Re: [Openstack-operators] [publicClouds-wg] Public Cloud Working Group

2016-11-22 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks, On 11/15/2016 02:43 AM, matt Jarvis wrote: > I'd like to propose that, in line with the new process for creation of > working groups, we set up some initial IRC meetings for all interested > parties. I'll be glad to read summaries and participate to conversations on the mailing list

Re: [Openstack-operators] [openstack-community] Recognising Ops contributions

2016-03-03 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 03/02/2016 02:37 PM, Edgar Magana wrote: > The Foundation User Committee [1] has received multiple requests to > enable a formal recognition of your contributions to the OpenStack > community. This email is our approach to formalize this recognition and > make sure that we all feel and are part

Re: [Openstack-operators] No more weekly newsletter?

2016-01-19 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 01/19/2016 02:28 PM, Mike Perez wrote: > Do you mean the Dev Digest? It was originally in the newsletter, and then > people at the summit approached me about making it more visible, so it's now > a separate thing and emailed to the dev and operators list weekly. > > http://lists.openstack.org/p

Re: [Openstack-operators] Draft Agenda for PAO Ops Meetup (August 18, 19)

2015-08-03 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/03/2015 09:22 AM, Ju Lim wrote: > Any chance that the Ops meetup will have some ability for folks to > teleconference in? Given that the conference will be at a hotel, experience tells me that we'll be lucky if there is enough bandwidth for all participants. OTOH, Tom has surprised us before

Re: [Openstack-operators] [all] OpenStack voting by the numbers

2015-07-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 07/29/2015 09:27 AM, Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: > Some of my thoughts on the Voting process. Excellent conversation starter, Maish. One piece that attracted my attention on your post is: Community and How to Contribute. Way down there in at the bottom. Is that because people already k

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 5 - 12)

2015-06-12 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Five things every contributor should know about the OpenStack docs project New docs contributors may be afraid of moving too fast and breaking things - but don’t

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 29 - June 5)

2015-06-05 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Containers and OpenStack: here's what you need to know Interview with Adrian Otto, a principal architect at Rackspace, is the project technical lead (PTL) for Magnum, an API service develo

Re: [Openstack-operators] [Tags] Tags Team Repo & our first tags!

2015-06-02 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 06/02/2015 07:54 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > Please, no. We should not have ops tags that are different than other > tags for no good reason. Let me put it another way: I think there is a good reason for Operators to look for information about a project that is more descriptive than the current def

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 8 - 22)

2015-05-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack users share how their deployments stack up Some of OpenStack’s founding projects -- including Nova, Keystone, Glance, Horizon and Cinder -- continue to be the most popular. That m

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 1 - 8)

2015-05-08 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Snapshot of the OpenStack community behind Kilo The OpenStack community that helped create the Kilo release has done some seriously heavy lifting. For the 11th release,

[Openstack-operators] Tagging OpenStack projects with operational details

2015-05-05 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks, in PHL meeting the discussion on project tags[1] highlighted that operators are looking for answers to questions like: * Are fixes backported? Or Consumes Master to get fixes? * Is it packaged? * Is it stable? Mature? * is it tested in Tempest/Rally/whatever so I can test

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 24 - May 1)

2015-05-01 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Kilo Logo Superuser Awards final faceoff: your vote counts Four great finalists, but only one can win: it’s a close call as the voting deadline approaches for this edition of the Superuser Awards. Snapshot of the OpenStack community behind Kilo The OpenStack community that helped create the Ki

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 17 - 24)

2015-04-24 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Why you should attend an OpenStack Summit OpenStack Summits don’t miss a beat - with a schedule full of diverse breakout sessions, captivating speakers, off-the-wall evening events and the occasional surprise, it’s the twice-yearly event you simply cannot miss. What would you add to the list of 10

Re: [Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 10 - 17)

2015-04-17 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 11:21 -0700, Stefano Maffulli wrote: > PTL Election Conclusion and Results > Congratulations to the newly elected PTL John Garbutt for Nova and > thank you Michael Still for the hard work. The other PTLs have been > confirmed. The list and full announcement on

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 10 - 17)

2015-04-17 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack DefCore Community Review – TWO Sessions April 21 (agenda) During the DefCore process, we’ve had regular community check points to review and discuss the latest materials from the committee. With the latest work on the official process and flurry of Guidelines, we’ve got a lot of concrete

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Apr 3 - 10)

2015-04-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
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 int

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 27 - Apr 3)

