[openstack-announce] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 10 – 17)

Stefano Maffulli stefano at openstack.org
Fri Jan 17 23:18:53 UTC 2014


      Election Results for Individual and Gold Directors
      <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/01/election-results-for-individual-and-gold-directors/>

Each January two of the Foundation member classes hold elections to
determine their Board representatives for 2014. The Gold Members held
their election on January 6th-7th while Individual Members elected their
Directors between Jan 12th-17th.
<http://www.openstack.org/election/2014-individual-director-election/>

Today the 2014 election of Individual Directors has closed and the
official results are in
<https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=36403DCmZevPaCKyfNXeAE6Q>.
The elected and appointed directors will be seated at the next board
meeting, at 12:00pm PST on January 30th
<https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/30Jan2014BoardMeeting>.
Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Individual
Director election and congratulations to our new and returning
directors. The composition of the board is on OpenStack
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/01/election-results-for-individual-and-gold-OpenStack>blog
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/01/election-results-for-individual-and-gold-directors/>.


      Atlanta Summit – Call for Speakers Open + Sponsor & Registration
      Info
      <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/01/atlanta-summit-call-for-speakers-open-sponsor-registration-info/>

Marching rapidly to our next big gathering: the OpenStack Summit will be
held in Atlanta, Georgia May 12-16, 2014. The official page for Atlanta
<http://openstack.org/summit> contains the latest announcements. The
Summit is a five-day conference for OpenStack contributors, enterprise
users, service providers, application developers and ecosystem members.
 Attendees can expect visionary keynote speakers, 200+ breakout
sessions, hands-on workshops, collaborative design sessions and lots of
networking. Keynote sessions will take place Monday and Tuesday, the
main conference will run Monday – Thursday. The Design Summit, a special
track for active technical contributors to plan the next software
release, will run Tuesday – Friday.


      Where to ask question and find help OPW Experience with OpenStack
      Part 1
      <http://mirandazhangq.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/where-to-ask-question-and-find-help-opw-experience-with-openstack-part-1/>

One of our awesome intern from the Outreach Program for Women (OPW)
shares her experience towards solving a problem while getting stared
with OpenStack.


      Organizing a Gate Blocking Bug Fix Day – Mon Jan 27th
      <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-January/023859.html>

Developers may have noticed issues with our gate and in order to improve
the situation Sean Dague proposed a Gate Blocking Bug Fix Day on Jan
27^th . All developers are encouraged to focus on fixing bugs on the
OpenStack CI infrastructure.


    Tips ‘n Tricks

  * By Cristian Falcas: script to build epubs from openstack
    documentation
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/2013-December/004304.html>
  * By Andreas Jaeger
    <http://jaegerandi.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenStack>: Validating
    OpenStack API projects
    <http://jaegerandi.blogspot.com/2014/01/validating-openstack-api-projects.html>
  * By Lars Kellogg-Stedman <http://blog.oddbit.com/>: Stupid OpenStack
    Tricks <http://blog.oddbit.com/2014/01/16/stupid-openstack-tricks>
    and Direct access to Nova metadata
    <http://blog.oddbit.com/2014/01/14/direct-access-to-nova-metadata>
  * By Konstantin Danilov
    <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/improve-performance-python-programs-restricting-single-cpu/>:
    Edge of the Stack: Improve Performance of Python Programs by
    Restricting Them to a Single CPU
    <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/improve-performance-python-programs-restricting-single-cpu/>
  * By Fabien Boucher:
    <http://techs.enovance.com/6642/openstack-swift-as-backend-for-git-part-1>
    OpenStack Swift as backend for Git – Part 1
    <http://techs.enovance.com/6642/openstack-swift-as-backend-for-git-part-1>
  * By Aditya Patawari
    <http://blog.adityapatawari.com/search/label/OpenStack>: OpenStack
    101: How to Setup OpenStack Swift (OpenStack Object Storage Service)
    <http://blog.adityapatawari.com/2014/01/openstack-101-how-to-setup-openstack_12.html>
    and OpenStack 101: How to Setup OpenStack Keystone (OpenStack
    Identity Service)
    <http://blog.adityapatawari.com/2014/01/openstack-101-how-to-setup-openstack.html>
  * By James Slagle <http://blog-slagle.rhcloud.com/>: Intro to some
    Python dependencies of OpenStack <http://blog-slagle.rhcloud.com/?p=124>


