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<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/01/election-results-for-individual-and-gold-directors/">Election
Results for Individual and Gold Directors</a></h3>
<p>Each January two of the Foundation member classes hold
elections to determine their Board representatives for 2014. The
Gold Members held their election on January 6th-7th while
Individual Members <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/election/2014-individual-director-election/">elected
their Directors between Jan 12th-17th.</a></p>
<p>Today the 2014 election of Individual Directors has closed and
the <a
href="https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=36403DCmZevPaCKyfNXeAE6Q">official
results are in</a>. The elected and appointed directors will
be seated at the next board meeting, at <a
href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/30Jan2014BoardMeeting">12:00pm
PST on January 30th</a>. Thank you to everyone who
participated in this year’s Individual Director election and
congratulations to our new and returning directors. The
composition of the board is on <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/01/election-results-for-individual-and-gold-OpenStack">OpenStack</a><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/01/election-results-for-individual-and-gold-directors/">
blog</a>.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/01/atlanta-summit-call-for-speakers-open-sponsor-registration-info/">Atlanta
Summit – Call for Speakers Open + Sponsor & Registration
Info</a></h3>
<p>Marching rapidly to our next big gathering: the OpenStack
Summit will be held in Atlanta, Georgia May 12-16, 2014. The <a
href="http://openstack.org/summit" target="_blank">official
page for Atlanta</a> contains the latest announcements. The
Summit is a five-day conference for OpenStack contributors,
enterprise users, service providers, application developers and
ecosystem members. Attendees can expect visionary keynote
speakers, 200+ breakout sessions, hands-on workshops,
collaborative design sessions and lots of networking. Keynote
sessions will take place Monday and Tuesday, the main conference
will run Monday – Thursday. The Design Summit, a special track
for active technical contributors to plan the next software
release, will run Tuesday – Friday.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://mirandazhangq.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/where-to-ask-question-and-find-help-opw-experience-with-openstack-part-1/">Where
to ask question and find help OPW Experience with OpenStack
Part 1</a></h3>
<p>One of our awesome intern from the Outreach Program for Women
(OPW) shares her experience towards solving a problem while
getting stared with OpenStack.</p>
<h3><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-January/023859.html">Organizing
a Gate Blocking Bug Fix Day – Mon Jan 27th </a></h3>
<p>Developers may have noticed issues with our gate and in order
to improve the situation Sean Dague proposed a Gate Blocking Bug
Fix Day on Jan 27<sup>th</sup>. All developers are encouraged to
focus on fixing bugs on the OpenStack CI infrastructure.</p>
<h2>Tips ‘n Tricks</h2>
<ul>
<li>By Cristian Falcas: <a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/2013-December/004304.html">script
to build epubs from openstack documentation </a></li>
<li>By <a
href="http://jaegerandi.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenStack">Andreas
Jaeger</a>: <a
href="http://jaegerandi.blogspot.com/2014/01/validating-openstack-api-projects.html">Validating
OpenStack API projects</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://blog.oddbit.com/">Lars Kellogg-Stedman</a>:
<a
href="http://blog.oddbit.com/2014/01/16/stupid-openstack-tricks">Stupid
OpenStack Tricks</a> and <a
href="http://blog.oddbit.com/2014/01/14/direct-access-to-nova-metadata">Direct
access to Nova metadata</a></li>
<li>By <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/improve-performance-python-programs-restricting-single-cpu/">Konstantin
Danilov</a>: <a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/improve-performance-python-programs-restricting-single-cpu/">Edge
of the Stack: Improve Performance of Python Programs by
Restricting Them to a Single CPU</a></li>
<li>By <a
href="http://techs.enovance.com/6642/openstack-swift-as-backend-for-git-part-1">Fabien
Boucher:</a> <a
href="http://techs.enovance.com/6642/openstack-swift-as-backend-for-git-part-1">OpenStack
Swift as backend for Git – Part 1</a></li>
<li>By <a
href="http://blog.adityapatawari.com/search/label/OpenStack">Aditya
Patawari</a>: <a
href="http://blog.adityapatawari.com/2014/01/openstack-101-how-to-setup-openstack_12.html">OpenStack
101: How to Setup OpenStack Swift (OpenStack Object Storage
Service)</a> and <a
href="http://blog.adityapatawari.com/2014/01/openstack-101-how-to-setup-openstack.html">OpenStack
101: How to Setup OpenStack Keystone (OpenStack Identity
Service)</a></li>
<li>By <a href="http://blog-slagle.rhcloud.com/">James Slagle</a>:
<a href="http://blog-slagle.rhcloud.com/?p=124">Intro to some
Python dependencies of OpenStack</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/141728912/"
target="_blank">3rd OpenStack User Group Nordics meetup</a>
Jan 15, 2014 – Stockholm, Sweden <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/141728912/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/154504332/"
target="_blank">Austin OpenStack User Group Meetup</a> Jan
22, 2014 – Austin, Texas <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/154504332/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/154504602/"
target="_blank">Boston OpenStack User Group Meetup</a> Jan
22, 2014 – Boston, MA <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/154504602/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.openstackenterpriseforum.com/"
target="_blank">OpenStack: Breaking into the Enterprise
Forum</a> Jan 29, 2014 – Mountain View, CA <a
href="http://www.openstackenterpriseforum.com/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cf7dhlhfg5qa6s6ts3deabrnte0">Implementing
OpenStack</a>, Jan 29, 2014 12pm PST – [Webinar] <a
href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cf7dhlhfg5qa6s6ts3deabrnte0">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2014/" target="_blank">FOSDEM</a>
Feb 01 – 02, 2014 – Bruxelles, Belgium <a
href="https://fosdem.org/2014/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.openstackdays.com/en/" target="_blank">OpenStack
Days – Tokyo 2014</a> Feb 13 – 14, 2014 – Tokyo, Japan <a
href="http://www.openstackdays.com/en/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://onoffmix.com/event/22995" target="_blank">Korea
OpenStack Day</a> Feb 18, 2014 – Seoul, South Korea <a
