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[openstack-community] Inquiring about interest in Partner Pavilion at Cloud Expo Europe Feb 26-27, 2014 in London
by Kathy Cacciatore 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

We're holding a very good, central, large space at the subject event for an OpenStack Pavilion, similar to what we are doing at OSCON (July 22-26, Portland) and Gartner Data Center Conference (Dec 9-12, Las Vegas - spaces still available!). The venue is ExCeL, which is close to the Canary Wharf financial/business district and easily accessible via public transportation. Two members have expressed interest to date (StackOps and Canonical). We don't have a cost to participate yet; European shows are more expensive than in the US. I expect it to be approximately in the range of $5,000 - 8,000 US. Please let me know if your firm is interested by early next week. This is not a commitment but will give me an idea on how much space to confirm. If you have your own presence at this event, priority will be given to those which do not. Thank you. -- Regards, Kathy Cacciatore OpenStack Industry Event Planner 1-512-970-2807 (mobile) Part time: Monday - Thursday, 9am - 2pm US CT kathyc(a)openstack.org

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[openstack-community] Meeting June 26
by Stefano Maffulli 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

Hello folks I won't be able to join the meeting tomorrow as I'm in an incompatible time zone for two weeks. Feel free to have the meeting without me, I'll send updates to the mailing list regarding the points * evaluate pending issues https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-community * progression of projects: Ask in Chinese, User Group Portal https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/Community Thanks, Stef -- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org

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[openstack-community] Ask OpenStack in Chinese
by Stefano Maffulli 23 Jun '13

23 Jun '13

Hello folks we've started working on Ask OpenStack in Chinese. This is the very first step towards enabling people to ask questions and give answers for OpenStack in many more non-English languages. The plan is to enable Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian and European languages right after Chinese (hopefully before the meeting in Hong Kong). If you want to see a very first demo of Ask in Chinese go to the staging server: http://ask-staging.openstack.org/zh/questions/ Ask OpenStack is powered by the open source software Askbot and the team asked us to help them translating the user interface. The translation is managed via Transifex, like OpenStack translations. https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/askbot/ Do you know somebody that can help us with improving the translations in Chinese (and other languages, too) for Ask OpenStack? We can reward translators with free tickets to the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong. Please contact me in private for the details. Cheers, Stef -- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org

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[openstack-community] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 14 – 21)
by Stefano Maffulli 22 Jun '13