2015-04-03 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Game changer: inside Adobe’s new Marketing Cloud architecture The Adobe Marketing Cloud powers software-as-a-service marketing for outfits such as the Los Angeles Kings, eBags and Verizon Wireless. When the IT infrastructure team in Adobe’s Digital Marketing group realized it was time for an evolut

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 20 - 27)

2015-03-27 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack DefCore Process Draft Posted for Review [major milestone] OpenStack DefCore Committee is looking for community feedback about the proposed DefCore Process. March has been a month for OpenStack DefCore milestones. At the March Board meeting, the first official DefCore Guideline (called Def

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 13 - 20)

2015-03-20 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Feature freeze + Kilo-3 development milestone available We just hit Feature Freeze, so please do not approve changes that add features or new configuration options unless those have been granted a feature freeze exception. This is also String Freeze, so you should avoid changing translatable string

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 6 - 13)

2015-03-13 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Five years in: Charting the OpenStack galaxy The Starship Enterprise had a five year mission, to "explore strange new worlds," among other things, and as we approach the five year mark in our own mission, it's fun to think about the worlds we've seen and contemplate where to go next. Did anyone thi

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Feb 27 - Mar 6)

2015-03-08 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack User Groups get a new home It’s easy to stay in touch with OpenStack birds-of-a-feather wherever you are, from India to Italy, with the new OpenStack User Groups portal. Even with events all over the globe, it's super simple to stay current — join a group, and you’ll be notified of new ev

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Feb 20 - 27)

2015-02-27 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack DefCore Accelerates & Simplifies with Clear and Timely Guidelines [Feedback?] Last week, the OpenStack DefCore committee rolled up our collective sleeves and got to work in a serious way. We had a in-person meeting with great turn out with 5 board members, Foundation executives/staff an

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Feb 13 - 20)

2015-02-20 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Technical Committee Update: Project Reform Progress Over the last few months, the Technical Committee has been discussing plans to dissolve the binary concept of the integrated release and adapt our projects structure to the future needs of collaborative development in the OpenStack commu

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Feb 6 - 13)

2015-02-13 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack crowns “Liberty” its next release name OpenStack’s next release will be called Liberty. While you might be thinking of the word liberty in terms of “freedom” (as in free beer or other things), the name comes from a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Introducing PoshStack,

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 30 - Feb 6)

2015-02-06 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack "L" naming poll We'd like your help again in selecting the right name for the development cycle and release coming after "Kilo". Our next summit will happen in Vancouver, BC (Canada) in May. L candidate names were proposed, selected and checked for various issues... leaving 4 candidates

[Openstack-operators] Call for Speakers - February 9 Deadline!

2015-02-02 Thread Stefano Maffulli
February 9th is the deadline to submit a talk for the May 2015 Vancouver Summit Would you like to speak at the May 2015 OpenStack Summit in Vancouver? Then hurry up and submit a talk! February 9 is the final day that speaking submissions will be accepted. https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancou

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 23 - 30)

2015-01-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Working to bridge the developer/end-user divide in OpenStack The Product Working Group will embark on a listening campaign to improve dialogue between developers and their managers. How to craft a successful OpenStack Summit proposal Inspiration, tips and a kick in the pants for the Feb. 9 dead

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 16 - 23)

2015-01-23 Thread Stefano Maffulli
The Whys and Hows of the Oslo Namespace Change During the Kilo cycle the Oslo team has been busy deprecating the oslo. namespace in all of our projects. The first question this probably raises for most people is: why? Ben Nemec has the answer in his blog post and also explains how the Common Librar

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 9 - 16)

2015-01-16 Thread Stefano Maffulli
2015 Election Results Thank you to everyone who voted in this year's election. We reached quorum and passed the three bylaws amendments. We also reached quorum in electing eight Individual Directors to the 2015 OpenStack Board of Directors. And the winner is Individual Directors * Tim

[Openstack-operators] [addendum to] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Week 1, 2015)

2015-01-09 Thread Stefano Maffulli
[one important paragraph was left out. I apologize for the double post.] "First App" Tutorial for OpenStack OpenStack needs something like the tutorial "Writing your first Django app". We're looking for volunteers to flesh out ideas on what this tutorial would look like for OpenStack and how it wo

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Week 1, 2015)

2015-01-09 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Happy 2015! OpenStack Gold Director Selector Election Results for 2015 * Aptira – Tristan Goode * Cisco – Lew Tucker * Dreamhost – Simon Anderson * EMC – Sean Roberts * Mirantis – Boris Renski * Nebula – Chris Kemp * (new) Ne

