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<h2><strong>OpenStack Community Newsletter — June 15</strong></h2>
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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
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<h4><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/06/announcing-openstack-asiapacific-conference-2012/">Announcing
OpenStack Asia/Pacific Conference 2012</a></h4>
<p lang="en">The OpenStack Asia/Pacific community is hosting
a large OpenStack conference on August 10th and 11th, with
a main venue in Bejing and a remote participation in
Shanghai, hosted by the Chinese OpenStack User Group
(COSUG) and CSDN, supervised by CSIP.</p>
<p>Companies interested in sponsorship opportunities in the
area can browse the <a
href="http://openstack.csdn.net/sponsor_application.html">sponsorship
prospectus</a> and pick the best options for their
budget.</p>
<p>Speakers are welcome to <a
href="http://openstack.csdn.net/speaker_application.html">submit
their speaking proposal</a>, also in English. If you
want to help with the organization of the event you can
still join the <a
href="https://groups.google.com/group/openstack-apec-group-discussion">OpenStack
APEC community group</a>.</p>
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<h4><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/06/meeting-to-discuss-next-openstack-conference-and-summit/">Meeting
To Discuss Next OpenStack Conference And Summit</a></h4>
<p>All people interested in the next OpenStack Summit and
Conference, especially former sponsors and coordinators of
tracks in past events, are invited to register for the
meeting <a
href="http://markcollier.enterthemeeting.com/m/58PO7BLP/">OpenStack
Summit & Conference Fall 2012 Planning</a>, next
Tuesday, June 19 at 10:00 AM CDT. It will be the right
time and place to discuss the challenges faced as the
events have grown, and potential changes to the format to
address them going forward.</p>
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<h4><a
href="http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/lvm-disks-support-in-openstack-nova-folsom/">LVM
disks support in OpenStack Nova Folsom</a></h4>
<p>GridDynamics implemented LVM disk support functionality
(based on <a
href="http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/using-lvm-as-disk-storage-for-openstack/"
target="_blank">previous work for Diablo</a>) and
successfully delivered it to upstream.</p>
<p>New LVM image backend can be enabled by setting <strong>libvirt_images_type
</strong>flag to value <strong>lvm</strong>.For more
information on this functionality you can consult the <a
href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/lvm-disk-images"
target="_blank">blueprint</a> and review code changes <a
href="https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/e0540dfed1c1276106105aea8d5765356961ef3d"
target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<h4><a
href="http://blog.chmouel.com/2012/06/13/swift-common-client-library-and-swift-cli-has-moved-to-its-own-project/">swift.common.client
library and swift CLI moved to a new home</a></h4>
<p>In order to improve code manageability and consistency
across all OpenStack projects, swift.common.client and the
bin/swift CLI moved to a separate repository <a
href="https://github.com/chmouel/python-swiftclient">https://github.com/openstack/python-swiftclient</a></p>
<p>This should be compatible with swift.common.client with
only difference being to import swiftclient instead of
importing swift.common.client. Send bugs/feature request
under the swift project in launchpad <a
href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+filebug">https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+filebug</a>
using the tag python-swiftclient.</p>
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<h4><a href="http://markmail.org/message/wfs56hxltsdwhpib">Keystone
v3 API draft (update and questions to the community)</a></h4>
<p>Joe Heck reporting on the progress for the new API and
asking feedback to the community. Join the discussion on <a
href="http://markmail.org/message/wfs56hxltsdwhpib">Keystone
v3 API draft</a>.</p>
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<h4><a href="http://markmail.org/message/msfhhqxy2xzi2fsc">Call
for testing : nova, glance, keystone and horizon
2012.1.1 tarballs</a></h4>
<p>Marc McLoughlin is ready to release an update to
OpenStack Stable branch with over 60 bug fixes since the
release in April.</p>
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<h4><a href="http://markmail.org/message/bp4ypukzsabzwnwt">Welcome
RHEL/CentOS/Fedora to docland!</a></h4>
<p>Anne Gentle pushed a couple of changes to the docs
landing page and added a brand new install/deploy guide
for RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora. Comments are now enabled by
default on each page and there are now two guides to
install OpenStack from scratch: one for Debian/Ubuntu
systems (apt) and one for RedHat/Fedora/CentOS (yum).</p>
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<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.ch-open.ch/index.php?id=1034"
target="_blank">Open Cloud and Public Administration</a>
Jun 19, 2012 – Bern, Switzerland <a
href="http://www.ch-open.ch/index.php?id=1034"
target="_blank">Call for papers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.openstackmeeting.com.br/"
target="_blank">OpenStack Meeting Brazil</a> Jun 20,
2012 – Sao Paulo, Brazil <a
href="http://www.openstackmeeting.com.br/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/67737262/"
target="_blank">June Boston OpenStack User Group
Meetup</a> Jun 21, 2012 – Boston, MA <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/67737262/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/62345642/"
target="_blank">Australian OpenStack User Group</a>
Jun 26, 2012 – Brisbane, Australia <a
href="http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/62345642/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/assets/oscon-pavilion-prospectus-2012.pdf"
target="_blank">OSCON</a> Jul 16 – 20, 2012 –
Portland, OR <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/assets/oscon-pavilion-prospectus-2012.pdf"
target="_blank">Sponsor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/FISL13"
target="_blank">13th International Free Software Forum
– OpenStack Track</a> Jul 25 – 28, 2012 – Porto
Alegre, Brazil <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/FISL13"
target="_blank">Coordination</a></li>
<li><a href="http://openstack.csdn.net/index.html"
target="_blank">2012 OpenStack APEC Conference</a> Aug
10 – 11, 2012 – Bejing+Shanghai, China <a
href="http://openstack.csdn.net/index.html"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
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<h2>Other news</h2>
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<li>OpenStack Project 2012-06-12 <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-06-12-21.03.html">meeting
summary</a> and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-06-12-21.03.log.html">full
log</a></li>
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<h2>Welcome new contributors</h2>
<p>Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:</p>
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<li>Boris Filippov, GridDynamics</li>
<li>Eric Harney</li>
<li>Deevi Lalitha, Persistent Systems</li>
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<td> <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></td>
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