My apologies. I sent this last week, and addressed it to the wrong place. So the first few paragraphs are somewhat out of date. Thanks for being part of the RDO community! Upcoming Conferences This week I'm traveling in Belgium for FOSDEM and several other nearby events. It's a busy few days. FOSDEM - https://fosdem.org/2014/ - was in Brussels, Belgium, and around 5000 attendees were expected to attended, including a good contingent of the RDO and OpenStack community. There was a lot of great OpenStack content, which you can see listed at http://fnords.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/openstack-fosdem-14/ Immediately following FOSDEM, Config Management Camp is currently ongoing in the nearby town of Ghent, February 3 and 4. That's where I am right now, as I write this, You can read more about this event at http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ Config Management Camp doesn't have content directly about OpenStack, but of course Packstack is built on top of Puppet, and you can also deploy RDO with The Foreman, and there's a number of talks about both of those projects here. Following Config Management Camp, Red Hat is sponsoring Infrastructure.next, a one-day event - February 5 - around evolving tools and projects for managing large-scale IT infrastructure. From storage to configuration management to virtualization infrastructure, all the way to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). You can see the schedule of talks at http://lanyrd.com/2014/infranext/ Later in February, RDO will have a booth at SCALE - Southern California Linux Expo. That's February 21-23, in Los Angeles. You can find out more about SCALE at https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale12x On the 21st - the first day of SCALE - Red Hat will be sponsoring another Infrastructure.Next, where I'll be reprising my Ceilometer talk, and there will again be a lot of great content for people thinking about moving their services to a cloud infrastructure. Other Upcoming Events With the OpenStack Icehouse milestone 2 out on January 23rd, we'll be conducting another RDO test day on February 4th and 5th to hammer out any problems with this release. Find out more, and sign up to participate, at http://openstack.redhat.com/RDO_test_day_Icehouse_milestone_2 Derek Higgins will be presenting "Deploying OpenStack with Triple-O and Tuskar" at the OpenStack France Meet-up in Paris on February 11th: http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/161704432/ On Thusday, February 27th, Lars Kellogg-Stedman will be leading a Google Hangout in which he will be doing a walk-through of a multinode deployment with packstack.See http://openstack.redhat.com/Hangouts#Upcoming_Hangouts for details of this event, or follow us on Twitter (@rdocommunity) for a reminder closer to the event. CentOS Cloud SIG In January, Red Hat announced new involvement in the CentOS project. You can read more about that announcement at http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/1/red-hat-and-centos-... On the heels of that announcement, OpenStack and other cloud infrastructure projects have started talking about what this means for us, and how we can create variants of CentOS that make it easier to deploy these infrastructures. This conversation is happening on the centos-devel mailing list ( http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel ) so please join that list if you want to participate in the effort. You can also watch the "Office Hours" hangout at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKKYY_5SOWw in which members of the various cloud infrastructure projects discuss the way forward in creating a Cloud SIG (Special Interest Group) to produce these variants and liveCD distributions. IRC Meetings We've started several regular IRC meetings, to move what we're doing more into the public view. The weekly community team meeting, which had been happening on the phone, has moved to IRC. If you'd like to see what the community team is up to, come to the #rdo channel on Freenode at 9am Eastern USA time, each Tuesday. We also post a meeting summary to the rdo-list mailing list ( http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list ) for anyone who can't make it to the meeting. We've also started a bug triage meeting on IRC, in which we attempt to at least assign all of the open bugs that nobody's working on yet. The first of these was on Wednesday January 15th, and upcoming ones will be announced on the rdo-list mailing list until we figure out what the right cadence is for those meetings. Community events like these are posted on the RDO Community Google calendar. If you use Google Calendar, you can paste the following into the entry box under "Other calendars" where it says "Add a friend's calendar" - 6m0up994frfg2td6dpmubtn31s(a)group.calendar.google.com If you use some other calendaring software, you can subscribe using the ICS address: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/6m0up994frfg2td6dpmubtn31s%40group.ca... OpenStack Foundation elections The OpenStack foundation recently held elections for the board of directors. We'd like to extend a special congratulations to Mark McLoughlin who was elected as an Individual Director. You can see the full board at http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2014-January/001616.html One of the cool things about OpenStack is that although the directors represent various companies, they first represent OpenStack, and make decisions that benefit the project and the foundation first, and their companies come after. So we're proud that someone from the RDO community is on the board, and we're thrilled that he considers the well-being of the project to be the first priority. In Closing Thanks again for being part of the RDO community. We've hardly had a moment to catch our breath this year, and it looks like the pace is going to continue. So bring your friends and colleagues along to share the work, and to help take this exciting technology to the next level. Once again, you can keep up with what's going by following us on Twitter - @rdocommunity - or the rdo-list mailing list - http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list -- Rich Bowen, for the RDO community rbowen(a)redhat.com http://openstack.redhat.com/ @rdocommunity _______________________________________________ Rdo-newsletter mailing list Rdo-newsletter(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-newsletter