OpenStack Summit: Vote for Speakers

We’ve gotten a lot of great speaking submissions, and would like your help shaping the agenda for the next OpenStack Summit, October 15-18, in San Diego. We’ve made the submissions public for your input, and you have until Thursday, September 13, to vote up your favorites. Please note you need to be an Individual Member of the OpenStack Foundation in order to access the voting system.

OpenStack Governance Elections: Technical Committee

Now that we have elected the Project Technical Leads for the next release, the OpenStack community is called to elect the last 3 members of the OpenStack Technical Committee. Per section 4.1(b) of the OpenStack Foundation bylaws, the Technical Committee (“TC”) is a technical meritocracy managing all the technical matters relating to OpenStack. It replaces the “Project Policy Board” from the old governance.

OpenStack Governance Elections Autumn 2012 Results

The OpenStack community has elected the Project Technical Leads.

Demo: Live Migration, without shared storage, using XenServer and OpenStack

Renuka Apte demonstrates the new OpenStack Folsom and Storage XenMotion to enables live migration of VMs, without shared storage, using XenServer and OpenStack.

This week in Docs

Getting ready for Folsom release, the doc team went from 34 High folsom-targeted doc bugs two weeks ago to 17 on Monday. The documentation team is working hard to deliver always better documentation for OpenStack. See what else there is to be done.

Security announcements

• Keystone: Revoking a role does not affect existing tokens (CVE-2012-4413)

Tips and tricks

• By Mark McCoughlin: Friday is for Yak Shaving (experiences on using openstack-client over ssh tunnel)

Upcoming Events

• Help needed to organize the OpenStack devroom for FOSDEM 2013
• OpenStack China Tour #1 Sep 16, 2012 – Bejing, China Details
• OpenStack China Tour #2 Sep 22, 2012 – Shenzen, China Details
• PyCon India 2012, Sept 28-30 – Bangalore, India, Details
• OpenStack Summit Oct 15 – 18, 2012 – San Diego, CA

Other news

• Approaching OpenStack Folsom RC1
• OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-09-11: Summary and full logs

Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

• pengyuwei
• Clemens Perz
• jokcylou
• Derek Yarnell
  
• Teng Li
• Alessandro Tagliapietra
• Chris Yeoh, IBM
• Sirisha Devineni, Persistent