22 Jun '13

Hong Kong Summit – Registration, Call for Speakers & Sponsors Now Open! <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/06/hong-kong-summit-registration-call-fo…> ???????????????????? ???????, ???????? <http://openstacksummitnovember2013.eventbrite.com/> The OpenStack Summit <http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/> is coming to Hong Kong, November 5-8, 2013. Visit http://openstack.org/summit for all the details. Early Bird Registration is now open <http://openstacksummitnovember2013.eventbrite.com/> The call for speakers is now open <http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/become-a-sp…> Potential Sponsors can read the Sponsorship Prospectus <http://www.openstack.org/assets/openstack-f2013-summit-prospectus.pdf> Quantum is no more. Welcome Neutron! <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-June/010628.html> The OpenStack Networking team is happy to announce that the Quantum project will be changing its name to Neutron. You’ll soon see Neutron in lots of places as we work to implement the name change within OpenStack. An history of OpenStack open source project governance <http://fnords.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/history-of-openstack-governance/> Over the last 3 years, the technical governance of the OpenStack open source project evolved a lot, and most recently last Tuesday <https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg24526.html> with the Technical Committee decided on a model with 13 directly-elected members <https://wiki.openstack.org/w/index.php?title=Governance/Foundation/Technica…>, which will be put in place at the Fall 2013 elections. This new model is a direct, representative model, where if you recently authored a change for an OpenStack project, you get one vote, and a chance every 6 months to choose new people to represent you. This model is pretty flexible and should allow for further growth of the project. As far as open source projects governance models go, this is as open, meritocratic, transparent and direct as it gets. Devstack with Quantum in a multi-node configuration <http://xlcloud.org/bin/view/Blog/Devstack+with+Quantum+in+a+multi-node+conf…> A blog post by XLcloud <http://xlcloud.org/bin/view/Blog/OpenStack> shows how to run devstack <http://devstack.org/> with Quantum and the Open vSwitch plugin in a multi-node deployment. The OpenStack testbed will be composed of 2 nodes: * 1 controller node running Nova (including nova-compute) + Quantum + Glance + Keystone services. * 1 compute node running only the nova-compute service + the Quantum agent. This tutorial has been tested on Ubuntu. It should be quite easy to adapt to other distros but as usual YMMV. Heat things up with OpenStack — before your competitors do <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/heat-things-up-with-openstack-before-your-comp…> OpenStack Heat is a (CloudFormation-compatible) template-based system that enables you to specify what should be done, such as performing an action on a number of different servers or spinning up a group of resources (called a stack). The good folks at Mirantis <http://www.mirantis.com/> put together a slideshow that explains what it is and gives you an idea of how it works, both now and coming in Havana. Some horizon enhancements <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/06/17/some-horizon-enhancements/> The road to Havana is long, no milestone in the corner yet, but already some enhancements have been brought to the Horizon interface. Take a quick look at the new fancy stuff in this blog post by Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>! Grizzly Architecture Revisit <http://www.solinea.com/2013/06/15/openstack-grizzly-architecture-revisited/> Ken Pepple <http://ken.pepple.info/> posted the full length article along with several clarifications on the architecture of OpenStack Grizzly. Tips ‘n Tricks * By Sylvain Bauza <http://sbauza.wordpress.com/>: Puppet as a service in Openstack : how to manage different VMs with same hostname <http://sbauza.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/puppet-as-a-service-in-openstack-how…> * By Everett Toews <http://blog.phymata.com/>: jclouds Manual Authentication with OpenStack <http://blog.phymata.com/2013/06/17/jclouds-manual-authentication-with-opens…> * By Steve Dake <http://sdake.wordpress.com/>: Turbocharge DevStack with Raid 0 SSDs <http://sdake.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/turbocharge-devstack-with-raid-0-ssds/> * By Giulio Fidente <http://giuliofidente.com/>: OpenStack Cinder – Configure multiple backends <http://giuliofidente.com/2013/06/openstack-cinder-configure-multiple-backen…> Upcoming Events * OpenStack DevCamp Essen <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/DevCamp/EssenGermany2013> Jun 21 – 23, 2013 – Essen, Germany Details <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/DevCamp/EssenGermany2013> * OpenStack June Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/122386732/> Jun 22, 2013 – Bangalore, India Details <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/122386732/> * OpenStack France Meetup#4 <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/122348852/> Jun 24, 2013 – Paris, France Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/122348852/> * Boston Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/> Jun 25, 2013 – Boston Details <http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/> * OpenStack Rhône-Alpes Meet-up <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Rhone-Alpes/events/123634732/> Jun 27, 2013 – Eybens, France Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Rhone-Alpes/events/123634732/> * EuroPython 2013 <https://ep2013.europython.eu/> Jul 01 – 07, 2013 – Firenze, Italy Details <https://ep2013.europython.eu/> * FISL 14 <http://softwarelivre.org/fisl14> Jul 03 – 06, 2013 – Details <http://softwarelivre.org/fisl14> * 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> * Deploying a 3D Virtual World on OpenStack Cloud <http://www.cyberport.hk/campaign/edm/openstack/eDM/eDM2.html> Jul 05, 2013 – Hong Kong Details <http://www.cyberport.hk/campaign/edm/openstack/eDM/eDM2.html> * Austin Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/> Jul 11, 2013 – Austin Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/> * Boston Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/> Jul 16, 2013 – Boston Details <http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/> * OSCON 2013 <http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013> Jul 22 – 26, 2013 – Portland, OR Details <http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013> Reports from Previous Events * 4th Openstack User Group Meetup Italy: streaming session from Milano <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/06/4th-openstack-user-group-meetup-italy…> Other News * Announcing eDeploy <http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5753/announcing-edeploy>: a new generation tool to manage baremetal deployments and upgrades * Kwapi: an energy efficiency architecture <http://xlcloud.org/bin/view/Blog/Kwapi+an+energy+efficiency+architecture?la…> * Roadmap for Heat Havana (part 1) * Interview with Vincent Untz at SUSE <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/53285837385> * Building Open Source Clouds for Beginners: Join OpenStack 101 Google+ Hangout on 06-24-2013 <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/53265211187> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-06-18-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-06-18-21.…> * OpenStack Community Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack_community/2013/openstack_…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack_community/2013/openstack_…>. Security Advisories * Issues in Keystone middleware memcache signing/encryption feature (CVE-2013-2166, CVE-2013-2167) <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-June/000114.ht…> Welcome New Developers * Xavier Queralt, Red Hat * Yuzlikeev Eduard, Mirantis * jiataotj, IBM * Anthony Woods, Internap Got answers? Ask OpenStack <https://ask.openstack.org/> is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers: * Launching large instance makes all VM’s on compute node basically unresponsive <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2432/launching-large-instance-makes-all-…> * Cinder volume stats fails to execute command for status <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2422/cinder-volume-stats-fails-to-execut…> * How to install openstack from source code <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2427/how-to-install-openstack-from-sourc…> * Are there plans to upgrade the AMQP version? <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2396/are-there-plans-to-upgrade-the-amqp…> * How to enable juju environement settings in the dashboard? <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2385/how-to-enable-juju-environement-set…> * How to create bootable Windows 2012 images for Grizzly? <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2384/how-to-create-bootable-windows-2012…> * wrong password set in api-paste.ini, but still pass the auth <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2365/wrong-password-set-in-api-pasteini-…> * Why are compute meters not visible? <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2327/why-are-compute-meters-not-visible/> * how can we use ceilometer alarm <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2314/how-can-we-use-ceilometer-alarm/> * How to check if ceilometer is collecting data <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2277/how-to-check-if-ceilometer-is-colle…> Love animated GIFs? When I realised the code I was writing for the last two hours was already in Oslo /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please leave a comment./

