OpenStack Turns 4 – It’s Time to Celebrate the Community!

OpenStack celebrates its 4th birthday July 19, and we’re celebrating with the entire OpenStack community during July!  User maturity, software maturity and a focus on cloud software operations are rapidly emerging for OpenStack and none of it would be possible without the quickly growing OpenStack community. There are now more than 70 global user groups and 17,000 community members across 139 countries, spanning more than 370 organizations. This calls for a big toast to the OpenStack community members and our users.

OpenStack Technical Committee Update (July 1)

This week the TC held a special meeting entirely focused on clarifying some points around DefCore and providing some responses to the questions DefCore posed to the TC. A must-read.

We need to start uncovering OpenStack’s Hidden Influencers

After the summit (#afterstack), a few people compared notes and found a common theme in an under served but critical part of the OpenStack community. Sean Roberts, Allison Randall, and Rob Hirschfeld are expanding the discussion to the broader community in a series of blog posts.

Call for Speakers now OPEN – November Summit in Paris

The Call for Speakers is OPEN for the November OpenStack Summit in Paris! Submit your talks here: submit your talks now. Don’t wait! The Call for Speakers will close on July 28 at 11:59pm CDT.

Reports from Previous Events

• PTL Webinars: Icehouse to Juno
• OpenStack – A Global Perspective: Five Things we Learned at OpenStack Events Across Europe and Israel
• Joining the Global Community: European OpenStack Days

Security Advisories and Notices

• Keystone V2 trusts privilege escalation through user supplied project id (CVE-2014-3520)

Tips ‘n Tricks

• By Rob Hirschfeld: You need a Squid Proxy fabric! Getting Ready State Best Practices
• By Aaron Rosen: Bootstrapping Instances via Metadata and Public Cloud Metadata Support!
• By serh: Run monitoring physical devices on devstack and Full-stack Monitoring for OpenStack

Upcoming Events

• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 05, 2014 – Ireland Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 09, 2014 – Athens, Greece Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 09, 2014 – Toulouse, France Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 09, 2014 – Washington, DC Details
• OpenStack 4th BDay Celebration Roma Jul 10, 2014 – Rome, IT Details
• Meetup OpenStack B’ day and Docker! Jul 10, 2014 – Austin, Texas, US Details
• Happy Birthday OpenStack Jul 10, 2014 – Boston, MA, US Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 10, 2014 – Canberra, Australia Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 10, 2014 – Budapest, Hungary Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 10, 2014 – Tokyo, Japan Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 10, 2014 – Sydney, Australia Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 11, 2014 – Melbourne, FL Details
• OpenStack Startup In Xian Jul 12, 2014 – Xian, Shaanxi, CN Details
• OpenStack’s 4th Birthday Party “Bangalore Chapter” Jul 13, 2014 – Bangalore, India Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 14, 2014 – Tehran, Iran Details
• Celebrate OpenStack Icehouse and Juno Jul 15, 2014 – Fort Collins, CO Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 15, 2014 – Fairfield, CT Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 15, 2014 – London, UK Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 16, 2014 – Seoul, Korea Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 16, 2014 – New York City, NY Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 17, 2014 – Atlanta, GA Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 17, 2014 – Quito, Ecuador Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 17, 2014 – Lexington, KY Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 17, 2014 – Netherlands Details
• New OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 17, 2014 – Philadelphia, PA Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 17, 2014 – Zürich, Switzerland Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 17, 2014 – Hobart, Tasmania Details
• 4th Birthday OpenStack Beijing Jul 19, 2014 – Beijing, Beijing, CN Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 19, 2014 – Moscow, Russia Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 19, 2014 – Caracas, Venezuela Details
• OSCON Jul 20 – 24, 2014 – Portland, Oregon Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 20, 2014 – Mumbai, India Details
• Minnesota OpenStack Meetup Jul 21, 2014 – MinneapolisSt. Paul, Minnesota, US Details
• OpenStack Tutorial and 4th Birthday Party Jul 21 – 23, 2014 – Thailand Details
• The Fifth Elephant 2014 Jul 23 – 26, 2014 – Bangalore, Karnataka, IN Details
• OpenStack 4th Anniversary – Munich Jul 23, 2014 – Munich, DE Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 24, 2014 – Seattle, WA Details
• OpenStack 4th Birthday Party Jul 24, 2014 – Triangle, North Carolina Details
• Openstack Brazil Day / 4th Birthday Jul 26, 2014 – Porto Alegre, RS, BR Details
• OpenStack 4th Anniversary-Frankfurt Jul 28, 2014 – Frankfurt, DE Details
• OpenStack 4th Anniversary – Berlin Jul 29, 2014 – Berlin, DE Details
• OpenStack 4th BIrthday Party Jul 29, 2014 – Nairobi, Kenya Details
• SFBay Meetup – Beginner track Aug 07, 2014 – Sunnyvale, CA Details
• OpenStack workshop at Fedora Flock Aug 09, 2014 – Prague, Czech Republic, CZ Details
• Serviceability, Swift and OpenStack Aug 14, 2014 – Boston, MA, US Details
• OpenStack Silicon Valley Sep 16, 2014 – Mountain View, CA, US Details
• OpenStack Conference Benelux 2014 Sep 19, 2014 – Bussum, The Netherlands Details
• OpenStack Summit November 2014 Nov 03 – 07, 2014 – Paris, France Details

Other News

• Open Mic Spotlight: Claudiu Belu
• gerrymander 1.2 “As effective as a cat-flap in an elephant house” – a client API and command line tool for gerrit
• OpenStack Global Community: Interviews from OpenStack Days in Italy & Israel
• With OpenStack Icehouse, CERN Is Closer To Cloud Federation
• OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary and full logs.

Got Answers?

Ask OpenStack is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:

• Neutron doesn’t update floatingip with multiple L3 agent Icehouse
• How to use different interface for floating ip address and public interface?
• HPHelion baremetal installation without iLO interface
• Validating and Installing OS-KSEC2 admin extension

Welcome New Reviewers and Developers

Latest Activity In Projects

Do you want to see at a glance the bugs filed and solved this week? Latest patches submitted for review? Check out the individual project pages on OpenStack Activity Board – Insights.

• Telemetry (Ceilometer)
• Block Storage (Cinder)
• Image Service (Glance)
• Orchestration API (Heat)
• Dashboard (Horizon)
• Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic)
• Identity (Keystone)
• Manuals
• Networking (Neutron)
• Compute (Nova)
• Data Processing (Sahara)
• Object Storage (Swift)
• Database As A Service (Trove)

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