Highlights of the week

OpenStack Foundation Board -- 2012 Election Candidates http://www.openstack.org/community/openstack-foundation-board-2012-election-candidates/

See the current list of nominees for the OpenStack Foundation 2012 Board Member Elections who have received at least one nomination. A candidate must receive at least 10 nominations to appear on the ballot. Any active member of the OpenStack Foundation can support a nominee or nominate a new candidate http://www.openstack.org/community/openstack-foundation-board-2012-election-.... A candidate must receive at least 10 nominations to appear on the ballot and must be a member of the Foundation.

*The final day to nominate a candidate is Monday August 6, 2012.*

Rostyslav Slipetskyy's Thesis on OpenStack security http://secstack.org/2012/08/the-rostyslav-slipetskyy-thesis/

This is a pretty awesome bit of work done by a researcher in Denmark. I enjoyed reading it and I highly recommend it as day 1 reading for Infosec professionals and researchers getting into OpenStack. Slides http://www.slideshare.net/oldbam/security-issues-in-openstack and you can download the full thesis (PDF) http://nordsecmob.aalto.fi/en/programme/publications/nordsecmob_thesis_2011/thesis_slipetskyy.pdf.

API Stability Statement http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/APIStability

It is critical to the success of OpenStack http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStack that operators be willing to upgrade to new OpenStack http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStack releases. All OpenStack http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStack APIs use a versioning scheme that is completely independent from the named releases (Essex, Folsom, etc.). One obstacle to upgrading to a new OpenStack http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStack release is if there are incompatible API changes that could cause user applications to stop working. Operators want great new features and APIs to be the only aspect of the upgrade process visible to their users. Old API versions should continue to work. More on http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/APIStability

OpenStack PPB defined "Supporting Project"

There is a new category of OpenStack projects in addition to Core, Incubated, Library and Gating projects: "Supporting projects". The initial list of projects in this category is available on the wiki, with more details: http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Accepted/SupportingProjectDefinition.

OpenStack Security Primer http://secstack.org/2012/08/openstack-security-primer/

Matt Joyce introduction to security and OpenStack. He's maintaining the blog http://secstack.org http://secstack.org/, now available also on http://planet.openstack.org http://planet.openstack.org/.

Tips and tricks

* By Sébastien Han http://sebastien-han.fr/: Auto assign floating IP http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/08/03/openstack-auto-assign-floating-ip/ * By Mirantis http://www.mirantis.com/: OpenStack Networking Tutorial: Single-host FlatDHCPManager http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-networking-single-host-flatdhcpmanager/ * By Mark McLoughlin http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc: Nova DB Poking http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/07/31/nova-db-poking/ * By Alessandro Tagiapietra http://www.alexnetwork.it/: Build an HA Openstack cloud http://www.alexnetwork.it/2012/07/31/tutorials/build-an-ha-openstack-cloud-glance-setup-part-5.html (multiple parts)

Upcoming Events

* South Bay OpenStack Hackathon http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/57643102/ Aug 09, 2012 -- Sunnyvale, CA Details http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/57643102/ * 2012 OpenStack APEC Conference http://openstack.csdn.net/index.html Aug 10 -- 11, 2012 -- Bejing+Shanghai, China Details http://openstack.csdn.net/index.html Openstack User Group Meetup ( Delhi NCR ) http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/75533162/ Aug 12, 2012 -- Dehli Details http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/75533162/ * Hobart Meetup -- adjacent to PyCon2012, An OpenStack code dojo! http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/72708142/ Aug 17, 2012 -- Hobart, Australia Details http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/72708142/ * Australian OpenStack User Group -- Adelaide Meetup with SAGE-AU http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/66911242/ Aug 28, 2012 -- Adelaide Details http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/66911242/ * OpenStack Summit http://openstack.org/ Oct 15 -- 18, 2012 -- San Diego, CA

Other news

* Security update: CVE-2012-3426 : Keystone does not properly implement token expiration http://secstack.org/2012/08/cve-2012-3426-keystone-does-not-properly-implement-token-expiration/ * OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-07-31: Summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-31-21.02.html Meeting log http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-31-21.02.log.html * OpenStack PPB Meeting 2012-07-31: Summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-31-20.06.html and Meeting log http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-07-31-20.06.log.html

o Voted on Agreement on proposed API Stability Statement http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Approved/APIStability o Voted on Creating a "supporting" project official category http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Accepted/SupportingProjectDefinition

Stats from traffic on docs.openstack.org

Statistics taken from the traffic on docs.openstack.org, from January 1st 2012 to July 31st.

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Country/Territory visits to docs.openstack.org from Jan 1 2012 to July 31 2012

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