Travel grants bring global community members to OpenStack Summit <http://awe.sm/rAutT> Key contributors from 15 countries attended the recent OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. The program for Austin is growing – find out more about the Travel Support Program. OpenStack Mitaka release: what’s next for Neutron, Cinder and Ceilometer <http://awe.sm/rAuta> Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out how to get involved. Check out this tool library for OpenStack operators <http://awe.sm/eN70V> These tools – contributed by and for operators – offer quick solutions to streamline your work OpenStack design contest T-shirts are now available! <http://awe.sm/hOlQs> Joline Buscemi won the third edition of the community T-shirt design contest, held annually by the OpenStack Foundation. Community feedback OpenStack is always interested in feedback and community contributions, if you would like to see a new section in the OpenStack Weekly Community Newsletter or have ideas on how to present content please get in touch: community@openstack.org <mailto:community@openstack.org>. CFP Deadlines Call for papers: PyCon 2016 <http://awe.sm/hOlRh> deadline: Jan 3, 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2016 <http://awe.sm/hOlRj> deadline: February 1, 2016 OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest December 5-11 <http://awe.sm/gOm4N> Tips ‘n Tricks By Alain Swanson: Provisioning Neutron networks with the NSX-v Plugin <http://awe.sm/eN70m> Upcoming Events Dec 12, 2015 meet: Big data and OpenStack sousse, Sousse, TN <http://awe.sm/rAurA> Dec 12, 2015 开源文化与OpenStack Beijing, CN <http://awe.sm/tAvGE> Dec 14 – 18, 2015 Okinawa Open Days 2015 Naha, Okinawa, JP <http://awe.sm/pAvJ2> Dec 15, 2015 Software Defined Storage – What makes Ceph special Guadalajara, MX <http://awe.sm/cN6zq> Dec 16, 2015 Openstack Seattle Meetup: A Deep Dive of the OpenStack Security Project <http://awe.sm/jOlT1> Dec 16, 2015 OpenStack End of the Year Beer Ljubljana, SI <http://awe.sm/jOlT2> Dec 17 – 18, 2015 Ops meetup in Asia Okinawa, JP <http://awe.sm/sAvMg> Dec 18, 2015 SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO <http://awe.sm/cN6zv> Other News How PayPal Runs the World’s Largest Private OpenStack Cloud <http://awe.sm/eN70t> Thinking outside the box and outside the gate to improve OpenStack and RDO <http://awe.sm/qAuxk> Australian company, Aptira, expands global footprint <http://awe.sm/cN729> Bright Computing Receives Honors in 2015 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards <http://awe.sm/fOlJB>