Highlights of the week Ceilometer bug squash day #1 <http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2012/ceilometer-bug-squash-day-1> What better way to start the new year? The Ceilometer team is pleased to announce <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-December/004161.html> that it organizes a bug squashing day on the Friday 4th January 2013 <http://wiki.openstack.org/Ceilometer/BugSquashingDay/20130104>. You can get started by reading how to contribute to Ceilometer <http://wiki.openstack.org/Ceilometer/Contributing>, from updating the documentation, to fixing bugs. There's a lot you can do. Good support for Ceilometer is built into Devstack <http://devstack.org/>, so installing a development platform is really easy. Thinking about the mission of the user committeee <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-December/001292.html> Narayan Desai started a discussion about the mission of OpenStack Foundation's most important governing body: the User Committee. Any member of the OpenStack Foundation is welcome to chime in and help define the User Committee. Resources for translators of documentation <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-docs/2012-December/000618.html> A thread on the OpenStack Documentation mailing list lead to a summary post on how to get started translating OpenStack Manuals. Tips and tricks * By Everett Toews <http://blog.phymata.com/>: Contributing OpenStack Support to jclouds <http://blog.phymata.com/2012/10/03/contributing-openstack-support-to-jclouds/> * By Everett Toews <http://blog.phymata.com/>: jclouds and OpenStack <http://blog.phymata.com/2012/09/04/jclouds-and-openstack/> * By Michael Still <http://www.stillhq.com/>: Image handlers (in essex) <http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000010.html> Upcoming Events * Minnesota OpenStack: Part 2 <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> Jan 07, 2013 -- Minneapolis, MN Details <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> * OpenStack DACH Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/96141772/> Jan 09, 2013 -- Cologne (Köln), Germany Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/96141772/> * FOSDEM'13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 -- 03, 2013 -- Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Other news * Questions and Answers: Storage as a Service with OpenStack Cloud <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/questions-and-answers-about-storage-as-a-service-with-openstack-cloud/> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-18-21.02.html> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-18-21.02.log.html> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * John Bresnahan, Red Hat * Xing Yang, EMC Bonus Video http://youtu.be/mbcC8Frb_Hc <http://youtu.be/mbcC8Frb_Hc> /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./