Open Stack

    Highlights of the week


      Important CLA changes coming this weekend (2nd try)
      <http://markmail.org/message/azrdwianmnt2j5oc>

Last weekend the change was blocked at the last minute by a request to 
amend the CLA text. We're trying again this weekend.

Starting on March 3, 2013 1700UTC all contributors MUST review and agree 
to the new OpenStack Individual Contributor License Agreement and 
provide updated contact information at 
https://review.openstack.org/#/settings/agreements. On that day the 
Gerrit interface will be changing to present the new CLA text referring 
to the OpenStack Foundation, and will prompt you to agree to it there. 
Any previous agreement with OpenStack LLC will be marked expired at that 
time. The text of the new agreement is available for your convenience 
<https://review.openstack.org/static/cla.html>. You must also sign up 
for an OpenStack Foundation Individual Membership with the same E-mail 
address as used for your Gerrit contact information: 
http://openstack.org/register/.


      What's new in OpenStack Grizzly ?
      <http://www.enovance.com/%25postname>

Folsom brought us two new core projects : Quantum 
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Quantum> (Networking) and Cinder 
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder> (Volumes). Two new projects 
have been incubated : Ceilometer 
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ceilometer> (metering) led by Nicolas 
Barcet <http://fr.linkedin.com/in/nbarcet> (VP Products at eNovance), 
and Heat <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat> (Cloud Orchestration). 
Oslo <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo> is a new incubated project 
which produces a set of python libraries containing infrastructure code 
shared by all OpenStack projects. More details for each OpenStack 
project on this post by eNovance.


      OpenStack Ceilometer and Heat projects graduated
      <http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2013/openstack-ceilometer-head-graduated>

The OpenStack Technical Committee 
<http://www.openstack.org/foundation/technical-committee/> have voted 
these last weeks about graduation of Heat <https://launchpad.net/heat> 
and Ceilometer <http://launchpad.net/ceilometer>, to change their status 
from /incubation/ to /integrated/*. *Heat and Ceilometer will be 
released as part as OpenStack for the next release cycle /Havana/, due 
in October 2013.


      **Raspberry Pi as a transparent squid caching proxy*
      <http://blog.stevebaker.org/2013/02/raspberry-pi-as-transparent-squid.html>*

How does a hacker improve build times when he has a slow Internet 
connection? A fascinating use of a tiny sub-$50 computer (RaspberryPi) 
to build cloud images for OpenStack. By Steve Baker 
<http://blog.stevebaker.org/search/label/openstack>


      **Data placement in OpenStack Object Storage Swift*
      <http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/02/25/data-placement-in-swift/>*

Technical deep dive in how OpenStack Object Storage solves one of the 
hard problems of all distributed storage system: how to effectively 
place the data within the storage cluster. Swift has a 
"unique-as-possible" placement algorithm which ensures that the data is 
placed efficiently and with as much protection from hardware failure as 
possible.


      **The life of an OpenStack libvirt image*
      <http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/openstack_libvirt_images/#1361764412>*

The main stages of a Virtual Machine disk image as it transfers through 
OpenStack to be booted under libvirt explained by Pádraig Brady 
<http://www.pixelbeat.org/>.


    Security Advisories

  * OSSA-2013-006] VNC proxy can connect to the wrong VM (CVE-2013-0335)
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-February/000082.html>


    Tips and Tricks

  * By Daniel P. Berrangé <https://www.berrange.com/>: Installing a 4
    node Fedora 18 OpenStack Folsom cluster with PackStack
    <https://www.berrange.com/posts/2013/03/01/installing-a-4-node-fedora-18-openstack-folsom-cluster-with-packstack/>
  * By Victoria Martínez de la Cruz <http://vmartinezdelacruz.com/>:
    Attention newcomers! #openstack-101 is now open at Freenode
    <http://vmartinezdelacruz.com/attention-newcomers-openstack-101-is-now-open-at-freenode/>
  * By Anita Kuno <http://anteaya.info/>: The Structure and Habits of
    Git
    <http://anteaya.info/blog/2013/02/26/the-structure-and-habits-of-git/>
  * By Andreas Jaeger
    <http://jaegerandi.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenStack>:
    Coordinating efforts to create OpenStack packages for openSUSE and
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
    <http://jaegerandi.blogspot.com/2013/02/coordinating-efforts-to-create.html>


