Highlights of the week
Important CLA changes coming this weekend (2nd try) http://markmail.org/message/azrdwianmnt2j5oc
Last weekend the change was blocked at the last minute by a request to amend the CLA text. We're trying again this weekend.
Starting on March 3, 2013 1700UTC all contributors MUST review and agree to the new OpenStack Individual Contributor License Agreement and provide updated contact information at https://review.openstack.org/#/settings/agreements. On that day the Gerrit interface will be changing to present the new CLA text referring to the OpenStack Foundation, and will prompt you to agree to it there. Any previous agreement with OpenStack LLC will be marked expired at that time. The text of the new agreement is available for your convenience https://review.openstack.org/static/cla.html. You must also sign up for an OpenStack Foundation Individual Membership with the same E-mail address as used for your Gerrit contact information: http://openstack.org/register/.
What's new in OpenStack Grizzly ? http://www.enovance.com/%25postname
Folsom brought us two new core projects : Quantum https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Quantum (Networking) and Cinder https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder (Volumes). Two new projects have been incubated : Ceilometer https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ceilometer (metering) led by Nicolas Barcet http://fr.linkedin.com/in/nbarcet (VP Products at eNovance), and Heat https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat (Cloud Orchestration). Oslo https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo is a new incubated project which produces a set of python libraries containing infrastructure code shared by all OpenStack projects. More details for each OpenStack project on this post by eNovance.
OpenStack Ceilometer and Heat projects graduated http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2013/openstack-ceilometer-head-graduated
The OpenStack Technical Committee http://www.openstack.org/foundation/technical-committee/ have voted these last weeks about graduation of Heat https://launchpad.net/heat and Ceilometer http://launchpad.net/ceilometer, to change their status from /incubation/ to /integrated/*. *Heat and Ceilometer will be released as part as OpenStack for the next release cycle /Havana/, due in October 2013.
**Raspberry Pi as a transparent squid caching proxy* http://blog.stevebaker.org/2013/02/raspberry-pi-as-transparent-squid.html*
How does a hacker improve build times when he has a slow Internet connection? A fascinating use of a tiny sub-$50 computer (RaspberryPi) to build cloud images for OpenStack. By Steve Baker http://blog.stevebaker.org/search/label/openstack
**Data placement in OpenStack Object Storage Swift* http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/02/25/data-placement-in-swift/*
Technical deep dive in how OpenStack Object Storage solves one of the hard problems of all distributed storage system: how to effectively place the data within the storage cluster. Swift has a "unique-as-possible" placement algorithm which ensures that the data is placed efficiently and with as much protection from hardware failure as possible.
**The life of an OpenStack libvirt image* http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/openstack_libvirt_images/#1361764412*
The main stages of a Virtual Machine disk image as it transfers through OpenStack to be booted under libvirt explained by Pádraig Brady http://www.pixelbeat.org/.
Security Advisories
* OSSA-2013-006] VNC proxy can connect to the wrong VM (CVE-2013-0335) http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-February/000082.html
Tips and Tricks
* By Daniel P. Berrangé https://www.berrange.com/: Installing a 4 node Fedora 18 OpenStack Folsom cluster with PackStack https://www.berrange.com/posts/2013/03/01/installing-a-4-node-fedora-18-openstack-folsom-cluster-with-packstack/ * By Victoria Martínez de la Cruz http://vmartinezdelacruz.com/: Attention newcomers! #openstack-101 is now open at Freenode http://vmartinezdelacruz.com/attention-newcomers-openstack-101-is-now-open-at-freenode/ * By Anita Kuno http://anteaya.info/: The Structure and Habits of Git http://anteaya.info/blog/2013/02/26/the-structure-and-habits-of-git/ * By Andreas Jaeger http://jaegerandi.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenStack: Coordinating efforts to create OpenStack packages for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server http://jaegerandi.blogspot.com/2013/02/coordinating-efforts-to-create.html
Upcoming Events
* OpenStack Sessions @ Barcamp Bangalore13 http://barcampbangalore.org/bcb/event/bcb13 Mar 02, 2013 -- Bangalore, India Details http://barcampbangalore.org/bcb/event/bcb13 * Pulse Open Cloud Summit http://www.ibmpulseblog.com/new-pulse-open-cloud-summit-arrive-early-on-sunday-march-3rd-and-extend-your-pulse-experience/Mar 03, 2013 -- MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV Details http://www.ibmpulseblog.com/new-pulse-open-cloud-summit-arrive-early-on-sunday-march-3rd-and-extend-your-pulse-experience/ * Pulse 2013 https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html Mar 04 -- 06, 2013 -- Las Vegas, NV Details https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html * OpenStack Day Tokyo 2013 http://openstackdays.com/en/ Mar 12, 2013 -- Tokyo, Japan Details http://openstackdays.com/en/ * OpenStack Italia User Group: ...dove eravamo rimasti? http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/102481022/ Mar 14, 2013 -- Milano, Italy Details http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/102481022/ * PyCon 2013 & Job Fair https://us.pycon.org/2013/ Mar 14 -- 17, 2013 -- Santa Clara, CA Details https://us.pycon.org/2013/ * OpenStack Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/105831232/ Mar 17, 2013 -- Bangalore, India Details http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/105831232/ * OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) API Sprint at PyCon 2013 https://us.pycon.org/2013/community/sprints/swift/ Mar 18, 2013 -- Santa Clara, CA Details https://us.pycon.org/2013/community/sprints/swift/ * OpenStack Paris Meetup http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/104394682/ Mar 19, 2013 -- Paris, France Details http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/104394682/ * World Hosting Days 2013 http://www.worldhostingdays.com/eng/index.php Mar 19 -- 21, 2013 -- Rust, Germany Details http://www.worldhostingdays.com/eng/index.php * OpenStack Developers Meetup http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/ Mar 21, 2013 -- Atlanta, GA Details http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/ * 1st OpenStack User Group Nordics meetup http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/95258382/ Apr 03, 2013 -- Kista, Sweden Details http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/95258382/ * OpenStack Summit April 2013 http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/ Apr 15 -- 18, 2013 -- Portland, OR Details http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/ * OpenStack Israel http://www.openstack.org/ May 27, 2013 -- Tel-Aviv, Israel Coming Soon http://www.openstack.org/ * GigaOM Structure http://event.gigaom.com/structure/ Jun 19 -- 20, 2013 -- San Francisco, CA Details http://event.gigaom.com/structure/
Reports from past events
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OpenStack Delhi Meetup http://www.hastexo.com/blogs/syed/2013/02/25/openstack-delhi-meetup
Other News
* The path to Ask OpenStack http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/community/2013-February/000153.html * OpenStack Unit Testing: a Long Journey Starts With a Small Step http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/openstack-unit-testing-a-long-journey-starts-with-a-small-step/ * Session proposals for the Havana Design Summit now open http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-February/005664.html * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-02-26-21.00.html and full logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-02-26-21.00.log.html.
Welcome New Contributors
Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:
* Jian Zhang, Intel * Dae S. Kim * Robert van Leeuwen, Spilgames
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