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[openstack-community] Call for Participation - Open World Forum 2013
by Jonathan Le Lous 21 Jun '13

21 Jun '13

Hi, Today, we don't have OpenStack contributions at this event :-) The Open World Forum is the first European summit to gather political representatives, decision-makers and experts to debate the technological, economic and social impacts that the Free and Open-Source technologies bring to the market. The forum was first held in 2008, and is now organized annually in Paris, France, with more than 200 speakers coming from 24 countries, and a global audience that was 2100-people strong in 2012. The Open World Forum is held in partnership with all the major international communities in Free Software and with the key players in the digital economy. The Open World Forum is back for its sixth edition. It will be held on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of October 2013, and will take place in a completely new setting in order to accommodate a larger audience. This edition will be a milestone on the way to become the premier global event mixing state policies, social concerns, technology and economy. OWF will take place at the Beffroi in Paris, France and will again be organized by Systematic Paris Region. More than 3,000 attendees are expected for this next Edition, reflecting the renovated program. Please submit your proposal for subjects, talks, lectures or participation in panel discussions on one of the following subjects. The submission deadline is set on June 30th, 2013. Submissions will be handled on an ongoing basis. http://openworldforum.org/en/news/CFP/ Regards, Jonathan fr.linkedin.com/in/jonathanlelous/ Twitter / identi.ca: JollFr Blog : http://blog.itnservice.net/

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[openstack-community] Authentication used by REST Proxy plugin
by Julio Carlos Barrera Juez 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hi. We're trying to configure Quantum REST Proxy Plugin to use an external Network service developed by ourselves in the context of OpenNaaS Project [1]. We have developed a REST server to listen Proxy requests. We want to modify Plugin configuration as described in OpenStack official documentation [2] and OpenStack Wiki [3]. What kind of authentication is used by REST Proxy Plugin? Is there any configuration a part of user name and password? It is possible using Basic HTTP Authentication [4]? Thank you! [1] OpenNaaS Project - http://www.opennaas.org/ [2] OpenStack official documentation - http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-network/admin/content/bigswitch_f… [3] OpenStack Wiki - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Quantum/RestProxyPlugin#Quantum_Rest_Proxy_… [4]: Basic HTTP Authentication - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617

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[openstack-community] Configuring Quantum REST Proxy Plugin
by Julio Carlos Barrera Juez 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Hi. We're trying to configure Quantum REST Proxy Plugin to use an external Network service developed by ourselves in the context of OpenNaaS Project [1]. We have developed a REST server to listen Proxy requests. We want to modify Plugin configuration as described in OpenStack official documentation [2] and OpenStack Wiki [3]. It is possible to configure path of the URL in the plugin configuration like server host and port? Thank you! [1] OpenNaaS Project - http://www.opennaas.org/ [2] OpenStack official documentation - http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-network/admin/content/bigswitch_f… [3] OpenStack Wiki - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Quantum/RestProxyPlugin#Quantum_Rest_Proxy_…

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[openstack-community] Quantum Network API 2.0 using XML seralization instead of JSON
by Julio Carlos Barrera Juez 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Is there a way to configure Quantum Network API 2.0 to have XML serialization instead of JSON? It is documented? Have extensions like L3 this option too?

