The Whys and Hows of the Oslo Namespace Change During the Kilo cycle the Oslo team has been busy deprecating the oslo. namespace in all of our projects. The first question this probably raises for most people is: why? Ben Nemec has the answer in his blog post and also explains how the Common Libraries team has fixed the issue. The Road to Vancouver * Call For Speakers open until February 9 * Accepting applications for OpenStack Travel Support Program Relevant Conversations * Will the Big Tent “break” OpenStack? * OpenStack Product Management Kilo Midcycle Topics Finalized * The OpenStack Elections - Another Look * The OpenStack Foundation lumbers toward a stronger IP policy * EC2 API standalone service * Vancouver Design Summit format changes Deadlines and Development Priorities * [Keystone] Spec proposal deadline Feb 5 * [Cinder] Cutoff deadlines for cinder drivers: volume drivers need to have a CI by end of K-3, March 19th 2015 * [nova] Kilo FeatureProposalFreeze 22nd Jan and FeatureFreeze 5th Feb * Etherpad for the Nova midcycle meetup * Etherpad for the Keystone midcycle meetup * Etherpad for the Cinder midcycle meetup * [neutron] BPs in Launchpad for Kilo-2 * [Ironic] Bay Area Midcycle * [barbican] Kilo Mid-Cycle Sprint * Infrastructure Puppet module split sprint, Jan 28 Reports From Previous Events * OpenStack Bootstrapping Hour - oslo.messaging anti-patterns - Friday Jan 16th 17:00 UTC * Linux Conf Australia 2015 Security Advisories and Notices * [OSSA 2015-002.1] Glance v2 API unrestricted path traversal through filesystem:// scheme (CVE-2015-1195) ERRATA 1 Tips ‘n Tricks * By Alessandro Pilotti: SaltStack states for OpenStack * By Sébastien Han: OpenStack Cinder with Ceph under the hood * By James Page: Extreme OpenStack: Scale testing OpenStack Messaging * By Jason Baker: Building a successful OpenStack group * By Sébastien Han: OpenStack: disable a compute node during its first bootstrap * By Shaifali Agrawal: Two Merge so far… * By Lars Kellogg-Stedman: Running nova-libvirt and nova-docker on the same host Upcoming Events 2015 OpenStack Foundation Events Plan and Calls for Papers Available. The 2015 events plan is now available on the Global Events Calendar wiki. The detailed spreadsheet covers industry events, Summits (dates and locations), as well as regional OpenStack Days organized by the community. If you’re interested in sponsoring or speaking at a planned OpenStack Day, please contact the contact listed in the spreadsheet. * Jan 26 - 27, 2015 Product Management Group Meeting Palo Alto, CA, US * Jan 26, 2015 OpenStack Production-Grade Doha, QA * Jan 27 - 29, 2015 Cinder Kilo Midcycle Meetup Austin, Texas, US * Jan 31 - Feb 01, 2015 FOSDEM Brussels, BE * Feb 02 - 03, 2015 Upstream Training in Japan Tokyo, JP * Feb 02, 2015 OpenStack Seattle Meetup Seattle, WA, US * Feb 03 - 04, 2015 OpenStack Days Tokyo 2015 Tokyo, JP * Feb 05, 2015 OpenStack Day in Korea Seoul, Seoul, KR * Feb 11, 2015 HandsOn Prescriptive Topology Mgr Mountain View, CA, US * Feb 11, 2015 CloudCamp Bangladesh @Digital World Dhaka, BD * Feb 18, 2015 First OpenStack BW Meetup Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, DE * Feb 19 - 20, 2015 World Techies Forum Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN * Mar 04, 2015 OpenStack Finland meetup Helsinki, Uusimaa, FI * Mar 11 - 12, 2015 Cloud Expo Europe London, GB * Mar 26, 2015 PDX OpenStack Hackathon Portland, OR, US * Apr 08 - 16, 2015 PyCon 2015 Montreal, Quebec, CA * Apr 13 - 14, 2015 OpenStack Live Santa Clara, CA, US * Apr 21 - 22, 2015 CONNECT 2015 Melbourne, Victoria, AU * Apr 22 - 23, 2015 China SDNNFV Conference Beijing, CN * May 05 - 07, 2015 CeBIT AU 2015 Sydney, NSW, AU * May 18 - 22, 2015 OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver, BC * Jun 11, 2015 OpenStack DACH Day 2015 Berlin, DE * Jul 20 - 24, 2015 OSCON 2015 Portland, OR, US * Aug 10 - 13, 2015 Gartner Catalyst Conference San Diego, CA, US * Sep 17, 2015 OpenStack Benelux Conference 2015 Bussum, NL * Oct 04 - 08, 2015 Gartner SymposiumITxpo Orlando, FL, US * Nov 15 - 20, 2015 Supercomputing 15 Austin, TX, US Other News * Group Based Policy - Announcing Release * Call for Testing: Ubuntu OpenStack Kilo-1 development milestone * Neutron versus Chaos Monkey: Is Neutron Reliable At Scale? * Announcing git-deps: commit dependency analysis / visualization tool * gabbi: A tool for declarative testing of APIs * What's Up Doc? Jan 23 2015 [heat] [cinder] * Announcing Magnum's First Release * OpenStack Crossproject Meeting: (skipped). Got Answers? Ask OpenStack is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers: * Migrate VMs from oVirt to OpenStack * Why openvswitch logs appear in a different timezone? * openstack_dashboard wsgi gives "m2crypto.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32" error * Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 reference architecture or tutorial for HA installation * mirroring traffic between vm The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please leave a comment.