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Highlights of the week


Full steam towards the OpenStack Summit Fall 2012 now SOLD OUT
<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. The agenda is 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/>.


Grizzly Design Summit schedule posted
<http://fnords.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/grizzly-design-summit-schedule-posted/>

Aside from the Grizzly Design Summit
<http://wiki.openstack.org/Summit/Grizzly> sessions, there will be also
a room for an *Unconference*, open from Tuesday to Thursday. You can
grab a 40-min slot there to present anything related to OpenStack! We'll
also have 5-min *Lightning talks* after lunch on Monday-Wednesday where
you can talk about anything you want. There will be a board posted on
the Summit floor, first-come-first-served.


Participating Remotely to OpenStack Summit 2012
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/10/participating-remotely-to-openstack-summit-2012/>

If you can't make it to San Diego but you still want to participate in
the sessions that will shape the future roadmap of OpenStack 'Grizzly'
you can join the live audio streaming events on Webex. Kindly donated by
Cisco Webex team (users of OpenStack themselves
<http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/event/54ea0d2c841925ba397dea8aece6e72c>),
the Webex session will run for the whole day from 9:30am to 6:00pm for
each of the rooms Emma AB
<http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/venue/Emma%20AB>, Emma C
<http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/venue/Emma%20C>, Windsor BC
<http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/venue/Windsor%20BC>, Annie AB
<http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/venue/Annie%20AB> where the
Design Summit
<http://openstacksummitfall2012.sched.org/overview/type/design+summit>
will happen.


8 OpenStack Questions? Answered.
<http://www.mirantis.com/blog/8-openstack-questions-answered/>

/GigaOm/'s Barb Darrow intrigued the cloud community with her 8
questions about OpenStack
<http://gigaom.com/cloud/top-8-questions-for-the-openstack-summit/> as
the next summit approaches. Boris Renski didn't resist answering to all
of them.


How Sina Contributes to OpenStack
<http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/10/how-sina-contributes-to-openstack/>

Sina keeps increasing its investments on OpenStack: not only code
contributions for theFolsom release but also promotion of the project
all across China and StackLab.org <http://StackLab.org/> (since
trystack.org is not accessible from China).


XenServer 6.1, XCP 1.6 and OpenStack Folsom
<http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/10/10/xenserver-6-1-xcp-1-6-and-openstack-folsom/>

In other words, what Citrix contributed to Folsom: lots of nice things.


How swift is your Swift? Benchmarking OpenStack Swift.
<http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=947>

The OpenStack Swift project has been developing at a tremendous pace.
The version 1.6.0 was released in August followed by 1.7.4 (Folsom
<http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/Folsom>) just after two months!
In these two recent releases, many important features have also been
implemented, for example the optimization for using SSD, object
versioning, StatsD logging and much more -- many of these features have
significant implications for performance planning for the cloud builders
and operators. Zmanda talks about benchmarks for Swift.


What prevents you from becoming a contributor to OpenStack.
<http://syedarmani.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-start-contributing-to-openstack.html>

Syed Armani asked to participants to Indian OpenStack user group
meetings what prevents them to become contributors. Interesting
findings, we may want to expand the survey.


Tips and tricks

* By Mirantis <http://www.mirantis.com/>: Integrating OpenStack
Nova-network with Infoblox IP Address Management
<http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-nova-network-integration-infoblox-address-management/>
* By Mirantis <http://www.mirantis.com/>: Configuring a multi-region
cluster for cloud object storage with OpenStack Swift
<http://www.mirantis.com/blog/configuring-multi-region-cluster-openstack-swift/>
* By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: Delete a VM in error
state (Folsom)
<http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/10/08/delete-a-vm-in-error-state-folsom/>
* By Boden Russell
<http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=8f41411877dcf711f49be866d9c7b60e>:
OpenStack Keystone Workflow & Token Scoping
<https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/e93514d3-c4f0-4aa0-8844-497f370090f5/entry/openstack_keystone_workflow_token_scoping?lang=en>


Upcoming Events

* 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 Cloud Folsom Webcast: Followup on your questions
<http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/>
* Grid Dynamics OpenStack Team <http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/>:
Altai v1.0.1 is outWelcome To OpenStack Nation (Delhi NCR)
<http://syedarmani.blogspot.com/2012/09/welcome-to-openstack-nation-delhi-ncr.html>
* [Ceilometer] Release 0.1 (Folsom)
<http://markmail.org/message/nccxg3m7aokvsgdq>
* OpenStack Nova, Keystone and Horizon 2012.1.3 released
<http://markmail.org/message/yqvid5aob2kog2lg>
* OpenStack Project Meeting 2012-10-09: Summary
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-09-21.01.html>
and full logs
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-10-09-21.01.log.html>.


Chart of the week

Evolution of web traffic on openstack.org in the 6 months period, from
April-September 2012 compared to the previous period October 2011-March
2012.

<http://www.openstack.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/openstackorg-folsom.png>

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