href="http://onoffmix.com/event/22995" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/160120142/"
target="_blank">OpenStack India Meetup</a> Feb 22, 2014 –
Hyderabad, India <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/160120142/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.ibmpulseblog.com/second-open-cloud-summit-at-pulse-sunday-february-23rd-from-4-6-p-m/"
target="_blank">Open Cloud Summit at IBM Pulse</a> Feb 23 –
26, 2014 – Las Vegas, Nevada <a
href="http://www.ibmpulseblog.com/second-open-cloud-summit-at-pulse-sunday-february-23rd-from-4-6-p-m/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/"
target="_blank">Mobile World Congress</a> Feb 24 – 27, 2014
– Barcelona, Spain <a
href="http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/conference/cloud-connect.php"
target="_blank">Cloud Connect Summit at Interop</a> Mar 31 –
Apr 01, 2014 – Las Vegas, Nevada <a
href="http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/conference/cloud-connect.php"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.worldhostingdays.com/eng/"
target="_blank">World Hosting Days </a> Apr 01 – 03, 2014 –
Rust, Germany <a href="http://www.worldhostingdays.com/eng/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="https://us.pycon.org/2014/" target="_blank">PyCon</a>
Apr 09 – 17, 2014 – Montreal, Canada <a
href="https://us.pycon.org/2014/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/"
target="_blank">OpenStack Summit May 2014</a> May 12 – 16,
2014 – Atlanta, GA <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cloudwf.com/" target="_blank">Cloud World
Forum</a> Jun 17 – 18, 2014 – London, UK <a
href="http://cloudwf.com/" target="_blank">Details</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Security Advisories</h2>
<ul>
<li><a name="185"></a><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-January/000185.html">[OSSA
2014-002] Swift TempURL timing attack (CVE-2014-0006) </a></li>
<li><a name="184"></a><a
href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-January/000184.html">[OSSA
2014-001] Nova live snapshots use an insecure local
directory (CVE-2013-7048) </a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Reports from Previous Events</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.hpcloud.com/blog/podcast-mark-collier-coo-openstack-foundation">Podcast
with Mark Collier, COO of OpenStack Foundation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=8982">Final day
at LCA 2014 with more OpenStack</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Other News</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StoryBoard/Brussels_Sprint">StoryBoard
sprint in Brussels</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/01/open-mic-spotlight-jay-lau/">Open
Mic Spotlight: Jay Lau</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://www.mirantis.com/blog/improving-trove-architecture-design-conductor-service/">Improving
Trove Architecture Design with Conductor Service</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://swiftstack.com/blog/2014/01/14/The-remarkable-growth-of-Swift-and-what-it-means-in-2014-and-beyond/">The
remarkable growth of Swift – and what it means in 2014 (and
beyond)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://maffulli.net/2014/01/13/exploring-why-people-contribute-to-openstack/">Exploring
why people contribute to OpenStack</a></li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2014/project.2014-01-14-21.02.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2014/project.2014-01-14-21.02.log.html">full
logs</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Got Answers?</h2>
<p><a href="https://ask.openstack.org/">Ask OpenStack</a> is the
go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions
waiting for answers:</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10300/how-to-create-multiple-regions-using-packstack-on-havana/">How
to create multiple regions using Packstack on Havana</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10439/how-to-plot-rally-results/">how
to plot rally results ?</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10350/how-to-interpret-sample-user_id-in-ceilometer-documentation/">How
to interpret “sample user_id” in Ceilometer documentation</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10363/neutron-fails-to-connect-to-amqp-server-on-fedora-20/">Neutron
fails to connect to AMQP Server on Fedora 20</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10383/launch-instances-using-boto/">Launch
instances using boto</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10457/ssh-access-permission-denied/">SSH
Access Permission denied</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10489/whats-the-status-about-instance-resource-quota-now/">What’s
the status about Instance Resource Quota now?</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Welcome New Reviewers and Developers</h2>
<p>Is your affiliation correct? Check your profile in the <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/profile/">OpenStack Foundation
Members Database!</a></p>
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<h2>Latest Activity In Projects</h2>
<p>Do you want to see at a glance the bugs filed and solved this
week? Latest patches submitted for review? Check out the
individual project pages on <a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/">OpenStack
Activity Board – Insights</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/ceilometer">Telemetry
(Ceilometer)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/cinder">Block
Storage (Cinder)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/glance">Image
Service (Glance)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/heat">Orchestration
API</a> <a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/heat">(Heat)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/horizon">Dashboard
(Horizon)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/ironic">Bare
Metal Provisioning (Ironic)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/keystone">Identity
(Keystone)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/openstack-manuals">Manuals</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/neutron">Networking
(Neutron)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/nova">Compute
(Nova)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://stackalytics.com/?release=icehouse&metric=commits&project_type=openstack&module=savanna-group&company=&user_id=">Hadoop
Cluster as a Service (Savanna)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/swift">Object
Storage (Swift)</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/trove">Database
As A Service (Trove)</a></li>
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