Re: [Openstack-community] Moving this discussion list to lists.openstack.org

2012-08-01 Thread Stefano Maffulli
n Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Stefano Maffulli <mailto:stef...@openstack.org>> wrote: > > Hello folks, > > now that we have a full list server, I would suggest to move this > discussion to it. This will give us more flexibility on the > configuration,

[Openstack-community] Moving this discussion list to lists.openstack.org

2012-07-31 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks, now that we have a full list server, I would suggest to move this discussion to it. This will give us more flexibility on the configuration, better archives, easier way to join the group (no launchpad account anymore) and probably more. Unless there is strong opposition to the change

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (July 20-27)

2012-07-27 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Highlights of the week Join The OpenStack Foundation The OpenStack community has worked hard since the announcement of intention to establish an OpenStack Foundation in October 2011. We've come to the point w

[Openstack-community] [OT] Fwd: [Openstack-docs] Open Help Conference August 10-15

2012-07-23 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Forwarded from the Documentation team list as I think it may be of interest here too. /stef Original Message Subject: [Openstack-docs] Open Help Conference August 10-15 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:32:59 -0500 From: Anne Gentle To: openstack-d...@lists.openstack.org Hi all - I

[Openstack-community] Request Tracker for OpenStack

2012-07-19 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks, I'd like to have a system to keep track of all the requests coming in from the community, from the notifications of spelling mistakes on openstack.org all the way to the management of the sponsorship queues for the summit. This is *not* for OpenStack development. I've played a b

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (July 6-13)

2012-07-13 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Highlights of the week G stands for Grizzly Results of the naming poll for next OpenStack release are in, and the G release will be named “Grizzly“.  The regular poll sel

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 29 – July 6)

2012-07-06 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Highlights of the week Folsom-2 milestone available for Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon and Quantum The second milestone of the Folsom cycle is now available for Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon and Quantum ! Note that the correspond

[Openstack-community] New mailing list server

2012-07-05 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Thanks to Duncan McGreggor, James E. Blair and Antony Messerly, we now have a new mailing list server. This was necessary in order to proceed with the decision to create a new mailing list for the OpenStack developers. The new server is now managed within the OpenStack Infrastructure team, with Du

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 22-29)

2012-06-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Highlights of the week OpenStack Events at OSCON & Discounted Passes We have quite a few activities planned for OSCON to celebrate OpenStack's second birthday. Kicking off with the first OpenS

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter -- June 22

2012-06-22 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Highlights of the week OpenStack Summit coming October 15th-19th to San Diego, CA Mark your calendar October 15th-19th in San Diego, California with more of everything: 4 days of

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (June 8-15)

2012-06-15 Thread Stefano Maffulli
*OpenStack Community Newsletter --- June 15* Highlights of the week Announcing OpenStack Asia/Pacific Conference 2012 The OpenStack Asia/Pacific community is hosting a large Open

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter — June 8

2012-06-08 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Community Newsletter — June 8 Highlights of the week The results of Bug Triage Day are in Nova has more bugs than all the other core projects combined, and the most slack to clean up. We went from 2

Re: [Openstack-community] DRAFT OpenStack.org Blog Authors Code of Conduct

2012-06-07 Thread Stefano Maffulli
@lists.launchpad.net >> [mailto:openstack-community-bounces+tim.bell=cern...@lists.launchpad.net] >> On Behalf Of Stefano Maffulli >> Sent: 01 June 2012 21:50 >> To: User Groups Community, OpenStack >> Subject: [Openstack-community] DRAFT OpenStack.org Blog Authors Code

Re: [Openstack-community] Swiss OpenStack User Group

2012-06-05 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hi Andy this is a good idea. You may want to contact also the folks behind Ch/Open as they're organizing a cloud-based event in Bern: http://www.ch-open.ch/index.php?id=1034 Cheers, stef On Tue 05 Jun 2012 04:32:35 AM PDT, Andy Edmonds wrote: > Hi all, > > As there was no OpenStack user group

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter — May 25

2012-06-01 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Highlights of the week Mark your calendars: Bug triage day on June 7th Short on the heels of folsom-1 publication and the upcoming Swift 1.5.0 release, it sounds like a good moment to spend some time sanitizing the *bug* databas

[Openstack-community] DRAFT OpenStack.org Blog Authors Code of Conduct

2012-06-01 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello all, with the current number of authors on the community blog I think it's a good idea to make sure we all have a clear understanding of what it means to have an account on such visible community asset. I think it would be good for the whole community to have a brief, clear, understandable

Re: [Openstack-community] OpenStack User Group in Stockholm?

