Thanks for being part of the RDO community! RDO is the latest stable OpenStack packaged for RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, and derivative distributions, making it as easy as possible to deploy OpenStack on the industry's most trusted Linux platforms. It's been an exciting and busy month for RDO, and we have even more planned for October and beyond. September Events: Since the last newsletter, there have been a number of events around RDO. We're keeping track of upcoming events in the RDO wiki, at http://openstack.redhat.com/Events so if you have any RDO or OpenStack events that you'd like to promote to the RDO community, please go ahead and add them there, so that we can help you get the word out. On September 10th and 11th, we had the Havana RDO Test Day - http://openstack.redhat.com/RDO_Test_Day_September_2013 - where we tested various scenarios on RDO OpenStack. We had dozens of people participate in testing, and 15 testers opened 29 Bugzilla tickets. The 'Tested Setups' page - http://openstack.redhat.com/TestedSetups - is an ongoing effort to track the status of these tickets, as well as other common scenarios, and their progress from one release of RDO to another. If you're testing RDO, please update that page with your results, so that we can continue to make RDO better. LinuxCon North America was in New Orleans during the week of September 16, and Rich was there working in the OpenStack booth with community members from various other OpenStack member companies. We had great conversations with people using OpenStack on various platforms for various kinds of tasks, from deploying VMs for Computer Science students at East Carolina University to managing low-energy server hardware at the Servergy. It's exciting to be part of such a fast-moving project, spanning so many companies and use cases. On September 24th, we hosted a Google Hangout where Dave Neary gave an overview of OpenStack networking with Neutron. Although it's hard to get exact numbers, it appears that around 65 people attended, despite the technical difficulties we had getting the Hangout going. You can watch the recording of the event at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afImoFeuDnY And we're hoping to have more of these in the coming months. You should watch the RDO forum - http://openstack.redhat.com/forum/ - for an announcement of date and time. Upcoming Events: There's a lot coming up in October, and, once again, we encourage you to watch the events page in the wiki, and to add events that you know about so that we can help you get the word out. This week in Paris is the Open World Forum - http://openworldforum.org/ - covering a wide range of Open Source topics. A number of members of the RDO community will be giving talks there - Dave Neary will be there presenting on the Open Hybrid Cloud - http://openworldforum.org/en/tracks/21#talk_87 , Steve Hardy will be speaking about Heat and Orchestration in OpenStack - http://www.openworldforum.org/en/tracks/21#talk_93 , and Hervé Lemaitre will be speaking about building an open hybrid cloud with Open Source - http://www.openworldforum.org/en/tracks/8#talk_175 On October 3rd, OpenStack France is having another meetup - http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-France/events/133517702/ , and on December 6th, the Swiss OpenStack User Group will be holding a meetup at CERN - http://www.meetup.com/openstack-ch/events/138151562/ Later in the month - October 21-23 - many of the Red Hat OpenStack team will be at LinuxCon Europe, CloudOpen, and the KVM Forum in Edinburgh, Scotland - http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe We would love to talk with you about what you're doing with RDO, so please drop me a note (rbowen(a)redhat.com) if you're going to be there, and we'll work something out. October 17th is an exciting date in the OpenStack community. That's the day when OpenStack Havana will be released. With the great success of the test day in September, we'd like to do a followup test day after the Havana release. But with so many of us travelling the week after the release, we're planning to do this next test day on October 29th and 30th. You can find out more about this event at http://openstack.redhat.com/RDO_Test_Day_October_2013 and in the RDO forums as we get closer to the event. We would love to have you join us and kick the tires on this new release, and our packaging of it. By the time the next edition of the newsletter goes out, we'll be on the way to Hong Kong for the OpenStack Summit - http://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-hong-kong-2013/ It's the big event for OpenStack developers and users, and it would be great to see you there. The agenda has just been published, at http://openstacksummitnovember2013.sched.org/ and there's a lot of great content, including presentations on RDO. Articles: Participation in the RDO wiki has been way up over the last month, and we have some great new articles to help you understand OpenStack. There's a new article explaining the difference between floating IPs and private IPs - http://openstack.redhat.com/Difference_between_Floating_IP_and_private_IP A writeup of using Neutron with your existing external network came in through the forum and is now in the wiki at http://openstack.redhat.com/Neutron_with_existing_external_network There's this new writeup of deploying an application using Heat - http://openstack.redhat.com/Deploy_an_application_with_Heat And, one more, an article on deploying RDO using Foreman - http://openstack.redhat.com/Deploying_RDO_Using_Foreman If you have something that you'd like to add to the conversation, please sign up and start writing. Your insight and examples on deploying OpenStack may help someone else who's doing a similiar thing. Don't worry if it's not polished or eloquent - the important thing is to capture the content, and other can help polish it later. User Stories: Speaking of your story, we want to hear what you're doing with OpenStack, and particularly with RDO. If you're using RDO, we'd like to hear about what you're doing, how you're doing it, and what you had to do to make things work. I'd like to talk with you, either via email, or speak with you, to get some of these stories written down. It's inspiring to the development team to see how their work is being used, and it's encouraging to new users of OpenStack to hear about other folks successfully deploying OpenStack. We'd also like to hear from you about what gives you the biggest problems in using RDO, or what you really love about it. We're looking towards doing the next series of usability improvements, and we want to be sure that we're in sync with you on what those should be. Please start a conversation on the forum if there's something that you find to be annoying or inconvenient that we could improve. Or, if you have a particular problem and work through it, tell us what the problem was and how you solved it, so that we can start thinking about ways to avoid that problem. It's also a big help to others facing the same problem Either way, drop by the RDO forum - http://openstack.redhat.com/forum/ - and tell us all about it. In Closing: Thanks again for being part of the RDO community. Please invite your friends to sign up for the list, at https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-newsletter and send them to the RDO Forum with their OpenStack questions. -- Rich, for the RDO Community http://openstack.redhat.com/ Twitter: @RDOCommunity Google+: https://plus.google.com/communities/110409030763231732154