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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
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<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/07/join-the-openstack-foundation/">Join
The OpenStack Foundation</a></h3>
<p>The OpenStack community has worked hard since the
announcement of intention to establish an OpenStack
Foundation in October 2011. We’ve come to the point where
Individual Members can join and begin making important
contributions like nominating board members: <a
href="http://openstack.org/join">http://openstack.org/join</a>
(It’s free!)</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/community/openstack-foundation-board-2012-election-candidates/">OpenStack
Foundation Board – 2012 Election Candidates</a></h3>
<p>See the current list of nominees for the OpenStack
Foundation 2012 Board Member Elections who have received
at least one nomination. A candidate must receive at least
10 nominations to appear on the ballot. Any active member
of the OpenStack Foundation can support a nominee at the
links below or nominate a new candidate by emailing <a
href="mailto:secretary@openstack.org">secretary@openstack.org</a>
(the acting secretary is Jonathan Bryce). A candidate must
receive at least 10 nominations to appear on the ballot. <strong>The
final day to nominate a candidate is August 6, 2012.</strong></p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/7pm63xkknide7oob"><strong>Creating
a development cycle that is more user friendly</strong><strong>
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<p><strong>Following recent discussions about increasing the
involvement of users in the development of OpenStack, a
new thread started. Your opinion is appreciated.</strong></p>
<h3><a
href="http://berrange.com/posts/2012/07/26/a-review-of-the-1st-london-openstack-meetup/">A
review of the 1st London OpenStack Meetup</a></h3>
<p>The report by Daniel P. Berrangé about a fabulous night,
with views across London via the open air roof terrace,
watered with pizza & drinks and warm weather in
London. Daniel’s talk is available also as <a
href="http://cloudevangelist.org/2012/07/27/openstack_podcast/">podcast</a>
on <a href="http://cloudevangelist.org/">Cloud Evangelist</a>
blog.</p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/wxbmggolzwdlldgs">Weekly
Hyper-V meeting on Freenode/#openstack-hyper-v</a></h3>
<p>Anyone interested in bringing back support for Hyper-V in
Nova is invited to join the new OpenStack-Hyper-V team.</p>
<h3>Tips and tricks</h3>
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<li>By <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc">Mark
McLoughlin</a>: <a
href="http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/07/27/ancient-history/">How
</a>find the bzr merge proposal in launchpad which
caused a given commit to be merged.</li>
<li>By <a href="http://sebastien-han.fr/">Sébastien Han</a>:
<a
href="http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/07/23/tips-watch-your-nova-log-at-the-same-time/">Watch
your nova log at the same time</a></li>
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<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
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<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://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 2012-07-24: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-24-21.03.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-24-21.03.log.html">Meeting
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>Aaron Orosen, Nicira</li>
<li>Nayna Patel, HP</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
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