[Rdo-list] [Rdo-newsletter] RDO Newsletter, April 2014

Happy Birthday RDO! Happy Birthday RDO! It's been a year since we launched the RDO project, in an attempt to make installing OpenStack on CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux a more pleasant experience. In that year we've grown from nothing to over 2000 downloads a day, and our community has grown to thousands across mailing lists, IRC channel, Twitter, Google+, and ask.openstack.org. You can see some of the statistics around the RDO effort at http://openstack.redhat.com/stats/ compiled by our friends at Bitergia. Thank you all for your participation in this effort, and for your hard work in making it happen! Thanks for being part of the RDO community! Please Take the OpenStack Community Survey Once again, the OpenStack Foundation is conducting a survey of OpenStack users. Please take ten minutes to fill out the survey, so that we can get a clearer picture of who is using OpenStack, what they're using it for, and how they'll be using it in the coming year. Start the survey at https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/Login Hangouts Last week, Flavio Percoco gave us a great introduction to OpenStack Marconi. Marconi is a project to develop a messaging and notification service, which is undergoing OpenStack incubation. If you missed it, you can watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe7qI3WY97c If you have followup questions, you can take them to the #openstack-marconi IRC channel on the Freenode network. You can see other past hangouts at http://openstack.redhat.com/Hangouts In April we'll be doing another hangout. This time the Heat team will be telling us about how you can use Heat to orchestrate your cloud. Watch http://openstack.redhat.com/Events for more details as they become available. April and May events April and May are exciting months for OpenStack, as we anticipate the OpenStack Icehouse release on April 17th, and the OpenStack Juno Summit starting May 12 in Atlanta - https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/ But that's not all that's going on. In the RDO community we've been following the CentOS Cloud SIG effort closely. We see a lot of people deploying production OpenStack clouds with RDO on CentOS and Scientific Linux, and so we are excited to see the CentOS developer community working towards a strong Cloud ecosystem. CentOS will be holding a dojo (community event) at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference (CCC) in Denver, Colorado, on April 10th. This event will include discussion of cloud deployments on CentOS. If you're attending either CCC or ApacheCon (http://na.apachecon.com/ ) consider staying for the CentOS dojo. See the schedule of events at http://cloudstackcollabconference2014.sched.org/overview/type/centos+dojo... and register at https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1499698 The following week, April 14-17, the Red Hat Summit will be held in San Francisco. In addition to content about Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other Red Hat products, there will be a substantial number of OpenStack and RDO talks, which we've listed in the blog post at http://openstack.redhat.com/forum/discussion/970/red-hat-summit-april -14th-17th-san-francisco OpenStack is currently in Feature Freeze. Thierry has a great explanation at http://fnords.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/why-we-do-feature-freeze/ of why we do this. And on April 17th, we expect OpenStack Icehouse to be released. Then, two weeks later, we'll be in Atlanta for the OpenStack Summit. It's the best place to learn about OpenStack, from installation to monitoring, from community to code. And RDO will be there. We'll have a booth where we'll be doing demos of various aspects of OpenStack using RDO, and we'll have engineers there presenting a wide range of presentations and hands-on labs - you can find those listed at http://community.redhat.com/events/#openstacksummitus If you're at Summit, please drop by the RDO booth to tell us your OpenStack stories. For those of you on the opposite side of the planet, LinuxCon Tokyo will be held May 20-22, and RDO will have a booth presence there, too, with several people from the RDO community in attendance. You can see more information about that event at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-japan although as of this writing the schedule has not yet been published. Stay in touch There's lots of ways to stay in touch with what's going on at RDO. For question-and-answer, we rely on http://ask.openstack.org/ Just be sure to tag your question as #rdo if you want the attention of the RDO engineers. ask.openstack.org gives you access to the best minds in the OpenStack community, as well as an archive of previous questions and answers that you can search. If you're more of a mailing list fan, the rdo-list mailing list is the place to be. It's fairly low volume - 3-5 messages a day - and a great place to get personal attention to your questions. And if you just want to get periodic updates on what's going on, we're on Twitter at @RDOCommunity. And don't forget to look at http://openstack.redhat.com/Events to see where RDO people will be speaking around the world. -- Rich Bowen, for the RDO Community Follow us on Twitter at @RDOCommunity Manage your newsletter subscription at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-newsletter See also the rdo-list mailing list at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list _______________________________________________ Rdo-newsletter mailing list Rdo-newsletter(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-newsletter