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.

4.1 Releases

The first major release of Apache CloudStack since it became a top level project was released on June 5, 2013 and is available. For more information, please see the official announcement:

4.2 Feature Freeze Push Back

Due to the delays in releasing 4.1 release, it was requested by many in the community to push back the freeze date. Chip Childers called for a Vote on 5/31 to move the Feature Freeze back from 5/31 to 6/28. The push back was approved with 19 +1 votes.

CloudStack Community Survey Underway

Please let your voice and your organization be heard in this short survey. We would like to have both users of the Apache CloudStack source and Commercial derivatives, "We will be using the data in aggregate to get
to know more about how it's being deployed out there." Chip Childers commented. Click Here to take the short survey.

CloudStack Planet

• CloudStack University by Sebastien Goasguen: At Apache CloudStack we recently started an initiative to organize our content into learning modules. We call this initiative CloudStack University. Everyone is invited to participate by contributing content (slides and screencasts), suggesting new learning modules that are needed and even creating exercises and assignments. School fun ! As we were discussing the initiative on the mailing list we started by looking at our existing content: slideshares, youtube videos and thought about organizing them into a CloudStack 101 course. This is still a work in progress that requires everyones participation to make it a great resource.

• Videographer is working with CloudStack to build a video library for the project. If you have great ideas that you think would be even better on video, then this is the time to get them out there. Talk with Jessica Tomachek and you may be able to work with professional videographer Gregg Witkin. Check out these videos that Greg did with CloudStack just last year. Link 1, Link 2

Upcoming Events

Don't miss the CloudStack Collaboration Conference, which is coming up June 23 through June 25.

• Open Cloud Day in Zurich, June 11th. Sebastien Goasguen will talk about the Apache Cloud ecosystem.
• Build a Cloud Day Paris Paris, June 19th.
• ShapeBlue CloudStack BootCamp being held June 22/23 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
• CloudStack San Francisco Users Group Event being held at SAP Labs in Palo Alto CA. on June 27th.

New Committers and PMC Members

• John Burwell has been invited to join the CloudStack PMC, and has accepted
• Sailaja Mada has been invited to become a CloudStack committer, and has accepted
• Venkata Swamy has been invited to become a CloudStack committer, and has accepted
• Wei Zhou has been invited to become a CloudStack committer, and has accepted
• Sangeetha Hariharan has been invited to become a CloudStack committer, and has accepted