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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/09/openstack-folsom-is-here-with-the-schedule-of-the-summit/">OpenStack
Folsom Is Here With The Schedule Of The Summit</a></h3>
<p>Another release for OpenStack today, the sixth in a little over
two years. Folsom, or 2012.2 has two new services Networking
(Quantum) and Block Storage (Cinder) services, architected in line
with the OpenStack philosophy of pluggability and extensibility.
While work was underway to establish the new OpenStack Foundation,
our thriving community once again delivered the release on-time
and with all planned essential features. The full announcement
with links to the release notes on <a
href="http://markmail.org/message/vanmu7ahkvmnxfln">OpenStack
2012.2 (“Folsom”) released!</a> Direct download links on <a
href="http://bit.ly/openstackfolsom">http://bit.ly/openstackfolsom</a></p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/09/openstack-folsom-is-here-with-the-schedule-of-the-summit/">Published
the Agenda for the OpenStack Summit</a></h3>
<p>The <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/feed/openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org">schedule
for the OpenStack Summit has been published</a>: take advantage
of the discount until the end of September (<a
href="http://openstacksummitfall2012.eventbrite.com/">save $200</a>)
on the registration fee and come meet this amazing OpenStack
community live in San Diego.</p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/653zs7ihk3hwj5ec">Technical
Committee elections results, Fall 2012</a></h3>
<p>The OpenStack TC election period is now over. The <a
href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/%7Eandru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_019fda1f0dd037a2">winners
</a> for the 3 remaining seats on the <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/TechnicalCommittee">Technical
Committee</a> are: Monty Taylor, Anne Gentle, Russell Bryant.</p>
<p>They are elected for a one-year term, and join the
already-elected members: Vish Ishaya, John Dickinson, Brian
Waldon, Joe Heck, Gabriel Hurley, Dan Wendlandt, John Griffith,
Mark McLoughlin, Jay Pipes and Thierry Carrez.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://ken.pepple.info/openstack/2012/09/25/openstack-folsom-architecture/">OpenStack
Folsom Architecture</a></h3>
<p>Ken Pepple <em>updated his “Intro to OpenStack Architecture 101″
for the official documentation. Read the </em><strong>expanded</strong><em>
version of it on his blog.</em></p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/09/providing-a-unified-view-of-openstack-projects/">Providing
a Unified View of OpenStack Projects</a></h3>
<p>Wan to find answers to questions like: who’s contributing to that
particular feature of OpenStack? What is that developer working
on? How many work hours/lines of code went into adding that
feature/blueprint? What are users saying about OpenStack? <a
href="http://openstack.enterthemeeting.com/m/1GQI39PC">Register
here</a> for the webinar and don’t miss the talk on <a
href="http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/event/a5194145c6d2667d3e9d83a5d012bf83?iframe=no&w=700&sidebar=no&bg=no">Wednesday,
October 17 in San Diego</a>.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/09/27/top-three-swift-features-in-openstack-folsom/">The
Top 3 New Swift Features in OpenStack Folsom</a></h3>
<p>There has been a ton of activity in and around Swift throughout
the Folsom release cycle. Swift has moved from version 1.4.8 in
the Essex release to version 1.7.4 in the Folsom release. Some of
the new features added in the Folsom release include the
integration of Keystone middleware, the separation of the Swift
CLI and client library so Glance can more easily integrate with
Swift to store Nova images.</p>
<p>Swift has also added many new features to its core storage
engine. Find out about it from SwiftStack Team.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/09/25/from-nova-network-to-quantum/">From
nova-network to quantum</a></h3>
<p>If you wonder what changed in OpenStack Networking with the
release of Folsom, this is the article to read. By <a
href="http://sebastien-han.fr/">Sébastien Han</a> and <a
href="http://my1.fr/">Emilien Macchi</a>.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/09/28/quantum-plugin-comparison/">Quantum
plugin comparison</a></h3>
<p>Folsom has been released, it’s probably time for some of you to
deploy OpenStack. This is a follow up to the article titled <a
href="http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/09/25/from-nova-network-to-quantum/">From
nova-network to Quantum</a>. One of the main question with
Folsom is: which Quantum plugin should I use? The answer could be
in this article! Another article co-written with <a
href="http://my1.fr/">Emilien Macchi</a>. Deep dive into the
available plugins in Quantum for OpenStack Folsom.</p>
<h2>Tips and tricks</h2>
<ul>
<li>By <a href="http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/">Grid Dynamics:
OpenStack Team</a>: <a
href="http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/373/">Overcoming
YUM Repository Limit</a></li>
<li>By <a
href="http://www.sandywalsh.com/2012/09/openstack-nova-internals-pt2-services.html">Sandy
Walsh</a>: a fairly detailed treaty on <a
href="http://www.sandywalsh.com/2012/09/openstack-nova-internals-pt2-services.html">OpenStack
Nova Internals – pt2 – Services</a><br>
<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
</li>
<li>Help needed to organize the <a
href="http://markmail.org/message/7ridfk4vgilz7slj">OpenStack
devroom for <strong>FOSDEM</strong> 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?MID=135"
target="_blank">OpenStack China Tour #2</a> Sep 22, 2012 –
Shenzen, China <a
href="http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?MID=135"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/79142862/"
target="_blank">Puppet Master Pulls Deployment Strings with
Ease</a> Sep 27, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/79142862/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://in.pycon.org/2012/funnel/pyconindia2012/48-openstack-open-source-software-for-building-private-and-public-clouds-written-in-python"
target="_blank">PyCon India 2012</a>, Sept 28-30 – Bangalore,
India, <a
href="http://in.pycon.org/2012/funnel/pyconindia2012/48-openstack-open-source-software-for-building-private-and-public-clouds-written-in-python"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://openstack.org/" target="_blank">OpenStack
Summit</a> Oct 15 – 18, 2012 – San Diego, CA</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other news</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/mp7sczuoee2hvwce">What’s
up doc? September 26 2012</a></li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-09-25: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-09-25-21.02.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-09-25-21.02.log.html">full
logs</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Chart of the week</h2>
<p>Lots more charts are available on <a
href="http://bitergia.com/public/reports/openstack/2012_09_folsom/index.html">Bitergia’s
report on Folsom</a> and Mark <a
href="http://openstack.markmail.org/search/list:net%2Elaunchpad%2Elists%2Eopenstack+from:%22Mark+McLoughlin%22">McLoughlin</a>
(spelled right this time) <a
href="https://github.com/markmc/openstack-gitdm/tree/results/folsom">github
tree</a>.</p>
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