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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
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<h3><a
href="http://markmail.org/message/qvqf726fdrteso23">Folsom-2
milestone available for Keystone, Glance,
Nova, Horizon and Quantum</a></h3>
<p>The second milestone of the Folsom cycle is now
available for Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon
and Quantum ! Note that the corresponding Python
client libraries are no longer shipped as part
of the server counterpart delivery, but follow
their own release plan. A <a
href="http://markmail.org/message/624ayix7sgmkc7zn"><strong>Folsom-2</strong>
milestone is available for Cinder</a>, too.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/new-nova-rootwrap-landing-in-folsom-2/">New
nova-rootwrap landing in folsom-2</a></h3>
<p>Thierry Carrez contributed a new, more
configurable and extensible nova-rootwrap
implementation. Here is what you should know
about it, depending on whether you’re a Nova
user, packager or developer!</p>
<h3><a
href="http://markmail.org/message/ezvxlqa7xu2pym5j">OpenStack
“G” naming poll</a></h3>
<p>It’s already time to decide the name of the
future OpenStack release. <a
href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenstack/+poll/g-release-naming">Participate
to the poll.</a></p>
<h3><a
href="http://markmail.org/message/qtwrzol6ju35gzlx">Best
practices for merging common into specific
projects</a></h3>
<p>Andrew Bogott started a conversation about
defining some <strong>best</strong> <strong>practices</strong>
when crossing the boundary between common and
other openstack projects. It developed into a
request for leadership for openstack-common so
that it can become a proper library.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://eric.windisch.us/2012/07/06/rpc-guarantees-in-openstack/">RPC
Guarantees in OpenStack</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://planet.openstack.org/">Eric
Windisch</a> describes the required guarantees
of OpenStack RPC implementations.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://cloudcenter.sinaapp.com/2012/07/02/a-brief-introduction-to-quantum-plugin-ryu/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-brief-introduction-to-quantum-plugin-ryu">A
brief introduction to quantum plugin-Ryu</a></h3>
<p>Yaguang Tang reminds us of Ryu, a Quantum
plugin developed by NTT. Ryu aims to provide a
logically centralized control and well defined
API that make it easy for operators to create
new network management and control applications.
Details on <a
href="http://osrg.github.com/ryu/">http://osrg.github.com/ryu/</a></p>
<h3>Tips and tricks</h3>
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<li>By Soren Hansen: <a
href="http://blog.linux2go.dk/2012/07/03/if-youre-trying-to-do-asymmetric-routing-in-ubuntu-12-04/">If
you’re trying to do asymmetric routing in
Ubuntu 12.04..</a></li>
<li>By Yaguang Tang: how to use the <a
href="http://cloudcenter.sinaapp.com/2012/07/01/notification-system-in-openstack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=notification-system-in-openstack">notification
system in openstack</a></li>
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<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
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<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>
<li><a
href="http://markmail.org/message/cbmtzazcefh6d6bw">Call
for proposals for linux.conf.au 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://openstack.org/"
target="_blank">OpenStack Summit</a> Oct 15
– 18, 2012 – San Diego, CA</li>
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<h2>Other news</h2>
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<li>OpenStack Project Meeting logs: 2012-07-03:
<a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-03-21.02.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-03-21.02.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>chnm-kulkarni</li>
<li>Syed Armani</li>
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