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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Sep 28-Oct 5)
Highlights of the week


Full steam towards the OpenStack Summit Fall 2012
<http://www.openstack.org/summit/san-diego-2012/>

Whether you want to build the software, run it, grow the community or
just learn more about it, there will be content, workshops and design
sessions for you to attend at the OpenStack Summit, Oct 15-18 in San
Diego. Registration still open
<http://openstacksummitfall2012.eventbrite.com/>, and the agenda
(almost) complete <http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/>. Stick
around Friday for the first OpenStack service day, a 1/2 day beach
cleanup <https://openstack-beach-cleanup.eventbrite.com/>.


Contributing OpenStack Support to jclouds
<http://blog.phymata.com/2012/10/03/contributing-openstack-support-to-jclouds/>

jclouds <http://www.jclouds.org/> is a popular cross-cloud toolkit that
covers an impressive number of public and private cloud providers. There
are lots of advantages for both projects to help each other. Read the
article Everett Toews <http://blog.phymata.com/> wrote to get started
contributing OpenStack support to jclouds.


Tracking OpenStack adoption / Discussion at Summit
<http://markmail.org/message/5gplkacmj5ydz2f3>

One of the objectives of the OpenStack Foundation is to "Make OpenStack
the ubiquitous cloud operating system". In order to reach that objective
the Foundation needs to understand more about the usage of the OpenStack
software. OpenStack distributions are requested to participate in this
conversation at the OpenStack Design Summit
<http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/64>.


Providing a Unified View of OpenStack Projects
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/09/providing-a-unified-view-of-openstack-projects/>

Want to find answers to questions like: who's contributing to that
particular feature of OpenStack? What is that developer working on? How
many work hours/lines of code went into adding that feature/blueprint?
What are users saying about OpenStack? Watch the recordings of the
webinar <http://youtu.be/IFHFkwABEzc> and provide feedback answering the
four simple questions in the survey
<https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/78JXGLC>. Don't miss the talk on
Wednesday, October 17 in San Diego
<http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/event/a5194145c6d2667d3e9d83a5d012bf83?iframe=no&w=700&sidebar=no&bg=no>.


Security Advisory

* CVE-2012-4456 : Some actions in Keystone admin API do not validate
token
<http://secstack.org/2012/10/cve-2012-4456-some-actions-in-keystone-admin-api-do-not-validate-token/>
* CVE-2012-4457 : Token authorization for a user in a disabled tenant
is allowed
<http://secstack.org/2012/10/cve-2012-4457-token-authorization-for-a-user-in-a-disabled-tenant-is-allowed/>


Tips and tricks

* By SwiftStack Team <http://swiftstack.com/>: (Un)Official Party
Guide for the OpenStack Summit in San Diego 2012
<http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/10/04/parties-at-the-openstack-summit/>
* By Mate Lakat <http://blogs.citrix.com/>: Convert a raw image to
XenServer -- VHD
<http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/10/04/convert-a-raw-image-to-xenserver-vhd/>
* By Ryan Lane <http://ryandlane.com/blog>: Extending a flatdhcp
network the hard way
<http://ryandlane.com/blog/2012/10/03/extending-a-flatdhcp-network-the-hard-way/>


Upcoming Events

* Help needed to organize the OpenStack devroom for *FOSDEM* 2013
<http://markmail.org/message/7ridfk4vgilz7slj>
* OpenStack Summit <http://openstack.org/> Oct 15 -- 18, 2012 -- San
Diego, CA
* Swiss OpenStack user group meeting
<http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/82917082/> Nov 15, 2012 --
Zürich, CH


Other news

* OpenStack China Tour #2 Shenzhen
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/09/openstack-china-tour-2-shenzhen/>Report
from the second stop of OpenStack China Tour, Shenzhen
<http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=135>
* Andrew Hutchings <http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/search/label/openstack>
gave a keynote to O'Reilly Velocity Europe titled: Openstack --
Coding at Scale Keynote
<http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/2012/10/openstack-coding-at-scale-keynote.html>
* Ceilometer release status 2012-10-05
<http://markmail.org/message/xys4xmfe3pn5c3f5>
* What's up doc? Oct 3 2012
<http://markmail.org/message/sxlh3gykzd3cy4ar> News from Doc Land,
"where grammarians reign and roam"
* Motion to validate Ceilometer's application as incubated project
<http://markmail.org/message/jdjziekorrmfv4v3>
* Happy Birthday Hastexo! One year in!
<http://www.hastexo.com/blogs/florian/2012/10/04/one-year>
* OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-10-02: Summary
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-02-21.01.html>
and full logs
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-02-21.01.log.html>

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