Why you should take TryStack for a spin now

The free OpenStack testing sandbox is back -- and it's bigger, badder and better than ever.

Liberty cycle retrospective in Puppet OpenStack
Things are moving very fast in OpenStack; it might be useful to take a short break and write down a little bit of retrospective; it will help to see what happened in Puppet OpenStack project during the last months.

The Road to Tokyo 

• Register now: full access registration prices increase on 9/30
• Discounted registration for nonprofit/government/students deadline is 9/25 
• Get your OpenStack Summit Tokyo visa in five steps: Deadline for Visa invitation requests is 10/1
• The schedule for the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo is now available

Reports from Previous Events 

• None this week

Deadlines and Contributors Notifications 

• [openstack-dev] [all][Elections] Nominations for OpenStack PTLs (Program Technical Leads) are now open
• [openstack-announce] [Ironic] Introducing Ironic 4.1.0

Security Advisories and Notices 

• OSSA-2015-018: Neutron firewall rules bypass through port update

Tips ‘n Tricks 

• By Ben Armstrong: Getting Hyper-V and OpenStack set up quickly
• By Boris Kuschel: How to monitor OpenStack deployments with Docker, Graphite, Grafana, collectd and Chef
• By John Garbutt: [openstack-dev] [nova] [all] Updated String Freeze Guidelines
• By Gord Chung: [openstack-dev] [aodh][ceilometer] (re)introducing Aodh - OpenStack Alarming

Upcoming Events 

• Sep 12, 2015 OpenStack Bangalore Meetup Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
• Sep 14 - 15, 2015 Extensibility in OpenStack Swift and what you can do with it! (#25) Washington D.C., DC, US
• Sep 15, 2015 OpenStack Project Leader - visiting Belgium Diegem, BE
• Sep 16 - 17, 2015 OpenStack Austin - Sept. Meetup Austin, TX, US
• Sep 17, 2015 OpenStack Benelux Conference 2015 Bussum, NL
• Sep 18, 2015 OpenStack PDX Meetup
• Sep 18, 2015 SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO San Francisco, CA, US
• Sep 21 - 24, 2015 Storage Developer Conference Santa Clara, CA, US
• Sep 29 – 30, 2015 Cloud Storage in OpenStack
• Oct 01, 2015 OpenStack Meetup Cluj Cluj-Napoc, Cluj, RO
• Oct 01, 2015 South Bay OpenStack Meetup, Beginner track San Francisco, CA, US
• Oct 01 - 02, 2015 October OpenStack Meetup - SDN and Containers Chicago, IL, US
• Oct 04 - 08, 2015 Gartner SymposiumITxpo Orlando, FL, US
• Oct 06, 2015 October Sydney Meetup 
• Oct 07, 2015 Houston OpenStack Meetup Houston, TX, US
• Oct 07 – 08, 2015 OpenStack Liberty Release Richardson, TX, US
• Oct 07 – 08, 2015 OpenStack 101 Houston, TX, US
• Oct 10, 2015 OpenStack India Meetup, Pune Pune, IN

Other News 

• Managing OpenStack: Integration Matters! 

• Why OpenStack needs to keep it simple