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          1170px;">If you have any trouble with the formatting of this
          message, you can read it online at
          <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rdoproject.org/newsletter/2017/september">http://rdoproject.org/newsletter/2017/september</a><br>
          <br>
          Thanks for being part of the RDO community!
          <h2 id="rdo-pike-released" style="box-sizing: border-box;
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            0px 20px; font-size: 22pt;">RDO Pike Released!</h2>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">The RDO
            community is pleased to announce the general availability of
            the RDO build for OpenStack Pike for RPM-based
            distributions, CentOS Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.</p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px;">Pike
            is the 16th release from the<span> </span><a
              href="http://openstack.org/" data-external="true"
              style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color:
              transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration:
              none; cursor: pointer;">OpenStack project</a>, which is
            the work of more than 2300 contributors from around the
            world (<a href="http://stackalytics.com/"
              data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
              background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
              text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">source</a>). Pike
            released upstream on<span> </span><a
              href="https://releases.openstack.org/pike/index.html"
              data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
              background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
              text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">August 30th</a>,
            after which RDO packages had to be created and tested
            through CI. These packages were then made available on
            September 1st.</p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px;">The
            release is described in greater detail in the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.rdoproject.org/blog/2017/09/rdo-pike-released/"
              data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
              background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
              text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">RDO blog</a>, and
            we encourage you to follow our blog for future updates.</p>
          <h2 id="openstack-ptg" style="box-sizing: border-box;
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            0px 20px; font-size: 22pt;">OpenStack PTG</h2>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">Next week, the
            OpenStack Foundation will hold the second edition of the<span> </span><a
              href="http://openstack.org/ptg" data-external="true"
              style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color:
              transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration:
              none; cursor: pointer;">OpenStack PTG</a>, in Denver,
            Colorado. At this event, project teams discuss what will go
            into the Queens release. Teams also meet together to discuss
            how those projects interact, and which team will implement
            which feathre.</p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px;">These
            meetings run from September 11th through September 15th,
            after which we'll start to hear from the various project
            teams about what to expect in Queens.</p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px;">Rich
            Bowen will be at the PTG to conduct video interviews, as he
            did in Atlanta earlier this year. (You can see the videos
            from last time<span> </span><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kT-Sv3rkTw&list=PLOuHvpVx7kYksG0NFaCaQsSkrUlj3Oq4S"
              data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
              background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
              text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">on YouTube</a>.)
            If you're planning to be there, please consider<span> </span><a
              href="http://tm3.org/ptg-interviews" data-external="true"
              style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color:
              transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration:
              none; cursor: pointer;">signing up</a><span> </span>to
            talk about what you did during the Pike cycle, or how you
            are using OpenStack.</p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px;">Other
            RDO events, including the many OpenStack meetups around the
            world, are always listed on the<span> </span><a
              href="http://rdoproject.org/events" data-external="true"
              style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color:
              transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration:
              none; cursor: pointer;">RDO events page</a>. If you have
            an RDO-related event, please feel free to add it by
            submitting a pull request<span> </span><a
href="https://github.com/OSAS/rh-events/blob/master/2016/RDO-Meetups.yml"
              data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
              background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
              text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">on Github</a>.</p>
          <h2 id="other-events-" style="box-sizing: border-box;
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            0px 20px; font-size: 22pt;">Other Events …</h2>
          <h3 id="centos-dojo-at-cern" style="box-sizing: border-box;
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            0px 10px; font-size: 16pt;">CentOS Dojo at CERN</h3>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">RDO will be
            participating in a CentOS Dojo, or community gathering, at
            CERN, in Meyrin, Switzerland, on October 20th. You can find
            out more about the event, and sign up, at<span> </span><a
              href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/649159/overview"
              data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
              background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
              text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">the event website</a>.</p>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px;">At
            this meetup, we'll have a report on what has been happening
            in RDO over the last few months. And we'll hear a report
            from CERN about how they are using RDO in their data center
            as part of the research that happens at CERN.</p>
          <h3 id="open-source-summit" style="box-sizing: border-box;
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            0px 10px; font-size: 16pt;">Open Source Summit</h3>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">The Open
            Source Summit (formerly known as LinuxCon) will be held<span> </span><a
href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-north-america"
              data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
              background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
              text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">in Los Angeles
              next week</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a
href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-europe"
              data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
              background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
              text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">in Prague</a><span> </span>in
            October. RDO will have a presence at both events, in the Red
            Hat booth. Drop by for RDO stickers, OpenStack cheatcheet
            bookmarks, and RDO advice.</p>
          <h3 id="openstack-days" style="box-sizing: border-box;
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            0px 10px; font-size: 16pt;">OpenStack Days</h3>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">The following
            OpenStack days are coming up, and each of them will have RDO
            enthusiasts in attendance:</p>
          <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 20px;
            margin-bottom: 10px;">
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://www.openstack.nl/en/events/"
                data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
                background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
                text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Sep 14, 2017 -
                OpenStack Days Benelux, Bussum, NL</a></li>
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://openstackdays.uk/2017/"