Re: [Openstack-operators] Fostering OpenStack Users

2014-12-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 09:57 +1300, James Dempsey wrote: > How do you help new OpenStack users learn to build awesome stuff in your > OpenStack clouds? Great topic. I don't think there is much literature specific for OpenStack around this. I have seen a lot of 'getting started' guides for other ser

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 20 - 26)

2014-12-26 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Last newsletter of 2014, see you again in 2015! University of Hawaii College of Education harnesses OpenStack to support faculty research via a secure private cloud OpenStack powers a Holodeck at University of Hawaii at Manoa... Read the full story on Mirantis blog. The TOSCA Cloud

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 13 - 20)

2014-12-19 Thread Stefano Maffulli
ild an OpenStack cloud from SUSEcon’s free USB stick handouts <http://blog.adamspiers.org/2014/12/11/susecon-usb-stick-howto/> * By Stefano Maffulli <http://maffulli.net/>: How to get better at IRC-based meetings <http://maffulli.net/2014/12/16/how-to-get-b

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 6 - 13)

2014-12-12 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Program%20%28EN%29.pdf?dl=0>. Ask OpenStack passes 10,000 questions <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/12/ask-openstack-passes-1-questions/> Recently, our Q&A site, Ask OpenStack passed an important milestone – more than 10,000 questions. Since it was launched by comm

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Nov 28 - Dec 6)

2014-12-05 Thread Stefano Maffulli
December 2014 OpenStack Infrastructure User Manual Sprint During this week the Infrastructure team released a significant milestone for the Infrastructure User Manual. The manual consolidates documentation for Developers, Core Reviewers and Pr

[Openstack-operators] Notice of meeting to elect Individual Directors,,The Annual Meeting of the Individual Members to elect directors for the Board of the OpenStack Foundation shall be held from Janu

2014-11-28 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Notice of meeting to elect Individual Directors The Annual Meeting of the Individual Members to elect directors for the Board of the OpenStack Foundation shall be held from January 12, 2015 to January 16, 2015, commencing at 00:01 UTC on January 12 and ending at 17:00 UTC on January 16. The

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Nov 14 - 21)

2014-11-21 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack User Survey Insights: November 2014 This is the fourth consecutive survey conducted by the User Committee prior to each Summit starting in April 2013 and the previous survey in Atlanta, M

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Post Paris)

2014-11-14 Thread Stefano Maffulli
How Operators Can Get Involved in Kilo #OpenStackSummit Maish Saidel-Keesing participated in the Ops Summit: How to get involved in Kilo

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 17 – 24)

2014-10-24 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Startup/Venture Capital Ecosystem – it’s real and coming to Paris! Recently OpenStack has been generating financial headlines with the acquisitions of Ope

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 10 – 17)

2014-10-17 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Juno is here! OpenStack Juno, the tenth release of the open source software for building public, private, and hybrid clouds has 342 new features to support software development, big data analysis and application infrastructure at scale. Th

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Oct 3 - 10)

2014-10-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Mentoring others and yourself While this topic would have been good for the Tips-and-tricks section below, I think it deserves to open this week's wrap-up. With a new session of Outreach Program for Women about to start for Ope

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Sep 26 - Oct 3)

2014-10-03 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Network Function Virtualization -- The Opportunity for OpenStack and Open Source This week's launch of OPNFV

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Sep 12 – 19)

2014-09-19 Thread Stefano Maffulli
The Kilo Design Summit in Paris In less than two months the OpenStack development community will gather in Paris to discuss the details of the Kilo development cycle. It starts after the keynotes on the Tuesday of the summit week, and ends at th

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Sep 5 – 12)

2014-09-12 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Dox a tool that run python (or others) tests in a docker container What if there was a tool that allows to integrate docker containers to do the automatic testing for OpenStack?The

[Openstack-operators] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Aug 29 – Sep 5)

2014-09-05 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Latest Technical Committee Updates The OpenStack Technical Committee meets weekly to work through requests for incubation, to review technical issues happening in currently integrated projects, and to represe

[Openstack-operators] DefCore Community Meetings 9/10 & 9/11 AGENDA (Lighthouse.7)

2014-09-05 Thread Stefano Maffulli
The DefCore project is moving forward and needs more and more eyes on it. The next meetings are on Sept 9 and 10, with the same agenda to facilitate global access. I'm sharing the details below. All members of OpenStack ecosystem should follow this process closely as it is going to define what an