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[openstack-community] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 7 – 14)
by Stefano Maffulli 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

Welcome Heidi, Margie, Jeremy, and Tom to the OpenStack Foundation team! <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/06/welcome-heidi-margie-jeremy-and-tom-t…> Since the Foundation launched last September, we’ve continued to build out a diverse team. This has been a big focus to keep up with the incredible growth in the OpenStack community with another new software release (Grizzly), the Portland Summit with over 2600 people (double San Diego!), and the start of the work to organize the first international Summit in Hong Kong (expecting over 4,000 people). To keep up with such amazing growth, we expanded the team with new roles to drive adoption of the software, support the development process and grow the OpenStack ecosystem. Heidi Bretz joined as Director of Business Development, Margie Callard as Marketing Manager, Jeremy Stanley as Infrastructure Engineer and Tom Fifield as User Community Manager. Openstack Grizzly with Nicira NVP Plugin Provider Router Use Case with NAT <http://www.cloudactual.com/2013/06/openstack-grizzly-with-nicira-nvp.html> This post by Thomas Kraus <http://www.cloudactual.com/search/label/openstack> reviews a common use-case for Openstack Networking and show step by step how to achieve the requirements for this use case using Openstack Networking in the Grizzly release with the Nicira Network Virtualization plugin for Openstack. The OpenStack Community Welcomes Developers in All Programming Languages <http://blog.phymata.com/2013/06/12/the-openstack-community-welcomes-develop…> If you ever encounter someone looking for help with any non-python language, you can always point them to the SDKs wiki page <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SDKs>. They should be able to find their way from there. How non developers can contribute to OpenStack <http://www.muktware.com/5634/how-non-developers-can-contribute-openstack> One common question many of us involved in OpenStack receive is: “I am not a developer: how can I contribute to OpenStack?” Atul Jha wrapped up some possible answers to this question. OpenStack at EuroPython 2013 among Reinassance masterpieces <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/06/openstack-at-europython-2013-among-re…> If you ever wanted the chance to learn about OpenStack and see the masterpieces by Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Leonardo, Ghiberti and so many others your best chance is to join us at Europython 2013 <https://ep2013.europython.eu/>. Hosted in Firenze July 1-7, Europython 2013 will see a massive OpenStack-related presence, including one half day training session to get started. The OpenStack Foundation will have a booth there and most likely a Help Desk session, where people interested can reserve time to talk to OpenStack experts in real life, under the Tuscan sun. Tips ‘n Tricks * By Chmouel Boudjnah <http://blog.chmouel.com/>: How to launch the Swift functional test suite with Keystone <http://blog.chmouel.com/2013/06/14/how-to-launch-the-swift-functional-test-…> * By IBM OpenStack Team <https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/e93514d3-c4f0-4aa0-8844-…>: Keystone Community Work & DevStacking on CentOS <https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/e93514d3-c4f0-4aa0-8844-…> * By TelekomCloud DevOps team <http://telekomcloud.github.io/>: OpenStack Networking High Availability concept <http://telekomcloud.github.io/2013/06/10/openstack-networking-high-availabi…> * By Jay Pipes <http://www.joinfu.com/>: Pushing revisions to a Gerrit code review <http://www.joinfu.com/2013/06/pushing-revisions-to-a-gerrit-code-review/> OpenStack In The Wild * ETC Announces Launch of Production in the Cloud Project <http://www.etcenter.org/2013/05/21/etc-launches-new-production-in-the-cloud…> Upcoming Events * HostingCon <http://www.hostingcon.com/> Jun 17 – 19, 2013 – Austin, Texas Details <http://www.hostingcon.com/> * 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> * OpenStack June Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/122386732/> Jun 22, 2013 – Bangalore, India Details <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/122386732/> * OpenStack France Meetup#4 <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/122348852/> Jun 24, 2013 – Paris, France Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/122348852/> * OpenStack Rhône-Alpes Meet-up <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Rhone-Alpes/events/123634732/> Jun 27, 2013 – Eybens, France Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Rhone-Alpes/events/123634732/> * EuroPython 2013 <https://ep2013.europython.eu/> Jul 01 – 07, 2013 – Firenze, Italy Details <https://ep2013.europython.eu/> * FISL 14 <http://softwarelivre.org/fisl14> Jul 