Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 1 April 2013

Welcome to the April 1 issue of the Apache CloudStack Weekly News. Don't worry, no foolishness in this issue – just a quick recap of the week's most important events.

As you recall, we officially announced that the CloudStack project was graduating from the incubator last week. Though there were no events quite of that magnitude this week,

Major Discussions

CloudStack Planet - Posts from the CloudStack Community

Newsworthy

CloudStack's graduation garnered quite a bit of press last week! Some of the coverage:

• CloudStack Ups 'Enterprise Credibility' with Apache Top-Level Status on Linux.com
• Apache CloudStack Advances Open Source Cloud Efforts on Datamation
• Apache helps free CloudStack from Citrix fetters on IT World
• Becoming the Apache Webserver of the Cloud on Peder Ulander's blog
• CloudStack rises to top level in Apache Software Foundation on The H Open
• CloudStack Graduates to Top-Level Apache Status on the RightScale blog
• Congratulations to Apache CloudStack on the Ceph Blog
• Apache CloudStack graduates, but is it qualified to challenge OpenStack? on Jaxenter
• Is the cloud too important for proprietary software? on TechCentral.ie

Upcoming Events and CFPs

• CloudStack Introduction and Basics - The inaugural meeting of the CloudStack NYC User Group will be Wednesday, April 10th in New York City. Sign up on Meetup.com.
• UK/European CloudStack user group meet-up will be April 11th in London.
• Storage in Apache CloudStack being held by the CloudStack SF Bay Area Users Group on April 30, 2013 @ Citrix Conference Center, sign up on the Meetup.com Website.
• CloudStack Bangalore Meetup Sometime in April, date not yet announced. Watch the Meetup page for details.

Calls for Papers

Want to help promote Apache CloudStack? Submit a talk at one of the conferences or events listed here. (Missing an event? Please send a note to marketing@cloudstack.apache.org). Note that events are listed in order of the close of the CFP, not the order of the events themselves.

• Cloud Expo takes place June 10 through June 13 in New York, NY. CFP closes on April 5. See http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com/general/papers2013east.htm.
• VMworld takes place from August 26 through August 29. CFP closes on April 12th. See http://www.vmworld.com/community/conference/cfp.
• CloudSlam takes place on June 18th in Santa Clara, CA. CFP closes on April 25th. See http://cloudslam.org/cfp.
• CloudConnect Chicago takes place from September 10 through 13 in Chicago, IL. The CFP closes on April 29th. See http://www.cloudconnectevent.com/chicago/call-for-submissions/.
• CloudOpen and LinuxCon take place from September 16 through 18 in New Orleans, LA. The CFP closes on June 17th. See http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen/cfp.
• Ohio LinuxFest takes place from September 13 through 15 in Columbus, OH. The CFP closes on July 8th. See http://www.ohiolinux.org/cfp.

Jira

4.1.0 is still in process, but getting much closer to completion. Here's the numbers so far:

• Last week: 3 blocker bugs. This week: 2 blocker bugs, only one of which is truly a bug. (The other is a task that must be completed before release.)
• Last week: 6 critical bugs. This week: 5 critical bugs
• Last week: 126 major bugs. This week: 122 major bugs
• Last week: 22 minor bugs. This week: 23 minor bugs

New Committers and PMC Members

The Apache CloudStack project is proud to welcome two new committers this week!

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