2012-05-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 05/29/2012 12:29 PM, Nicolae Paladi wrote: > In case you have not, are there any reasons to not start one? Go for it. We have started a document to help you boot the activities. Tagging along an existing set of people is a good idea too (be it erlang or anything else). http://wiki.openstack.

Re: [Openstack-community] OpenStack User Group in Stockholm?

2012-05-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
hi Kristoffer, remember to add your group to the wiki: http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups#Australia and if you have any event scheduled, you can send me the date and other details so I can add them to http://openstack.org/community/events Cheers, stef On Wed 30 May 2012 02:41:02 AM

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter — May 25

2012-05-25 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Highlights of the week S3 emulation to OpenStack Swift has moved Following PPB’s decision of May 15 meeting

Re: [Openstack-community] [Openstack] New layout of the OpenStack mailing lists

2012-05-25 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Fri 25 May 2012 11:03:40 AM PDT, Russell Bryant wrote: > We have been posting security advisories to the main mailing list. I'm interested to understand why you've done that. The announce list has always existed, but nobody uses it. > I > worry that they get missed by a lot of pepole since it

Re: [Openstack-community] [Openstack] New layout of the OpenStack mailing lists

2012-05-25 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Fri 25 May 2012 01:04:20 AM PDT, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > I'm surprised to see the announce list being removed. What is the > rational for that. Most large projects have a very low traffic > list (~1 msg per day) dedicated for project announcements of new > releases, security notices, importa

[Openstack-community] New layout of the OpenStack mailing lists

2012-05-24 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks, we're working on a new mailing list server to host our discussions. The main factor behind the move was described in this message by ttx: http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/ybwazse63sgxozh2 The current layout is drafted on http://etherpad.openstack.org/newmlist-layout The open q

Re: [Openstack-community] [Openstack] Beyond the Usergroups wiki page

2012-05-23 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 05/09/2012 04:51 PM, Stefano Maffulli wrote: > Hello folks, > > if you manage a user group or want to create one or you're simply > interested in OpenStack User Groups I would suggest to join this > conversation: > > https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack-commun

Re: [Openstack-community] Beyond the wiki page: planning an International Community Portal

2012-05-16 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue 15 May 2012 03:47:34 PM PDT, andi abes wrote: > Not sure there's a real need to delete a group. You could just post a > - go here for future events post on the group's page It's not the same thing ... i don't want to deviate the discussion though. Let me just say that for me data porta

Re: [Openstack-community] Beyond the wiki page: planning an International Community Portal

2012-05-14 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 05/11/2012 10:02 PM, Tristan Goode wrote: > I think you've nailed the requirements Stef. thanks. It's still not clear to me how to manage the identities of the members though... Maybe the best thing is to start small, use an external identity provider like Launchpad for OpenID or anything else

Re: [Openstack-community] Beyond the wiki page: planning an International Community Portal

2012-05-11 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Fri 11 May 2012 11:54:21 AM PDT, Doug Hellmann wrote: > I certainly don't see anything about that in the terms of > service. http://www.meetup.com/terms/ Right, there is nothing there. I have heard stories from people that ran groups on meetup.com and had problems closing/migrating away from

Re: [Openstack-community] Beyond the wiki page: planning an International Community Portal

2012-05-11 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Fri 11 May 2012 08:14:43 AM PDT, Everett Toews wrote: > We use meetup.com for the Canadian OpenStack Users > Group. It does everything we need it to do and it's very reasonably > priced. I don't see us switching away from it. I believe that Meetup may not be a good thing for

Re: [Openstack-community] Beyond the wiki page: planning an International Community Portal

2012-05-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu 10 May 2012 04:23:34 AM PDT, Haisam Ido wrote: > http://drupal.org/ might be a good choice for the "portal". Here's a > list of Drupal users http://whousesdrupal.com/home Depending on what the needs are, Drupal may be overkill. For example, if we decide not to host and provide web apps fo

[Openstack-community] Beyond the wiki page: planning an International Community Portal

2012-05-09 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks, with the large growth of OpenStack internationally comes the need to have a better system to list the international resources for new users of OpenStack. At the moment we have a couple of wiki pages like http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups, this list and the map on the /comm

