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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/project-incubation-process-update-is-underway/">Project
Incubation Process Update is Underway</a></h3>
<p>Alan Clark, Chairman of the Board, wrote about the effort to
improve the existing open source incubation process for OpenStack.
This is one of the most important processes kickstarted by the
OpenStack Foundation whose objective is to help ensure that
projects receive the focus, visibility and resources needed to be
successful via a fair, equitable and open process.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/introducing-the-user-committee/">Introducing
the User Committee</a></h3>
<p>Speaking of important processes, here is another one you should
pay attention to: the OpenStack User Committee whose role is to
represent the needs of the diverse range of OpenStack users. For
those of you who would like to help define this committee, please
look at the <a
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yD8TfqUik2dt5xo_jMVHMl7tw9oIJnEndLK8YqEToyo/edit">points
to review</a> document and post your thoughts to the OpenStack <a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation">foundation
mailing list</a>.</p>
<h3><a
href="https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/debugging-openstack-with-pycharm-and-pydevd/">Debugging
OpenStack with pycharm and pydevd</a></h3>
<p>The story of a conversion, that of <a
href="https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/">John Bresnahan</a>
from being a strictly <em>vi</em> user, developing C code and
debugging with gdb, to an avid user of pycharm. This is a story of
lost productivity of a once Luddite converted to IDE and of how he
got to appreciate remote debugging via pydevd.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/technical-committee-grizzly-update/">Technical
Committee & Grizzly Update</a></h3>
<p>While we wait for the final release of OpenStack Grizzly, here is
a teaser of what’s coming up, with other updates from the
OpenStack Technical Committee. Read it together with the <a
href="http://markmail.org/message/cozzeh2yph6mayhp">Motion on
Technical Committee membership for Spring 2013 session</a>.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/lets-get-this-started/">Let’s
Get this Started!</a></h3>
<p>And ‘this’ is the Outreach Program for Women, coordinated by
GNOME, with OpenStack as one of ten participating organizations:
we’ve added a few more ladies to the OpenStack contributors
starting line this month.</p>
<ul>
<li>Laura Alves da Quinta (<a
href="http://ladquin.dreamwidth.org/" target="_blank">http://ladquin.dreamwidth.org/</a>),
Buenos Aires, Argentina – working on Documentation with Anne
Gentle</li>
<li>Anita Kuno (<a href="http://anteaya.info/" target="_blank">http://anteaya.info/</a>),
Haliburton, Ontario, Canada, working on Python Clients with
Iccha Sethi</li>
<li>Victoria Martínez de la Cruz (<a
href="http://vmartinezdelacruz.com/" target="_blank">http://vmartinezdelacruz.com/</a>),
Bahía Blanca, Argentina working on Horizon’s Workflows with
Julie Pichon</li>
</ul>
<p>We are seeking sponsorships to bring all of them to the OpenStack
Summit in Portland in April. If you are interested please contact
Anne Gentle at <a href="mailto:anne.gentle@rackspace.com">anne.gentle@rackspace.com</a>.
For a few thousand dollars, we can learn from them as much as they
are learning from us. A great opportunity for some great interns!</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/on-disk-encryption-prototype-for-openstack-swift/">On-disk
encryption prototype for OpenStack Swift</a></h3>
<p>A few months ago, Mirantis engineers described the <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-swift-encryption-architecture/">design
of on-disk per-user encryption</a> of objects in Swift. They
released a first working prototype of this feature. It’s still
very basic at the moment, but most of its components are pluggable
and can be enhanced or replaced with more advanced versions. Code
on <a href="https://github.com/Mirantis/swift-encrypt">Github</a>.</p>
<h2>Tips and tricks</h2>
<ul>
<li>By <a href="http://sebastien-han.fr/">Sébastien Han</a>: <a
href="http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/01/24/openstack-nova-play-with-availability-zones/">OpenStack
Nova and availability zones</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://ops.anthonygoddard.com/">Anthony Goddard</a>:
<a
href="http://ops.anthonygoddard.com/OpenStack/demystifying-openstack-folsom-quotas">Demystifying
OpenStack Folsom quotas</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://adam.younglogic.com/">Adam Young</a>: <a
href="http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/01/sql-upgrade-keystone/">A SQL
upgrade script in Keystone</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://julien.danjou.info/blog/">Julien Danjou</a>:
<a
href="http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2013/extending-swift-with-a-middleware-clamav">Extending
Swift with middleware: example with ClamAV</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack"
target="_blank">OpenStack Mini-Conf at Linux Conf Australia </a>Jan
29, 2013 – Canberra, Australia <a
href="https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/100295502/"
target="_blank">Chicago-land Open “Stackers”, Lets Meet!</a>
Jan 31, 2013 – Chicago, IL <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/100295502/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/99688052/"
target="_blank">OpenStack da zero</a> Jan 31, 2013 – Roma,
Italy <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/99688052/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/"
target="_blank">FOSDEM’13</a> Feb 02 – 03, 2013 – Bruxelles,
Belgium <a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/"
target="_blank">Cloud track</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf"
target="_blank">OpenStack Mini-Conf at gnuNify</a> Feb 15,
2013 – Pune, India <a
href="http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/"
target="_blank">Second Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting</a>
Feb 19, 2013 – Zurich, Switzerland <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/"
target="_blank">SCALE 11x</a> Feb 22 – 24, 2013 – Los Angeles,
CA <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html"
target="_blank">Pulse 2013</a> Mar 03 – 06, 2013 – Las Vegas,
NV <a
href="https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://openstack.jp/events/osdt2013.html"
target="_blank">OpenStack Day Tokyo 2013</a> Mar 12, 2013 –
Tokyo, Japan <a href="http://openstack.jp/events/osdt2013.html"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/"
target="_blank">OpenStack Developers Meetup</a> Feb 21, 2013 –
Atlanta, GA <a href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/" target="_blank">OpenStack
Israel</a> May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/" target="_blank">Coming Soon</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Report from previous events</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/report-january-month-openstack-meetupbangalore-india/">Report:
January month OpenStack meetup,Bangalore, India</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Other news</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/2sr6hjnrkgbwif2f">Swift
1.7.6 and python-swiftclient 1.3.0 released</a></li>
<li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/hffwhskaa3zqqszv">Poll:
“H” release cycle naming</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/41366323988">OpenStack
Board of Directors Talks: Episode 5 with Yujie Du (Ben),
Community Development Director at 99cloud</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_report_2013-01-23">OpenStack
Fedora news – 2013-01-23</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZqhVvJfI40">Unidata
demoed virtual desktops based on OpenStack</a></li>
<li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/ykropvuigtykrzes">Call
for testing: 2012.2.3 candidate tarballs</a></li>
<li>Swift team <a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/SwiftNextAPI">started
discussing next generation API</a> and ideas for a sprint at <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/Sprints/PyCon2013">PyCon2013</a></li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-22-21.02.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-22-21.02.log.html">full
logs</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Welcome new contributors</h2>
<p>Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:</p>
<ul>
<li>Wenhao Xu</li>
<li>gtt116</li>
<li>Spencer Krum, Portland State University</li>
<li>Mat Grove</li>
<li>Burt Holzman, Fermilab</li>
<li>Chet Burgess, Metacloud</li>
</ul>
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