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We are into deep work on 4.2.0 and need your help in making the grade. There's a lot of interesting discussions going on into the community about the next generation of CloudStack and functionality we can provide as well as some procedural adjustments everyone should be aware of.
News Moving to Wednesdays
To help get information out a little more timely to key discussions and information that is going on in the community we are going to move the publishing of the weekly news to Wednesdays starting with this issue on July 10th!
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.
4.2 Release
Progress on 4.1.1 Release
CloudStack Planet
What's going on in the CloudStack community? While all the discussion happens on the mailing lists, we also encourage members of the CloudStack community to share what they're working on their blogs. In this section, you'll find posts by Apache CloudStack community members and interesting news that's relevant to Apache CloudStack.
CloudStack European User Group Summary
The ShapeBlue blog has a summary of the most recent meeting, by Giles Sirett.
Apache Whirr and CloudStack for Big Data in the Clouds
Sebastien Goasguen has a tutorial on his blog about using Apache Whirr with CloudStack. "In this tutorial we introduce Apache Whirr, an application that can be used to define, provision and configure big data solutions on CloudStack based clouds. Whirr automatically starts instances in the cloud and boostrapps hadoop on them. It can also add packages such as Hive, Hbase and Yarn for map-reduce jobs."
In Case You're Not Already Sold on DevOps
Joe Brockmeier talks a bit about Gene Kim's keynote at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference, "Why Every Company Needs DevOps Now."
Interview with The Cloudcast (.net)
Chip Childers and David Nalley sit down with Aaron Delp for the Cloudcast podcast. Be sure to give it a listen!
New Videos Coming Soon From Our Summer Video Project
Gregg Witkin and Jessica Tomechak are working together on videos this summer. Gregg hit the ground running by bringing his cameras to the Collab Conference June 24-25 in Santa Clara. He is editing that footage into short clips to help promote the November CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Amsterdam.
These short videos will be posted as soon as the conference organizers approve them. Meanwhile, check out these videos Gregg did with CloudStack just last year. Link 1, Link 2
Events
- Apache CloudStack Meetup in Hyderabad, India on July 20th. Location is TBD, but will be published on Meetup.com.
- 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.
- CloudStack Meetup at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA on August 7th from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Be sure to RSVP on Meetup.com!
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