[Openstack-community] Follow up on Community panel at the conference

2012-04-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello all at the conference I moderated a panel http://openstackconferencespring2012.sched.org/event/eda8d9162bfd04eb1074ef07daeed890# with Boris Renski, Masanori Itoh, Joseph B. George, Tristan Goode, Yoyo Chiang and important contribution from Heng Chui and Sammy Luo from China. There will

Re: [Openstack-community] Community discussion panel at OpenStack.Folsom Conference

2012-04-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
lvement, contributions and investments to evangelize the > community. > > > > Anyone else? > > > > -Boris > > > > > > > > -----Original Message- > From: Deepak Garg [mailto:deepakgarg.i...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April

[Openstack-community] Community discussion panel at OpenStack Folsom Conference

2012-04-02 Thread Stefano Maffulli
hello folks the programming committee suggested to merge two proposals regarding community for the next OpenStack conference. Here is the proposal I originally submitted: OpenStack community is growing at a very fast pace. The talk will give an overview of this growth, with metr

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 30, 2012

2012-03-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 30, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS * Submit session proposals for OpenStack Folsom Design Summit https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08674.html * OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference Schedule http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/03/openstack-spr

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 23, 2012

2012-03-23 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 23, 2012 A great community story: Over the course of just a week I’ve gone from despair and frustration to almost wanting to shout from the rooftops the achievements that have been made in OpenStack and my own deployments and

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 16, 2012

2012-03-16 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 16, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS * Submit session proposals for OpenStack Folsom Design Summit https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg08674.html * Shout out to all folks who participated to sprints for OpenStack this year at PyCon h

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 9, 2012

2012-03-09 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 9, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS * OpenStack community elected new PTLs and two members of PPB http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/03/openstack-governance-elections-spring-2012-results/ * OpenStack effort to join Google Summer of Code https://l

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 2, 2012

2012-03-02 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 2, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS * OpenStack Governance Elections Spring 2012: remember to vote if you have received the ballot. Results will be announced tomorrow with a blog post. At 2:00pm PST this is the voter’s turnout: * PPB: 104

Re: [Openstack-community] Hiring Openstack Engineers for my client

2012-02-22 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hi Manish, there is a dedicated contact point for this kind of requests. Please have a look at what we have published on http://openstack.org/community/jobs/ and follow instructions provided on that page. Be ready to send full job descriptions. Cheers, stef On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 23:21 +, Ma

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 17, 2012

2012-02-17 Thread Stefano Maffulli
HIGHLIGHTS * TryStack.org – A Sandbox for OpenStack is live http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/trystack-org-a-sandbox-for-openstack/ * The brand new API reference website http://api.openstack.org/ * SoftLayer announced its Object Storage product built on Op

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter –February 10, 2012

2012-02-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/02/community-weekly-review-feb-3-10 HIGHLIGHTS * OpenStack Bug Squashing day was a success and we should repeat it (see graphs below) * OpenStack Foundation Update http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-February/000123.

Re: [Openstack-community] founded first german user group

2012-01-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 10:40 +0100, Christian Berendt wrote: > Why maintaining an extra document in etherpad? Isn't it better to use > the existing event listing on > http://www.openstack.org/community/events/? the list of events on openstack.org contains events that have already scheduled and kno

Re: [Openstack-community] founded first german user group

2012-01-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 20:47 +1100, Tristan Goode wrote: > Stefano started an etherpad project here to make a User group How To > guide > http://etherpad.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroupHowto Yep. I was hoping to move that document to a more stable place, like wiki.openstack.org once there was eno

Re: [Openstack-community] founded first german user group

2012-01-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 00:17 +0100, Christian Berendt wrote: > Our first informal meeting will take place during the CeBIT > (takes place in Hannover/Germany). that's awesome. When is CeBIT? What other events do you plan to attend to? We have a list of events around the world where it would make s

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 27, 2012

2012-01-27 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 27, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS * OpenStack Bug Squashing Day Is Coming On Feb 2nd http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/the-first-openstack-bug-squashing-day-is-coming-on-feb-2nd/ and you can follow its evolution on http://wiki.openstack.org/bugstats/

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 13, 2012

2012-01-13 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Community Newsletter –January 13, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS * Announced the date and venue for next OpenStack Conference and Design Summit http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/01/the-openstack-spring-2012-conference-in-san-francisco-california-april-16-20-2012/ * Com

