[openstack-announce] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 17-24)

Stefano Maffulli stefano at openstack.org
Fri May 24 22:42:36 UTC 2013


      The OpenStack Summit is coming to Hong Kong
      <http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/>

It's official: we're going to Hong Kong on Nov 5-8. The Summit will take 
place at Asia World Expo, a large convention center near the airport 
with a connecting Marriott hotel. The Airport Express train stops within 
Asia World Expo, making it convenient to access from most parts of the 
city. Please check the VISA information page 
<http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/visa-information/> 
and FAQ 
<http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/conference-faq/> 
for more information about your travel plans. We encourage you to book 
early!


      Connecting the dots: Dell stays course on OpenStack private
      <http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/05/23/dell-stays-course-on-openstack-private-2/>

OpenStack Foundation board member Rob Hirschfeld 
<http://robhirschfeld.com/> summarizes the /increasing level of 
investment/ in OpenStack-powered private cloud solutions (Dell 
<http://jobs.dell/>is hiring! 
<http://jobs.dell.com/search/openstack/ASCategory/-1/ASPostedDate/-1/ASCountry/-1/ASState/-1/ASCity/-1/ASLocation/-1/ASCompanyName/-1/ASCustom1/-1/ASCustom2/-1/ASCustom3/-1/ASCustom4/-1/ASCustom5/-1/ASIsRadius/false/ASCityStateZipcode/-1/ASDistance/-1/ASLatitude/-1/ASLongitude/-1/ASDistanceType/-1>). 
Among the things highlighted, the recent announcements are about 
increasing investment where Dell is already successful 
<http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2013/05/22/make-no-mistake-dell-is-more-committed-to-openstack-than-ever.aspx> plus 
accelerating with new features (such as leadership in HyperV enablement 
<http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/dell-sets-the-stage-for-hyper-vs-return-to-openstack.html>).


      An introductory tour of OpenStack Cloud Messaging as a Service
      <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/05/an-introductory-tour-of-openstack-cloud-messaging-as-a-service/>

The need for an OpenStack Messaging Service was recognized by the San 
Diego Grizzly Summit, and in an unconference track design meeting on the 
last day, a crowd of interested people met, talked out some 
requirements, and from that the OpenStack Message Bus 
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Marconi> project was born. It was 
codenamed "Marconi", in honor of Guglielmo Marconi 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi>, the inventor of 
wireless messaging. The Marconi team collaborates on Launchpad 
<https://launchpad.net/marconi>.


      Working with the OpenStack Code Review and CI system -- Chef
      Edition
      <http://www.joinfu.com/2013/05/working-with-the-openstack-code-review-and-ci-system-chef-edition/>

For too long, the state of the OpenStack Chef world had been one of 
duplicative effort, endless forks of Chef cookbooks, and little 
integration with how many of the OpenStack projects choose to control 
source code and integration testing. Recently, however, the Chef + 
OpenStack community has been getting its proverbial act together. Folks 
from lots of companies have come together and pushed to align efforts to 
produce a set of well-documented, flexible, but focused Chef cookbooks 
that install and configure OpenStack services. StackForge now hosting a 
set of Chef cookbooks for OpenStack.


      Virtualizing legacy hardware in OpenStack <http://dachary.org/?p=1991>

Loïc Dachary <http://dachary.org/> summarizes how the French non-profit 
organization April <http://april.org/> migrated the workload of a five 
years old hardware to OpenStack. Instead of migrating each of the 
fourteen vservers <http://linux-vserver.org/> on a Debian GNU/Linux 
lenny <http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/> running a 
*2.6.26-2-vserver-686-bigmem* linux individually to an OpenStack 
instance, it was decided that the vserver host would be copied over to 
an OpenStack instance.


      Discussion lists available in non-English languages
      <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Community#Mailing_lists_in_local_languages>

In order to support our growing international communities the OpenStack 
Infrastructure and the Community team worked to allow groups to create 
mailing lists in languages other than English. People interested in 
discussions in Italian 
<http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-it> and 
Vietnamese 
<http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-vi> can 
join the lists already. A request for a list to discuss in Spanish is 
pending <https://pending/>review 
<https://review.openstack.org/#/c/30495/> and other can be created if 
necessary following the instructions 
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Community#Mailing_lists_in_local_languages>.