    Upcoming Events

  * OpenStack Sessions @ Barcamp Bangalore13
    <http://barcampbangalore.org/bcb/event/bcb13> Mar 02, 2013 --
    Bangalore, India Details <http://barcampbangalore.org/bcb/event/bcb13>
  * Pulse Open Cloud Summit
    <http://www.ibmpulseblog.com/new-pulse-open-cloud-summit-arrive-early-on-sunday-march-3rd-and-extend-your-pulse-experience/>Mar
    03, 2013 -- MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV Details
    <http://www.ibmpulseblog.com/new-pulse-open-cloud-summit-arrive-early-on-sunday-march-3rd-and-extend-your-pulse-experience/>
  * Pulse 2013
    <https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html> Mar
    04 -- 06, 2013 -- Las Vegas, NV Details
    <https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html>
  * OpenStack Day Tokyo 2013 <http://openstackdays.com/en/> Mar 12, 2013
    -- Tokyo, Japan Details <http://openstackdays.com/en/>
  * OpenStack Italia User Group: ...dove eravamo rimasti?
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/102481022/> Mar
    14, 2013 -- Milano, Italy Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/102481022/>
  * PyCon 2013 & Job Fair <https://us.pycon.org/2013/> Mar 14 -- 17,
    2013 -- Santa Clara, CA Details <https://us.pycon.org/2013/>
  * OpenStack Meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/105831232/> Mar
    17, 2013 -- Bangalore, India Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/105831232/>
  * OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) API Sprint at PyCon 2013
    <https://us.pycon.org/2013/community/sprints/swift/> Mar 18, 2013 --
    Santa Clara, CA Details
    <https://us.pycon.org/2013/community/sprints/swift/>
  * OpenStack Paris Meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/104394682/> Mar 19,
    2013 -- Paris, France Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/104394682/>
  * World Hosting Days 2013
    <http://www.worldhostingdays.com/eng/index.php> Mar 19 -- 21, 2013
    -- Rust, Germany Details <http://www.worldhostingdays.com/eng/index.php>
  * OpenStack Developers Meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/> Mar 21, 2013 -- Atlanta,
    GA Details <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/>
  * 1st OpenStack User Group Nordics meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/95258382/> Apr
    03, 2013 -- Kista, Sweden Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/95258382/>
  * OpenStack Summit April 2013
    <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/> Apr 15 -- 18, 2013
    -- Portland, OR Details <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/>
  * OpenStack Israel <http://www.openstack.org/> May 27, 2013 --
    Tel-Aviv, Israel Coming Soon <http://www.openstack.org/>
  * GigaOM Structure <http://event.gigaom.com/structure/> Jun 19 -- 20,
    2013 -- San Francisco, CA Details <http://event.gigaom.com/structure/>


    Reports from past events

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            OpenStack Delhi Meetup
            <http://www.hastexo.com/blogs/syed/2013/02/25/openstack-delhi-meetup>


    Other News

  * The path to Ask OpenStack
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/community/2013-February/000153.html>
  * OpenStack Unit Testing: a Long Journey Starts With a Small Step
    <http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/openstack-unit-testing-a-long-journey-starts-with-a-small-step/>
  * Session proposals for the Havana Design Summit now open
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-February/005664.html>
  * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-02-26-21.00.html>
    and full logs
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-02-26-21.00.log.html>.


    Welcome New Contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:

  * Jian Zhang, Intel
  * Dae S. Kim
  * Robert van Leeuwen, Spilgames

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