Making your list and checking it twice for the OpenStack Vancouver Summit Emily Hugenbruch shared her pre-summit checklists: great tips there. OVN and OpenStack Integration Development Update The Open vSwitch project announced the OVN effort back in January and Russell Bryant started to look into it. He reports about OVN, calling it “a promising open source backend for OpenStack Neutron”. OpenStack in the classroom Amrith Kumar announced an effort to work with educational institutions in Massachusetts and near Toronto (where Tesora has offices) to try and make available a course on cloud computing with OpenStack as the exemplar system. OpenStack In The Enterprise A new mini-portal on openstack.org website to discover use cases and white papers from the enterprise world. The Road to Vancouver * Sign up for OpenStack Upstream Training in Vancouver * Canada Visa Information * Official Hotel Room Blocks * 2015 OpenStack T-Shirt Design Contest * Preparation to Design summit * Liberty Design Summit - Proposed slot allocation * What's a Design Summit? There is still room for Upstream Training Relevant Conversations * PTL Voting is now open * Kilo stable branches for "other" libraries * The Evolution of core developer to maintainer? * The Core Deficiency * Implementation of Pacemaker Managed OpenStack VM Recovery * Neutron Kilo Retrospective and a Look Toward Liberty * [Neutron] The specs process, effective operators feedback and product management Deadlines and Development Priorities * [Nova] Identifying release critical bugs in Kilo * [Cinder] Bug Triage - Call for Participation * [Nova] Liberty specs are now open and [Nova] Trunk is now Liberty * [neutron] Liberty Specs are now open! Security Advisories and Notices * None Tips ‘n Tricks * By Adam Young: Horizon WebSSO via SSSD * By Assaf Muller: Multinode DVR Devstack * By Alessandro Pilotti: VirtualBox driver for OpenStack Upcoming Events * Apr 13 - 14, 2015 OpenStack Live Santa Clara, CA, US * Apr 13 - 16, 2015 StackAttack! A HOLatCollaborate15 Las Vegas, NV, US * Apr 15, 2015 iX OpenStack Tag Köln, NRW, DE * Apr 15 - 16, 2015 1º Hangout OpenStack Brasil 2015 Brasil, BR * Apr 16 - 18, 2015 Open Cloud 2015 Beijing, Beijing, CN * Apr 16, 2015 8th OpenStack Meetup Stockholm Stockholm, SE * Apr 16, 2015 8th OpenStack User Group Nordics meetup Stockholm, SE * Apr 21 - 22, 2015 CONNECT 2015 Melbourne, Victoria, AU * Apr 22 - 23, 2015 China SDNNFV Conference Beijing, CN * Apr 22, 2015 OpenStack NYC Meetup New York, NY, US * Apr 23, 2015 OpenStack Philadelphia Meetup Philadelphia, PA, US * May 05 - 07, 2015 CeBIT AU 2015 Sydney, NSW, AU * May 18 - 22, 2015 OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver, BC Other News * A community distribution of OpenStack * Why adopting OpenStack for dev/test matters * Gophercloud Update * Why OpenStack will change the way we live, work and play 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.