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            Last newsletter of 2014, see you again in 2015!


University of Hawaii College of Education harnesses OpenStack to support
faculty research via a secure private cloud

OpenStack powers a Holodeck at University of Hawaii at Manoa... Read the
full story on Mirantis blog.


The TOSCA Cloud State of the Union

A nice summary of the status of OpenStack Heat and the relation between
the different specifications to describe topology and orchestration in
cloud world.


Relevant Conversations

      * Application level HA via Heat 
      * The state of nova-network to neutron migration 
      * [Openstack-operators] Packaging sample config versions  

Deadlines and Development Priorities

      * [nova] Kilo Project Priorities 
      * Neutron Priorities for Kilo 
      * [Nova] Mid-cycle meetup details for kilo

Security Advisories and Notices

      * [OSSA-2014-041] Glance v2 API unrestricted path traversal

Reports from Previous Events

      * Rhones-Alpes meetup summary

Tips ‘n Tricks

      * By Lars Kellogg-Stedman: Accessing the serial console of your
        Nova servers
      * By Darryl Cauldwell:Create A vSphere OpenStack Glance Windows VM
        Image 

Upcoming Events

2015 OpenStack Foundation Events Plan and Calls for Papers Available.
The 2015 events plan is now available on the Global Events Calendar
wiki. The detailed spreadsheet covers industry events, Summits (dates
and locations), as well as regional OpenStack Days organized by the
community.  If you’re interested in sponsoring or speaking at a planned
OpenStack Day, please contact the contact listed in the spreadsheet.


      * [Call for Speaker, Sponsor, Participants] OpenStack Day in Korea
        - Feb. 05, 2015
      * Jan 15, 2015 Deep Dive into Trove Austin, Texas, US
      * Feb 05, 2015 OpenStack Day in Korea Seoul, Seoul, KR
      * Feb 19 - 20, 2015 World Techies Forum Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN
      * Apr 13 - 14, 2015 OpenStack Live Santa Clara, CA, US
      * Apr 22 - 23, 2015 China SDNNFV Conference Beijing, CN
      * May 18 - 22, 2015 OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver, BC
      * Sep 17, 2015 OpenStack Benelux Conference 2015 Bussum, NL

Other News

      * Volunteers needed for OpenStack Stand at FOSDEM in Brussels 
      * Symantec joins OpenStack Foundation as Gold Member!
      * Keystone Middleware 1.3.1 release 
      * OpenStack Crossproject Meeting: suspended for holidays.

Got Answers?

Ask OpenStack is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting
questions waiting for answers:


      * how to extract the image details from glance api
      * HEAT grub commands for CentOS 7 Nova Instance
      * swift change replication address
      * Solaris 11.2 Openstack - CSRF Verification failed
      * How to retrieve ceilometer statistics for the meter
        "network.incoming.bytes" for an instance
      * Nova Scheduler warning "Host has more disk space than database
        expected" on launching instances
      * How to configure VirtualBox based testing environment?
        
        
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