                data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
                background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
                text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Sep 26, 2017 -
                OpenStack Days UK, London</a></li>
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://openstackday.it/" data-external="true"
                style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color:
                transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration:
                none; cursor: pointer;">Sep 28 - 29, 2017 - OpenStack
                Days Italy, Milan</a></li>
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://www.openstackdaysistanbul.com/"
                data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
                background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
                text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Oct 17, 2017 -
                OpenStack Days Turkey, Istanbul</a></li>
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://openstacknordic.org/copenhagen2017/"
                data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
                background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
                text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Oct 18 - 19,
                2017 - OpenStack Days Nordic, Copenhagen</a></li>
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://www.openstackcanada.com/"
                data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
                background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
                text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Oct 19, 2017
                OpenStack Days Canada, Ottawa</a></li>
          </ul>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">If you're
            speaking at any of these events, please get in touch with
            me, so that I can help promote your presence there.</p>
          <h3 id="meetups" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
            Raleway, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1;
            color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin: 20px 0px 10px; font-size:
            16pt;">Meetups</h3>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">Finally, we
            encourage you to attend your local OpenStack meetup. There's
            hundreds of them, all over the world, every day. We post a
            list of upcoming meetups to the RDO mailing list each
            Monday, so that you can mark your calendar. Or you can
            search<span> </span><a href="https://www.meetup.com/"
              data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
              background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
              text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">meetup.com</a><span> </span>for
            events near you.</p>
          <h2 id="community-meetings" style="box-sizing: border-box;
            font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;
            line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin: 50px
            0px 20px; font-size: 22pt;">Community meetings</h2>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">Every
            Wednesday at 15:00 UTC, we have the weekly RDO community
            meeting on the #RDO channel on Freenode IRC. The agenda for
            this meeting is posted each week in a<span> </span><a
              href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/RDO-Meeting"
              data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
              background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
              text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">public etherpad</a><span> </span>and
            the minutes from the meeting are posted<span> </span><a
              href="https://www.rdoproject.org/community/community-meeting/"
              data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
              background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
              text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">on the RDO
              website</a>. If there's something you'd like to see happen
            in RDO - a package that is missing, a tool that you'd like
            to see included, or a change in how things are governed -
            this is the best time and place to help make that happen.</p>
          <h2 id="keep-in-touch" style="box-sizing: border-box;
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            0px 20px; font-size: 22pt;">Keep in touch</h2>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">There's lots
            of ways to stay in in touch with what's going on in the RDO
            community. The best ways are …</p>
          <h3 id="www" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
            Raleway, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1;
            color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin: 20px 0px 10px; font-size:
            16pt;">WWW</h3>
          <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;
            margin-bottom: 10px;">
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://rdoproject.org/" data-external="true"
                style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color:
                transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration:
                none; cursor: pointer;">RDO</a></li>
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://ask.openstack.org/" data-external="true"
                style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color:
                transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration:
                none; cursor: pointer;">OpenStack Q&A</a></li>
          </ul>
          <h3 id="mailing-lists" style="box-sizing: border-box;
            font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;
            line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin: 20px
            0px 10px; font-size: 16pt;">Mailing Lists:</h3>
          <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;
            margin-bottom: 10px;">
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list"
                data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
                background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
                text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">rdo-list
                mailing list</a></li>
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-newsletter"
                data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
                background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
                text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">This newsletter</a></li>
          </ul>
          <h3 id="irc" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
            Raleway, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1;
            color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin: 20px 0px 10px; font-size:
            16pt;">IRC</h3>
          <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;
            margin-bottom: 10px;">
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;">IRC - #rdo on
              Freenode.irc.net</li>
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Puppet module
              development - #rdo-puppet</li>
          </ul>
          <h3 id="social-media" style="box-sizing: border-box;
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            line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin: 20px
            0px 10px; font-size: 16pt;">Social Media</h3>
          <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;
            margin-bottom: 10px;">
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://twitter.com/rdocommunity"
                data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
                background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
                text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Follow us on
                Twitter</a></li>
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://tm3.org/rdogplus" data-external="true"
                style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color:
                transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration:
                none; cursor: pointer;">Google+</a></li>
            <li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a
                href="http://facebook.com/rdocommunity"
                data-external="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;
                background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 122, 183);
                text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Facebook</a></li>
          </ul>
          <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">Thanks again
            for being part of the RDO community!</p>
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