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Thanks for being a part of the RDO community! This is an important<br>
newsletter, as there are some changes coming to the RDO website that<br>
you'll want to know about.<br>
<br>
<b>ask.rdoproject.org</b><br>
<br>
The Q&A aspects of our forum have now moved to
ask.openstack.org,<br>
using the #RDO tag to distinguish content that is RDO-specific. The<br>
url ask.rdoproject.org is simply a handy redirect to<br>
ask.openstack.org showing all questions that are for RDO.<br>
<br>
The advantages of this move are many, including engaging a larger<br>
community of experts, and getting many of the features in the forum<br>
which a number of you have expressed frustration about.<br>
<br>
The transition period is likely to be a little rocky, and we want to<br>
ensure that your questions which you've already asked here are not<br>
abandoned in the move. There's a few things that you can do to help<br>
out, if you're one of the people who have unanswered questions<br>
pending at the time of the move.<br>
<br>
1) If you want to post a new question, post it at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/questions/ask/?tags=rdo">https://ask.openstack.org/en/questions/ask/?tags=rdo</a> If you don't<br>
already have an ask.openstack.org account, go ahead and create one.<br>
a.o.o accepts OAuth logins, so you can use your Google account, or<br>
LaunchPad, or a variety of other OAuth sources.<br>
<br>
2) If you want to see the RDO questions that are already on<br>
ask.openstack, you can see them at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ask.rdoproject.org/">http://ask.rdoproject.org/</a> We're<br>
also working on pulling a feed of those questions over to the RDO<br>
site, to make it easier to pick out the RDO-specific conversations.<br>
<br>
3) If you already have a question that you've posted to the RDO<br>
forum, and it's not answered yet, you might want to move it over to<br>
ask.openstack.org where it can get more eyes on it. If you do so,<br>
please add [MOVED to a.o.o] in the subject line here, so that we
know<br>
to go look there. You could also add the URL of the new location in<br>
the message itself.<br>
<br>
4) If you're a frequent poster on ask.openstack and wish to identify<br>
yourself as part of the RDO community, consider adding the RDO logo<br>
to your avatar, like Lars:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ask.openstack.org/en/users/1745/larsks/">https://ask.openstack.org/en/users/1745/larsks/</a><br>
<br>
<b>Keep In Touch</b><br>
<br>
Although the forum is already seeing less traffic, we still want to<br>
stay in touch. There are several different ways to do this.<br>
<br>
Subscribe to the main RDO mailing list - rdo-list - at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list</a> This is the main<br>
mailing list for user support, discussion, and community updates.<br>
<br>
We're on Twitter, at @rdocommunity, and we're on Google Plus, at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://plus.google.com/communities/110409030763231732154">https://plus.google.com/communities/110409030763231732154</a> and
there's<br>
always lots of good content from various RDO engineers at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openstack.redhat.com/planet/">http://openstack.redhat.com/planet/</a><br>
<br>
And there's still the forum - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openstack.redhat.com/forum/">http://openstack.redhat.com/forum/</a> -<br>
where we'll continue to post about events, releases, and other<br>
community news. You can subscribe for email updates in your user<br>
profile, or you can subscribe to the RSS feed at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openstack.redhat.com/forum/discussions/feed.rss">http://openstack.redhat.com/forum/discussions/feed.rss</a><br>
<br>
Finally, you can manage your subscription to this newsletter at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-newsletter">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-newsletter</a><br>
<br>
<b>Test Day</b><br>
<br>
We're tentatively planning the first RDO Test Day of 2014 for
January<br>
7th and 8th. Details are still a little sketchy, so please watch the<br>
rdo-list mailing list and the RDO Blog -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openstack.redhat.com/blog/">http://openstack.redhat.com/blog/</a><br>
- for updates in the days and weeks to come. We'll be testing the
first <br>
drops of the Icehouse release.<br>
<br>
<b>Other Events<br>
<br>
</b>November and early December have been busy with meetups, and
there's<br>
more to come.<br>
<br>
On November 13th, RDO was featured on the FLOSS Weekly podcast, and<br>
you can listen to/watch the interview at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/273">http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/273</a><br>
<br>
Dan Radez did a series of meetups in the north eastern United
States,<br>
hitting Philadelphia, Rocky Hill CT, and New York in three days. You<br>
can see his slides at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.slideshare.net/danradez/open-stackmeetup-11-2013">http://www.slideshare.net/danradez/open-stackmeetup-11-2013</a><br>
<br>
OpenStack In Action, Paris, was held December 5th. Kashyap has a<br>
writeup at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/openstack-in-action-paris-5dec2013-quick-recap/">http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/openstack-in-action-paris-5dec2013-quick-recap/</a><br>
<br>
And the OpenStack CERN meetup was on December 6th -<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack-ch/events/138151562/">http://www.meetup.com/openstack-ch/events/138151562/</a> - with 63
people<br>
in attendance.<br>
<br>
OpenStack Israel - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstack-israel.org/">http://www.openstack-israel.org/</a> - was held<br>
December 9th in Jaffa and reports are just starting to come in.<br>
Follow @OpenStackIL on Twitter for the latest updates.<br>
<br>
And coming up there's the inaugural Cincinnatti OpenStack Meetup -<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack-cincinnati/events/140978162/">http://www.meetup.com/openstack-cincinnati/events/140978162/</a> - on<br>
December 17th. I'll be at that one, and will be bringing a little
bit<br>
of RDO swag along. I'd love to meet some of you.<br>
<br>
If you're looking a little further out, don't forget that FOSDEM -<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fosdem.org/2014/">https://fosdem.org/2014/</a> - will be in Brussels, January 1st - 2nd,<br>
and there will be a Virtualization and IaaS DevRoom there -<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/virtualisation_and_iaas/">https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/virtualisation_and_iaas/</a> -<br>
where you can learn a lot about OpenStack, among other things, and<br>
meet some of the RDO community.<br>
<br>
<b>Articles</b><br>
<br>
As always, the RDO community has been producing a great deal of new<br>
content - blogs, wiki pages, and so on.<br>
<br>
There's a new page in the wiki on the modular layer 2 (ML2) plugin -<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openstack.redhat.com/Modular_Layer_2_(ML2)_Plugin">http://openstack.redhat.com/Modular_Layer_2_(ML2)_Plugin</a> .<br>
<br>
Adam Young writes about submitting patches to Keystone, in 'Expect<br>
the minus one' -<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/11/expect-the-minus-one/">http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/11/expect-the-minus-one/</a><br>
<br>
Lars Kellogg-Stedman writes about a collection of useful OpenStack<br>
tools at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.oddbit.com/2013/11/12/a-random-collection/">http://blog.oddbit.com/2013/11/12/a-random-collection/</a><br>
<br>
Matthias Runge wrote up his experience at the OpenStack Summit:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.matthias-runge.de/wordpress/2013/11/12/openstack-summit-hong-kong/">http://www.matthias-runge.de/wordpress/2013/11/12/openstack-summit-hong-kong/</a><br>
<br>
And there's so much more. You can get all caught up at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openstack.redhat.com/planet/">http://openstack.redhat.com/planet/</a><br>
<br>
<b>In Closing</b><br>
<br>
Please don't hesitate to send me any comments you may have, either<br>
via email (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rbowen@redhat.com">rbowen@redhat.com</a>) or Twitter (@rdocommunity), or on IRC<br>
(#rdo on Freenode). We want to know what we're doing right and
wrong.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Rich Bowen - <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rbowen@redhat.com">rbowen@redhat.com</a><br>
For the RDO community
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