Seven habits of highly effective OpenStack contributors

If you want to be an awesome OpenStack contributor, there’s a formula for that. So says Adrian Otto, who should know. Otto is a distinguished architect at Rackspace, chairman of the OpenStack containers team, current project team lead (PTL) for Magnum and launched the Solum project back in 2013.

Ops Mid-Cycle Meetup in Palo Alto, Aug 18-19

We finalized the dates and location of the Ops mid-cycle meetup. Due to timing and the size of our growing event, the best option to accommodate 300 people (if needed) will be Crowne Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto, CA, August 18-19, 2015. Register now and join the brainstorming to define the agenda.

The Road to Tokyo

• IMPORTANT AND TIME SENSITIVE: Need a visa for the Tokyo Summit? Here’s what you need to know
  
• Interested in being a Tokyo Summit Sponsor?
  
• How to craft a successful OpenStack Summit proposal
  
• Tips for getting a travel grant to the next OpenStack Summit
  
• Accepting presentation submissions until July 15th, 2015, 11:59 pm PDT
  

Reports from Previous Events

• Third OpenStack CEE Day grows by 35 percent
  

Relevant Conversations

• Strategy to port Swift to Python 3
  
• [Neutron] Linux Bridge CI status report
  
• Thoughts on ReleaseNoteImpact git commit message tag
  

Deadlines and Contributors Notifications

• Full list of mid-cycle sprints (meetups)
  
• CHANGED TIME AND VENUE: Product WG Liberty Meetup: August 20-21-12, 2015 @Cisco, San Jose, CA
  

Security Advisories and Notices

• [OSSN 0049] Nova ironic driver logs sensitive information while operating in debug mode
  

Tips ‘n Tricks

• By Jake Girouard: Mirantis Training Blog: User Deletion and User VMs
  
• By Gorka Eguileor: Inside Cinder’s Incremental Backup
  
• By Spencer Smith: Up and running with Docker Machine and OpenStack
  
• By Dan Smith: Upgrading Nova to Kilo with minimal downtime
  
• By Steve Martinelli: Viewing Keystone CADF notifications with Ceilometer and RabbitMQ
  
• By Craige McWhirter: How To Delete a Cinder Snapshot with a Status of error or error_deleting With Ceph Block Storage
  

Open Call for Proposals

• OpenStack Summit Tokyo, open until July 15
  

Recently Merged Specs

Upcoming Events

Celebrating 5 Years of OpenStack at OSCON on Wednesday, July 22nd: RSVP

• Jul 11, 2015 OpenStack's 5th Birthday Party "Bangalore Chapter" Bangalore, IN
  
• Jul 11, 2015 OpenStack 5th B-Day – Nairobi Nairobi, KE
  
• Jul 11, 2015 西 安openstack meetup一周年庆 Xian, CN
  
• Jul 11, 2015 OpenStack's 5th Birthday Party "New Delhi Chapter" New Delhi, IN
  
• Jul 12, 2015 OpenStack 5th Birthday Party Shenzhen, CN
  
• Jul 12, 2015 OpenStack Translators Meet Up Beijing, CN
  
• Jul 13, 2015 5周年特別企画 OpenStack Summitの歩き方 Tokyo, JP
  
• Jul 13, 2015 OpenStack 5th Birthday Celebration! Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL
  
• Jul 14, 2015 Openstack V Birthday
  
• Jul 16, 2015 OpenStack L.A. 5th Birthday Meetup Los Angeles, CA, US
  
• Jul 17 - 18, 2015 OpenStack Thailand 2015 Bangkok, TH
  
• Jul 20 - 24, 2015 OSCON 2015 Portland, OR, US
  
• Jul 22, 2015 5 Years of OpenStack Portland, Oregon, US
  
• Jul 22, 2015 OpenStack 5th Birthday Russia Moscow, Moscow, RU
  
• Jul 28, 2015 OpenStack 5th Birthday – Austin Austin, Texas, US
  
• Jul 30 - 31, 2015 DCD INTERNET San Francisco, CA, US
  
• Jul 31 2015 OpenStack Mini Conference Pycon, Brisbane, AU
  
• Aug 07 - 08, 2015 OpenStack Day India 2015 Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
  
• Aug 10 - 13, 2015 Gartner Catalyst Conference San Diego, CA, US
  
• Aug 11, 2015 OpenStack Day Taiwan 2015 Taipei, TW
  
• Aug 13 - 14, 2015 OpenStack Collective Austin, TX, US
  
• Aug 19 - 21, 2015 China Liberty Hackathon Xian, Shanxi, CN
  
• Aug 20, 2015 OpenStack Day Seattle 2015 Seattle, WA, US
  
• Aug 25, 2015 OpenStack Trove Day 2015 San Jose, CA, US
  
• Aug 26 - 27, 2015 OpenStack Silicon Valley Mountain View, California, US
  
• Aug 27, 2015 OpenStack Nova Deep Dive Meetup Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, RO
  
• Sep 19, 2015 OpenStack Benelux Conference 2015 Bussum, NL
  
• Sep 21 - 24, 2015 Storage Developer Conference Santa Clara, CA, CA, US
  
• Oct 04 - 08, 2015 Gartner SymposiumITxpo Orlando, FL, US
  
• Nov 05, 2015 #CloudBeerStockholm Stockholm, SE
  
• Nov 15 - 20, 2015 Supercomputing 15 Austin, TX, US
  

Other News

• What's Up, Doc? 10 July 2015
  
• Officially forming project under User committee and repo
  

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