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It's been another busy week for the Apache CloudStack project. This week we welcome another new committer, work continues on 4.1.1 and 4.2.0, and we have some interesting discussions on how we should release the CloudMonkey and Marvin tools used with CloudStack. We've also seen a few interesting marketing discussions, and the community is gearing up for the second CloudStack Collaboration Conference taking place 23 June through 25 June in Santa Clara, CA.

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2013 - Only 1 week away!

The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2013 (CCC13) hasn't even begun yet and the collaboration, excitement and participation for the event is already in full swing. Here are some of the highlights and notes to remember for attendees.

• Registration opens on Sunday, June 25th at 4:30pm right before the Welcome Cocktail Reception.
• Joe Brockmeier has already started planning discussion for the Hack Day. Topics like Storage Architecture with John Burwell, Documentation with Joe Brockmeier, and Apache Project integrations with Sebastien Goasguen. Check out the sessions on the wiki
• Gene Kim & Chip Childers will be kicking off the conference with keynotes on Monday, June 24th, 2013.
• Gene Kim will be doing book signings during the morning and afternoon breaks. The first 250 attendees to get registered for their badges at the conference will get a copy of The Phoenix Project.
• Adrian Cockcroft’s keynote has been announced. He will be closing the conference with his keynote, “Dystopia as a Service” on Tuesday, June 25th.
• Remember to sign up for the evening events – the CloudStack Roller Coaster Party requires a ticket.
• If you have not booked your hotel room yet – simply make your reservation here!

Major Discussions

In this section we look at major discussions that have happened on the CloudStack mailing lists. This is by no means a full summary of all discussions on the lists, but we try to hit the highlights that are relevant to the larger CloudStack community.

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In a heavily discussed topic throughout the community to allow the publishing of outside books about CloudStack on the CloudStack.Apache.Org website or wiki, it was finally voted on and decided to allow outside publications to be published. Right now Sebastien Goasguen has setup a wiki page and will work on where to have the permanent placement for this page. Sebastien posted the full results on June 12, but noted that there's a question about voting on a list that isn't dev@:

Wiki Markup

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Our

bylaws

{

(1

}

) do

not

cover

votes

on

non-technical

matters,

so

while

we

have

lazy

majority

on

this

vote

it

seems

that

this

situation

is

not

covered

by

the

bylaws.

Moreover

section

3.1.1

of

bylaws

says

that

decisions

on

the

project

happen

on

dev@,

so

it

seems

that

votes

even

on

marketing@

are

not

allowed

(unsure

about

this).

I

propose

the

following:

1-To

move

forward

without

having

to

re-cast

a

vote,

I

propose

to

list

immediately

the

books

on

the

Wiki,

and

inform

Packt.

I

just

created

the

page

{2}

(2)
2-

If

people

agree

that

we

have

a

bylaw

"loophole",

we

need

to

modify

the

bylaws

to

allow

votes

on

marketing@

and

agree

on

using

Lazy

majority

or

Lazy

2/3

majority.

Once

we

agree,

I

will

inform

users@

and

dev@

and

invite

folks

who

participated

in

this

vote

to

join

marketing@

3-

We

could

then

re-cast

a

vote

to

list

on

the

website

{1}

(1) http://cloudstack.apache.org/bylaws.html

{2}

(2) https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Books

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Google Summer of Code Update

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On May 29-31 the Japanese CloudStack User Group participated in the LinuxCon / CloudOpen 2013 in Tokyo. 20 volunteers helped with the CloudStack and Xen booth at the conference. During the conference there was also several sessions on building clouds with CloudStack, Cloudstack networking, and participation in a discussion panel with Google, Rackspace, NTT and Red Hat. Here are pictures of the event.

Upcoming Events

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2013 - Only 1 week away!

The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2013 (CCC13) hasn't even begun yet and the collaboration, excitement and participation for the event is already in full swing. Here are some of the highlights and notes to remember for attendees.

• Registration opens on Sunday, June 25th at 4:30pm right before the Welcome Cocktail Reception.
• Joe Brockmeier has already started planning discussion for the Hack Day. Topics like Storage Architecture with John Burwell, Documentation with Joe Brockmeier, and Apache Project integrations with Sebastien Goasguen. Check out the sessions on the wiki
• Gene Kim & Chip Childers will be kicking off the conference with keynotes on Monday, June 24th, 2013.
• Gene Kim will be doing book signings during the morning and afternoon breaks. The first 250 attendees to get registered for their badges at the conference will get a copy of The Phoenix Project.
• Adrian Cockcroft’s keynote has been announced. He will be closing the conference with his keynote, “Dystopia as a Service” on Tuesday, June 25th.
• Remember to sign up for the evening events – the CloudStack Roller Coaster Party requires a ticket.
• If you have not booked your hotel room yet – simply make your reservation here!

More Events

• Build a Cloud Day Paris Paris, June 19th.
• ShapeBlue CloudStack BootCamp being held June 19/20 in London,UK.
• ShapeBlue CloudStack BootCamp being held June 22/23 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
• Silicon Valley Riak hosting "Apache CloudStack + Riak CS: Building a Complete Private Cloud" in Santa Clara, CA, June 26th
• CloudStack San Francisco Users Group Event being held at SAP Labs in Palo Alto CA. on June 27th.
• CloudStack European User Group meeting being held in London, UK on July 4
• O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON) is being held July 22-26 at Oregon Convention Center, Portland Oregon. There will be several CloudStack talks.
• CloudStack Study Meeting Suzuki-san will be organizing a study meeting in Osaka on August 2.
• *OSC Kyoto The Japanese CloudStack User Group (JCSUG) will be presenting at the Open Source Conference in Kyoto on August 2-3

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