This week the team announced the latest release of OpenStack Object Storage, Swift 1.9.0. The new version added lots of major features thanks to the combined effort of 37 different contributors. Full release notes and download.

OpenStack meets Lisp: cl-openstack-client

A month ago, a mail hit the OpenStack mailing list entitled “The OpenStack Community Welcomes Developers in All Programming Languages“. Julien Danjou has interpreted that as a challenge and in pure hacker spirit he brought Lisp into OpenStack. Welcome cl-openstack-client, the OpenStack client library for Common Lisp!

Introducing the Open Mic Series

We’re excited to introduce the OpenStack Open Mic series, where we’ll be spotlighting technical contributors across our global community during the month of July to celebrate OpenStack’s 3rd birthday. If you are an OpenStack contributor and would like to participate, please check out the instructions and questions, otherwise follow along to learn more about our community!

OpenStack Security Guide now available!

The legendary book sprint method has come through again! This past week in a bunker, I mean, secure location near Annapolis, a team of security experts got together to write the OpenStack Security Guide. Download the epub file and start reading.

The OpenStack Marketing portal

Looking for the latest presentation decks? Official logo? Do you have questions on how to use the OpenStack brand? Need quotes for your press release? Answers to these and more questions can be found on the new OpenStack Marketing portal.

The new OpenStack Internationalization team

The mission of the OpenStack I18N team is to make OpenStack ubiquitously accessible to people of all language backgrounds, by providing a framework to create high quality translations, recruiting contributors and actively managing and planning the translation process. The team has a new mailing list openstack-i18n@list.openstack.org, hangs out on #openstack-translation and holds regular meetings.

Tips ‘n Tricks

Upcoming Events

2nd OpenStack User Group Meeting Jul 11, 2013 – Szczecin, Poland Details
Boston OpenStack Meetup Jul 16, 2013 – Boston Details
OpenStack Meeting at “One Convergence” Jul 21, 2013 – Hyderabad, India Details
OSCON 2013 Jul 22 – 26, 2013 – Portland, OR Details
OpenStack on Ales Sep 30 – Oct 01, 2013 – Bend, OR Details

Reports from Previous Events

Other News

Fedora 19 released, now with official cloud images
Interview with Garima Thockchom from Talligent
Interview with Yves Fauser at VMware
Interview with Nicolas Thomas from Canonical
DreamCon Speaker Series #12: Justin Lund
Informal notes: June 27th OpenStack Foundation Board Meeting
OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary and full logs

Welcome New Developers

Vijendar Komalla, Rackspace
Kwadronaut
Jason Dunsmore, Rackspace
Nachiappan Veerappan Nachiappan, HP
Jordan Pittier, Cloudwatt
Michael Chapman, Cisco
Thomas Spatzier, IBM
Tomasz Paszkowski, Suse
Anthony Dodd, Vbridges
Simo Sorce, Red Hat
Ashwini Shukla, Rackspace
Haneef Ali, HP
Alexander Gordeev, Mirantis
Daniel L Jones, IBM
Jan Grant, HP
HenryGessau, Cisco

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OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) 1.9.0 released