Highlights of the week
Full steam towards the OpenStack Summit Fall 2012 now SOLD OUT http://www.openstack.org/summit/san-diego-2012/
Whether you want to build the software, run it, grow the community or just learn more about it, there will be content, workshops and design sessions for you to attend at the OpenStack Summit, Oct 15-18 in San Diego. The agenda is complete http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/. Stick around Friday for the first OpenStack service day, a 1/2 day beach cleanup https://openstack-beach-cleanup.eventbrite.com/.
Grizzly Design Summit schedule posted http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/grizzly-design-summit-schedule-posted/
Aside from the Grizzly Design Summit http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit/Grizzly sessions, there will be also a room for an *Unconference*, open from Tuesday to Thursday. You can grab a 40-min slot there to present anything related to OpenStack! We'll also have 5-min *Lightning talks* after lunch on Monday-Wednesday where you can talk about anything you want. There will be a board posted on the Summit floor, first-come-first-served.
Participating Remotely to OpenStack Summit 2012 http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/10/participating-remotely-to-openstack-summit-2012/
If you can't make it to San Diego but you still want to participate in the sessions that will shape the future roadmap of OpenStack 'Grizzly' you can join the live audio streaming events on Webex. Kindly donated by Cisco Webex team (users of OpenStack themselves http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/event/54ea0d2c841925ba397dea8aece6e72c), the Webex session will run for the whole day from 9:30am to 6:00pm for each of the rooms Emma AB http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/venue/Emma%20AB, Emma C http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/venue/Emma%20C, Windsor BC http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/venue/Windsor%20BC, Annie AB http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/venue/Annie%20AB where the Design Summit http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/overview/type/design+summit will happen.
8 OpenStack Questions? Answered. http://www.mirantis.com/blog/8-openstack-questions-answered/
/GigaOm/'s Barb Darrow intrigued the cloud community with her 8 questions about OpenStack http://gigaom.com/cloud/top-8-questions-for-the-openstack-summit/ as the next summit approaches. Boris Renski didn't resist answering to all of them.
How Sina Contributes to OpenStack http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/10/how-sina-contributes-to-openstack/
Sina keeps increasing its investments on OpenStack: not only code contributions for theFolsom release but also promotion of the project all across China and StackLab.org http://StackLab.org/ (since trystack.org is not accessible from China).
XenServer 6.1, XCP 1.6 and OpenStack Folsom http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/10/10/xenserver-6-1-xcp-1-6-and-openstack-folsom/
In other words, what Citrix contributed to Folsom: lots of nice things.
How swift is your Swift? Benchmarking OpenStack Swift. http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=947
The OpenStack Swift project has been developing at a tremendous pace. The version 1.6.0 was released in August followed by 1.7.4 (Folsom http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/Folsom) just after two months! In these two recent releases, many important features have also been implemented, for example the optimization for using SSD, object versioning, StatsD logging and much more -- many of these features have significant implications for performance planning for the cloud builders and operators. Zmanda talks about benchmarks for Swift.
What prevents you from becoming a contributor to OpenStack. http://syedarmani.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-start-contributing-to-openstack.html
Syed Armani asked to participants to Indian OpenStack user group meetings what prevents them to become contributors. Interesting findings, we may want to expand the survey.
Tips and tricks
* By Mirantis http://www.mirantis.com/: Integrating OpenStack Nova-network with Infoblox IP Address Management http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-nova-network-integration-infoblox-address-management/ * By Mirantis http://www.mirantis.com/: Configuring a multi-region cluster for cloud object storage with OpenStack Swift http://www.mirantis.com/blog/configuring-multi-region-cluster-openstack-swift/ * By Sébastien Han http://sebastien-han.fr/: Delete a VM in error state (Folsom) http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/10/08/delete-a-vm-in-error-state-folsom/ * By Boden Russell http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=8f41411877dcf711f49be866d9c7b60e: OpenStack Keystone Workflow & Token Scoping https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/e93514d3-c4f0-4aa0-8844-497f370090f5/entry/openstack_keystone_workflow_token_scoping?lang=en
Upcoming Events
* OpenStack Summit http://openstack.org/ Oct 15 -- 18, 2012 -- San Diego, CA * Swiss OpenStack user group meeting http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/82917082/ Nov 15, 2012 -- Zürich, CH
Other news
* OpenStack Cloud Folsom Webcast: Followup on your questions http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/ * Grid Dynamics OpenStack Team http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/: Altai v1.0.1 is outWelcome To OpenStack Nation (Delhi NCR) http://syedarmani.blogspot.com/2012/09/welcome-to-openstack-nation-delhi-ncr.html * [Ceilometer] Release 0.1 (Folsom) http://markmail.org/message/nccxg3m7aokvsgdq * OpenStack Nova, Keystone and Horizon 2012.1.3 released http://markmail.org/message/yqvid5aob2kog2lg * OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-10-09: Summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-09-21.01.html and full logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-09-21.01.log.html.
Chart of the week
Evolution of web traffic on openstack.org in the 6 months period, from April-September 2012 compared to the previous period October 2011-March 2012.
http://www.openstack.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/openstackorg-folsom.png
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