[Openstack-community] Presenting OpenStack Foundation mission and roadmap [webinar]

2012-01-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello all Jonathan Bryce and Mark Collier will host two webinars to illustrate the draft mission for the future OpenStack Foundation. The draft was published on http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/ and it’s the fist building block of the organisation that was announced in Boston. They

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter –December 16, 2011

2011-12-16 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Community Newsletter –December 16, 2011 HIGHLIGHTS * Proposal to move non-standard ec2 “admin” api in essex https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg06218.html * Proposed branches for Essex-2 milestones have been cut https://launchpad.net/openstack/+milesto

[Openstack-community] [Fwd: [Openstack] Are there any people in Beijing, China has interesting to meet up]

2011-12-15 Thread Stefano Maffulli
can anybody here help him? /stef --- Begin Message --- Hi all, I think there might be some developers/users of openstack in Beijing, how about a meet up in next month? I'm about to arrange a meet-up, then people happen in town can come together, talk with each other in person. If you have any inte

[Openstack-community] OpenStack Community Newsletter –December 9, 2011

2011-12-09 Thread Stefano Maffulli
OpenStack Community Newsletter –December 9, 2011 HIGHLIGHTS * Stackops Openstack Distro 0.3 Diablo Stable released http://blog.stackops.com/2011/12/06/stackops-openstack-distro-0-3-diablo-stable-released/ * Changes to the OpenStack Nova subteams https://lists.launchp

[Openstack-community] Writing the OpenStack User Group HOWTO

2011-11-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks, following a conversation we had weeks ago, I've started writing the Howto for new user groups. You can contribute to it with your suggestions and experiences: http://etherpad.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroupHowto Please add content to it. Cheers, stef -- Mailing list: https://la

Re: [Openstack-community] User Group in London UK

2011-11-18 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hi Gene On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 06:55 +, Gene Myers wrote: > I'm interested in participating or organising an OpenStack Users Group > in London. Anyone that could point me to an existing group, or might > also be interested in attending or organising a London group, please > contact me ASAP. I

[Openstack-community] [Fwd: [Openstack] New South San Francisco Bay Area meetup]

2011-11-18 Thread Stefano Maffulli
FYI --- Begin Message --- Hi all, I've started a regular hackathon / installfest / meetup in the South San Francisco Bay Area. We'll be coding, designing, advising, and all the usual hackathoning, including food, beer, and geeky company. This will be every two weeks on Thursday evening. That

[Openstack-community] [Fwd: [Openstack] OpenStack Community Newsletter – November 11, 2011]

2011-11-11 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks, does any of you not read the blog or planet regularly? Do you think it makes sense to send the weekly community newsletter to this list, too? Let me know, stef --- Begin Message --- OpenStack Community Newsletter – November 11, 2011 HIGHLIGHTS * New weekly graphs of commit

Re: [Openstack-community] Need your experience sharing of User Group

2011-11-11 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 17:58 +0900, Jaesuk Ahn wrote: > could you please send me "openstack-overview-datashee" as an editable > file so that I can translate the contents into Korean? I am looking for the source of that file. I'll let you know when it's available. thanks, stef -- Mailing list

Re: [Openstack-community] Need your experience sharing of User Group

2011-11-04 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hi Yoyo this is definitely a recurring question. We should probably start collecting some experiences from around the world and formalize them in a short guide. A starting point in general for user groups is the old HOWTO for Linux User Groups http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO-4.html I

Re: [Openstack-community] Greeting

2011-10-27 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 10/27/2011 01:28 PM, Stefano Maffulli wrote: > I'd like to start making a list of active user groups, like Masanori > suggested. After considering the options, I agree that the wiki is the > best place > > If you already have an account, add your group to this page I re

Re: [Openstack-community] Greeting

2011-10-27 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 10/27/2011 01:02 PM, Frans Thamura wrote: > strange, why stephen spector keep the openstack in googlegroups for > his own.. he resigned right, and why not give to another comm manager > in openstack? I don't think this is a problem or something worth discussing further. Launchpad is the best pl

Re: [Openstack-community] Greeting

2011-10-27 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello Masanori, On 10/26/2011 11:24 PM, Masanori ITOH wrote: > 2. Let's create a list of regional/local communities information including >urls of their homepages/MLs and contact persons there. >For example, it would be like: > Global ... > Japan HP: http://openstack.jp/ >