meetup.com/Canadian-OpenStack-Users-Group/events/57906402/">http://www.meetup.com/Canadian-OpenStack-Users-Group/events/57906402/</A>
<LI>OpenStack Austin Meetup Apr 12, 2012 – Austin, TX <A HREF="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/56488672/">http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/56488672/</A>
<LI>OpenStack Spring 2012 Design Summit Apr 16 – 18 and Conference Apr 19-20 – San Francisco, California <A HREF="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/conference/">http://openstack.org/conference/</A>
<LI>OpenStack Israel 2012 May 30, 2012 – Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel <A HREF="http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/53864922/">http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/53864922/</A>
<LI>Open Cloud and Public Administration Jun 19, 2012 – Bern, Switzerland Call for papers/sponsors <A HREF="http://www.ch-open.ch/index.php?id=1034">http://www.ch-open.ch/index.php?id=1034</A>
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<B>REPORTS FROM PAST EVENTS</B><BR>
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<LI>OpenStack Sydney Australia Meetup March 26 <A HREF="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/2012/03/openstack-sydney-australia-meetup-march-26/">http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/03/openstack-sydney-australia-meetup-march-26/</A>
<LI>Recap: OpenStack LA Meetup Mar 29 <A HREF="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/2012/04/recap-openstack-la-meetup-mar-29/">http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/04/recap-openstack-la-meetup-mar-29/</A>
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<B>OTHER NEWS</B><BR>
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<LI>Passing the Devstack Gate <A HREF="http://amo-probos.org/post/12">http://amo-probos.org/post/12</A>
<LI>Ushering in the OpenStack Essex Release <A HREF="http://www.joinfu.com/2012/04/ushering-in-the-openstack-essex-release/">http://www.joinfu.com/2012/04/ushering-in-the-openstack-essex-release</A>
<LI>Reflecting on Essex <A HREF="http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000005.html">http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000005.html</A>
<LI>OpenStackManager 1.4 released by Wikimedia Foundation<A HREF="http://ryandlane.com/blog/2012/04/06/openstackmanager-1-4-released/"> http://ryandlane.com/blog/2012/04/06/openstackmanager-1-4-released/</A>
<LI>Swift State of the Project Spring 2012 <A HREF="http://programmerthoughts.com/openstack/swift-state-of-the-project-spring-2012">http://programmerthoughts.com/openstack/swift-state-of-the-project-spring-2012</A>
<LI>OpenStack Wiki Recent Changes – <A HREF="http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges">http://wiki.openstack.org/RecentChanges</A>
<LI>Project meeting summary <A HREF="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-04-03-21.02.html">http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-04-03-21.02.html</A>
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<B>COMMUNITY STATISTICS</B><BR>
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To celebrate Essex release we publish the statistics assembled by Mark McLoughlin using gitdm, looking into the top 20 contributors across Nova, Glance, Swift, Keystone, Horizon and Quantum (even if Quantum will be officially part of OpenStack Folsom, not Essex):<BR>
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Processed 3481 csets from 217 developers<BR>
100 employers found<BR>
A total of 421695 lines added, 256904 removed (delta 164791)<BR>
Developers with the most changesets<BR>
termie 238 (6.8%)<BR>
Gabriel Hurley 207 (5.9%)<BR>
Brian Waldon 195 (5.6%)<BR>
Johannes Erdfelt 146 (4.2%)<BR>
Vishvananda Ishaya 116 (3.3%)<BR>
Dolph Mathews 98 (2.8%)<BR>
Dan Prince 84 (2.4%)<BR>
Ziad Sawalha 80 (2.3%)<BR>
Jason Kölker 77 (2.2%)<BR>
Mark McLoughlin 73 (2.1%)<BR>
Jake Dahn 73 (2.1%)<BR>
Rick Harris 71 (2.0%)<BR>
Alex Meade 70 (2.0%)<BR>
Trey Morris 62 (1.8%)<BR>
Joe Heck 58 (1.7%)<BR>
Chris Behrens 52 (1.5%)<BR>
Russell Bryant 50 (1.4%)<BR>
Eoghan Glynn 50 (1.4%)<BR>
Joe Gordon 47 (1.4%)<BR>
Jesse Andrews 46 (1.3%)<BR>
Covers 54.380925% of changesets<BR>
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w00t! Congrats and thanks to those for all their hard work on Essex!<IMG SRC="http://www.openstack.org/blog/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wpgallery/img/t.gif" ALIGN="bottom" ALT="" BORDER="0"><BR>
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