03 – 06, 2013 – Details <http://softwarelivre.org/fisl14> * 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> * Deploying a 3D Virtual World on OpenStack Cloud <http://www.cyberport.hk/campaign/edm/openstack/eDM/eDM2.html> Jul 05, 2013 – Hong Kong Details <http://www.cyberport.hk/campaign/edm/openstack/eDM/eDM2.html> * OSCON 2013 <http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013> Jul 22 – 26, 2013 – Portland, OR Details <http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013> Reports from Previous Events * Trystack.cn meetup with IBM in Beijing <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/06/trystack-cn-meetup-with-ibm-in-beijin…> * Report: June month OpenStack meetup,Chennai, India <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/06/report-june-month-openstack-meetupche…> Other News * OpenStack Networking (Quantum) on XenServer – from Notworking to Networking <http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/06/14/openstack-networking-quantum-on-xenserve…> * Interview with Matt Ray from Opscode <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/52877845651> * Big Data on OpenStack slide deck from Cloud Expo East <http://cloudifysource.tumblr.com/post/52781940548> * Interview with Boris Renski at Mirantis <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/52775999212> * Interview with Dan Dumitriu at Midokura <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/52633792685> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-06-04-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-06-04-21.…> Security Advisories * Unchecked user input in Swift XML responses (CVE-2013-2161) <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-June/000112.ht…> * Authentication bypass when using LDAP backend (CVE-2013-2157) <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-June/000111.ht…> Welcome New Developers * Jianing YANG, UnideStack Got answers? Ask OpenStack <https://ask.openstack.org/> is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers: * Libvirt to ESX (Vmware Hypervisor) <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2040/libvirt-to-esx-vmware-hypervisor/> * Openstack + Xen + Libvirt? <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2015/openstack-xen-libvirt/> * Active Directory Backend for Keystone <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2007/active-directory-backend-for-keysto…> * how to setup openstack grizzly in multinode mode using flat network model <https://ask.openstack.org/question/1924/how-to-setup-openstack-grizzly-in-m…> * How to use python-ceilometerclient <https://ask.openstack.org/question/1929/how-to-use-python-ceilometerclient/> * How to upgrade quantum package to 2013.1.2 <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2202/how-to-upgrade-quantum-package-to-2…> * instance not starting with libvirt-type set to qemu <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2192/instance-not-starting-with-libvirt-…> * why does cirros test image fail to launch? <https://ask.openstack.org/question/2203/why-does-cirros-test-image-fail-to-…> /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please leave a comment./

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[openstack-community] Let's Help OpenStackers in Emerging Countries
by Rafael Knuth 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

Hello, we just recently held our first OSUG in Poland with accompanying Google+ Hangout & IRC Chat session. To our own surprise, we welcomed attendees from 9 different countries - roughly 50 people joined us at peak times. We are now planning monthly meetups (upcoming one will be on July 11th) and we again will have Google+ Hangout & IRC Chat sessions. One of our key takeaways was that many attendees from emerging regions like Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific were not able to join our Google+ Hangout due to bandwidth limitations. We spoke with OpenStackers in Ghana, Ethiopia, India and we came up with the following idea: Why don't we transcribe our Google+ Hangout sessions and distribute that content live via IRC? Obviously, we would need the help a professional transcription service provider and I was wondering if anyone would be interested to support that initiative with a donation? The OpenStack community would benefit in two ways: 1) We would significantly lower barriers for participants from emerging countries. 2) In each online session we would generate a lot of written content that could be reused in various manners - for blog posts, wikis, localization into other languages (as we all know, it's easier to translate texts than videos). Our Polish OSUG would facilitate that service. What are your thoughts? Would you be willing to support that initiative? If so, we would hammer out the details and present you a detailed plan including exact costs for that service. All the best, Rafael

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