    Tips 'n Tricks

  * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: Nova: archive deleted
    rows
    <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/05/23/nova-archive-deleted-rows/>
  * By eNovance <http://www.enovance.com/>: The absolute minimum to get
    you started with Vagrant
    <http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5685/the-absolute-minimum-to-get-you-started-with-vagrant>
  * By eNovance <http://www.enovance.com/>: How to create specific Nova
    flavors for tenants
    <http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5670/how-to-create-specific-nova-flavors-for-tenants>
  * By Russell Bryant <http://russellbryantnet.wordpress.com/>:
    Availability Zones and Host Aggregates in OpenStack Compute (Nova)
    <http://russellbryantnet.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/availability-zones-and-host-aggregates-in-openstack-compute-nova/>
  * By Cloudscaling Engineering <http://engineering.cloudscaling.com/>:
    Stacker Voices: Mark McLoughlin, Red Hat
    <http://engineering.cloudscaling.com/stacker-voices-mark-mcloughlin-red-hat/>


    Security Issues

  * Keystone client local information disclosure (CVE-2013-2013)
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-May/000104.html>


    Upcoming Events

  * OpenStack India Meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/117132352/> May
    26, 2013 -- Bangalore, India at Anuta Network Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/117132352/>
  * OpenStack Israel <http://www.openstack-israel.org/> May 27, 2013 --
    Tel-Aviv, Israel Details <http://www.openstack-israel.org/>
  * Australian OpenStack User Group tri-city Meetup
    <http://aosug.openstack.org.au/> May 27, 2013 -- Australia Details
    <http://aosug.openstack.org.au/>
  * OpenStack at CeBit Australia <http://www.cebit.com.au/> May 28 --
    30, 2013 -- Sidney, Australia Booth in Hall 4 <http://www.cebit.com.au/>
  * OpenStack CEE Day <http://openstackceeday.com/> May 29, 2013 --
    Budapest, Hungary Details <http://openstackceeday.com/>
  * 2013 Beijing Open Source Convention <http://bj-opensource.com/> May
    29, 2013 -- Beijing, China Program <http://bj-opensource.com/>
  * Building an OpenStack Cloud
    <http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108731562/> May
    30, 2013 -- Chicago, IL Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/108731562/>
  * OpenStack Rocks in Poland
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Poland/events/119500792/> Jun
    06, 2013 -- Szczecin, Poland Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Poland/events/119500792/>
  * Cloud Expo East 2013 <http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com/> Jun 10 --
    13, 2013 -- New York City, NY Details
    <http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com/>
  * OpenStack meeting in Munich
    <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/109700562/> Jun 11, 2013
    -- Munich, Germany Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/109700562/>
  * DatacenterDynamics Converged
    <http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/fr/conferences/2013/paris-2013>
    Jun 11, 2013 -- Paris, France Details
    <http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/fr/conferences/2013/paris-2013>
  * GigaOM Structure <http://event.gigaom.com/structure/> Jun 19 -- 20,
    2013 -- San Francisco, CA Details <http://event.gigaom.com/structure/>
  * Openstack a mezza scala!
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/101619052/> Jun
    20, 2013 -- Milano, Italy Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/101619052/>
  * OpenStack DevCamp Essen
    <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/DevCamp/EssenGermany2013> Jun 21 --
    23, 2013 -- Essen, Germany Details
    <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/DevCamp/EssenGermany2013>
  * PyCon Australia -- OpenStack Miniconf
    <http://2013.pycon-au.org/programme/schedule/friday> Jul 05, 2013 --
    Hobart, Australia Details
    <http://2013.pycon-au.org/programme/schedule/friday>


    Other News

  * Interview with John Griffith at SolidFire
    <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/51219217031>
  * Interview with Anne Gentle, OpenStack Technical Writer
    <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/50989644005>
  * OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 10 with Joseph George,
    Director of Product Strategy of Dell's Revolutionary Solutions Team
    <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/51073919838>
  * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-05-21-21.02.html>
    and full logs
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-05-21-21.02.log.html>.


    Welcome New Developers

  * Kanzhe Jiang, Big Switch
  * Marharyta Kislinska
  * Li Yingjun
  * Satyanarayana Patibandla, TCS
  * Ryan Moore, HP
  * Emanuele Rocca, VU University Amsterdam
  * Aditi Raveesh, Rackspace


    Got answers?

Ask OpenStack <https://ask.openstack.org/> is the go-to destination for 
OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:

  * How to add data to tables in horizon Dashboard
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/1572/how-to-add-data-to-tables-in-horizon-dashboard/>
  * Where should I install Dashboard on a 3 nodes architecture?
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/1576/where-should-i-install-dashboard-on-a-3-nodes-architecture/>
  * Migrating from nova-network to quantum
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/1565/migrating-from-nova-network-to-quantum/>
  * How to setup security groups for IPv6 with nova-network?
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/1520/how-to-setup-security-groups-for-ipv6-with-nova-network/>
  * Recommended version of libvirt
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/1388/recommended-version-of-libvirt/>
  * Snapshotting images and cloud-init
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/1492/snapshotting-images-and-cloud-init/>
  * Are there any tuning methods in Openstack
    <https://ask.openstack.org/question/1306/are-there-any-tuning-methods-in-openstack/>

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