Highlights of the week

Full steam towards the OpenStack Summit Fall 2012 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. Registration still open http://openstacksummitfall2012.eventbrite.com/, and the agenda (almost) 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/.

Contributing OpenStack Support to jclouds http://blog.phymata.com/2012/10/03/contributing-openstack-support-to-jclouds/

jclouds http://www.jclouds.org/ is a popular cross-cloud toolkit that covers an impressive number of public and private cloud providers. There are lots of advantages for both projects to help each other. Read the article Everett Toews http://blog.phymata.com/ wrote to get started contributing OpenStack support to jclouds.

Tracking OpenStack adoption / Discussion at Summit http://markmail.org/message/5gplkacmj5ydz2f3

One of the objectives of the OpenStack Foundation is to "Make OpenStack the ubiquitous cloud operating system". In order to reach that objective the Foundation needs to understand more about the usage of the OpenStack software. OpenStack distributions are requested to participate in this conversation at the OpenStack Design Summit http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/64.

Providing a Unified View of OpenStack Projects http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/09/providing-a-unified-view-of-openstack-projects/

Want to find answers to questions like: who's contributing to that particular feature of OpenStack? What is that developer working on? How many work hours/lines of code went into adding that feature/blueprint? What are users saying about OpenStack? Watch the recordings of the webinar http://youtu.be/IFHFkwABEzc and provide feedback answering the four simple questions in the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/78JXGLC. Don't miss the talk on Wednesday, October 17 in San Diego http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/event/a5194145c6d2667d3e9d83a5d012bf83?iframe=no&w=700&sidebar=no&bg=no.

Security Advisory

* CVE-2012-4456 : Some actions in Keystone admin API do not validate token http://secstack.org/2012/10/cve-2012-4456-some-actions-in-keystone-admin-api-do-not-validate-token/ * CVE-2012-4457 : Token authorization for a user in a disabled tenant is allowed http://secstack.org/2012/10/cve-2012-4457-token-authorization-for-a-user-in-a-disabled-tenant-is-allowed/

Tips and tricks

* By SwiftStack Team http://swiftstack.com/: (Un)Official Party Guide for the OpenStack Summit in San Diego 2012 http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/10/04/parties-at-the-openstack-summit/ * By Mate Lakat http://blogs.citrix.com/: Convert a raw image to XenServer -- VHD http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/10/04/convert-a-raw-image-to-xenserver-vhd/ * By Ryan Lane http://ryandlane.com/blog: Extending a flatdhcp network the hard way http://ryandlane.com/blog/2012/10/03/extending-a-flatdhcp-network-the-hard-way/

Upcoming Events

* Help needed to organize the OpenStack devroom for *FOSDEM* 2013 http://markmail.org/message/7ridfk4vgilz7slj * 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 China Tour #2 Shenzhen http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/09/openstack-china-tour-2-shenzhen/Report from the second stop of OpenStack China Tour, Shenzhen http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=135 * Andrew Hutchings http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/search/label/openstack gave a keynote to O'Reilly Velocity Europe titled: Openstack -- Coding at Scale Keynote http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/2012/10/openstack-coding-at-scale-keynote.html * Ceilometer release status 2012-10-05 http://markmail.org/message/xys4xmfe3pn5c3f5 * What's up doc? Oct 3 2012 http://markmail.org/message/sxlh3gykzd3cy4ar News from Doc Land, "where grammarians reign and roam" * Motion to validate Ceilometer's application as incubated project http://markmail.org/message/jdjziekorrmfv4v3 * Happy Birthday Hastexo! One year in! http://www.hastexo.com/blogs/florian/2012/10/04/one-year * OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-10-02: Summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-02-21.01.html and full logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-02-21.01.log.html

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