    Upcoming Events

  * 3rd OpenStack User Group Nordics meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/141728912/>
    Jan 15, 2014 – Stockholm, Sweden Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Nordics/events/141728912/>
  * Austin OpenStack User Group Meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/154504332/> Jan 22,
    2014 – Austin, Texas Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/154504332/>
  * Boston OpenStack User Group Meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/154504602/> Jan 22,
    2014 – Boston, MA Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/154504602/>
  * OpenStack: Breaking into the Enterprise Forum
    <http://www.openstackenterpriseforum.com/> Jan 29, 2014 – Mountain
    View, CA Details <http://www.openstackenterpriseforum.com/>
  * Implementing OpenStack
    <https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cf7dhlhfg5qa6s6ts3deabrnte0>,
    Jan 29, 2014 12pm PST – [Webinar] Details
    <https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cf7dhlhfg5qa6s6ts3deabrnte0>
  * FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/2014/> Feb 01 – 02, 2014 – Bruxelles,
    Belgium Details <https://fosdem.org/2014/>
  * OpenStack Days – Tokyo 2014 <http://www.openstackdays.com/en/> Feb
    13 – 14, 2014 – Tokyo, Japan Details <http://www.openstackdays.com/en/>
  * Korea OpenStack Day <http://onoffmix.com/event/22995> Feb 18, 2014 –
    Seoul, South Korea Details <http://onoffmix.com/event/22995>
  * OpenStack India Meetup
    <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/160120142/> Feb
    22, 2014 – Hyderabad, India Details
    <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/160120142/>
  * Open Cloud Summit at IBM Pulse
    <http://www.ibmpulseblog.com/second-open-cloud-summit-at-pulse-sunday-february-23rd-from-4-6-p-m/>
    Feb 23 – 26, 2014 – Las Vegas, Nevada Details
    <http://www.ibmpulseblog.com/second-open-cloud-summit-at-pulse-sunday-february-23rd-from-4-6-p-m/>
  * Mobile World Congress <http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/> Feb 24 –
    27, 2014 – Barcelona, Spain Details
    <http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/>
  * Cloud Connect Summit at Interop
    <http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/conference/cloud-connect.php> Mar
    31 – Apr 01, 2014 – Las Vegas, Nevada Details
    <http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/conference/cloud-connect.php>
  * World Hosting Days <http://www.worldhostingdays.com/eng/> Apr 01 –
    03, 2014 – Rust, Germany Details <http://www.worldhostingdays.com/eng/>
  * PyCon <https://us.pycon.org/2014/> Apr 09 – 17, 2014 – Montreal,
    Canada Details <https://us.pycon.org/2014/>
  * OpenStack Summit May 2014
    <http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/> May
    12 – 16, 2014 – Atlanta, GA Details
    <http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/>
  * Cloud World Forum <http://cloudwf.com/> Jun 17 – 18, 2014 – London,
    UK Details <http://cloudwf.com/>


    Security Advisories

  * [OSSA 2014-002] Swift TempURL timing attack (CVE-2014-0006)
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-January/000185.html>
  * [OSSA 2014-001] Nova live snapshots use an insecure local directory
    (CVE-2013-7048)
    <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-January/000184.html>


    Reports from Previous Events

  * Podcast with Mark Collier, COO of OpenStack Foundation
    <http://www.hpcloud.com/blog/podcast-mark-collier-coo-openstack-foundation>
  * Final day at LCA 2014 with more OpenStack
    <http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=8982>


    Other News

  * StoryBoard sprint in Brussels
    <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StoryBoard/Brussels_Sprint>
  * Open Mic Spotlight: Jay Lau
    <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/01/open-mic-spotlight-jay-lau/>
  * Improving Trove Architecture Design with Conductor Service
    <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/improving-trove-architecture-design-conductor-service/>
  * The remarkable growth of Swift – and what it means in 2014 (and
    beyond)
    <http://swiftstack.com/blog/2014/01/14/The-remarkable-growth-of-Swift-and-what-it-means-in-2014-and-beyond/>
  * Exploring why people contribute to OpenStack
    <http://maffulli.net/2014/01/13/exploring-why-people-contribute-to-openstack/>
  * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2014/project.2014-01-14-21.02.html>
    and full logs
    <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2014/project.2014-01-14-21.02.log.html>.


    Got Answers?

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

  * How to create multiple regions using Packstack on Havana
    <https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10300/how-to-create-multiple-regions-using-packstack-on-havana/>
  * how to plot rally results ?
    <https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10439/how-to-plot-rally-results/>
  * How to interpret “sample user_id” in Ceilometer documentation
    <https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10350/how-to-interpret-sample-user_id-in-ceilometer-documentation/>
  * Neutron fails to connect to AMQP Server on Fedora 20
    <https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10363/neutron-fails-to-connect-to-amqp-server-on-fedora-20/>
  * Launch instances using boto
    <https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10383/launch-instances-using-boto/>
  * SSH Access Permission denied
    <https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10457/ssh-access-permission-denied/>
  * What’s the status about Instance Resource Quota now?
    <https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/10489/whats-the-status-about-instance-resource-quota-now/>


    Welcome New Reviewers and Developers

Is your affiliation correct? Check your profile in the OpenStack
Foundation Members Database! <http://www.openstack.org/profile/>

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    Latest Activity In Projects

Do you want to see at a glance the bugs filed and solved this week?
Latest patches submitted for review? Check out the individual project
pages on OpenStack Activity Board – Insights
<http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/>.

  * Telemetry (Ceilometer)
    <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/ceilometer>
  * Block Storage (Cinder)
    <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/cinder>
  * Image Service (Glance)
    <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/glance>
  * Orchestration API
    <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/heat> (Heat)
    <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/heat>
  * Dashboard (Horizon)
    <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/horizon>
  * Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic)
    <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/ironic>
  * Identity (Keystone)
    <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/keystone>
  * Manuals
    <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/openstack-manuals>
  * Networking (Neutron)
    <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/neutron>
  * Compute (Nova) <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/nova>
  * Hadoop Cluster as a Service (Savanna)
    <http://stackalytics.com/?release=icehouse&metric=commits&project_type=openstack&module=savanna-group&company=&user_id=>
  * Object Storage (Swift)
    <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/swift>
  * Database As A Service (Trove)
    <http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/trove>

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