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[Stefano Maffulli <stefano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Highlights of the week


     OpenStack Outreach Program for Women Accepting Candidates
     <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/11/openstack-outreach-program-for-women-accepting-candidates/>

OpenStack provides open source software for building public and private 
clouds. We are constantly moving and growing and very excited to invite 
newcomers to our community. To this end, the OpenStack Foundation has 
joined the GNOME Outreach Program for Women 
<https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen>. Join the list of 
mentors, contribute ideas 
<http://wiki.openstack.org/OutreachProgramForWomen/Ideas>, apply as intern.


     What's new in libvirt for the OpenStack Nova Folsom release
     <http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/16/what-was-new-in-libvirt-for-the-openstack-nova-folsom-release/>

Even if Folsom has been out for a while now, Daniel P. Berrangé 
<http://berrange.com/> provided a little more detail on some of the 
changes he was involved with making to the libvirt driver and what 
motivated them.


     Why to refactor the virt disk API in Nova
     <http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/15/692/>

When launching a virtual machine, Nova <http://openstack.org/> has the 
ability to inject various files into the disk image immediately prior to 
boot up. Nova runs as an unprivileged user, and the guest files to be 
changed are typically owned as root. This means all the file injection 
commands need to run via Nova's rootwrap utility to gain root 
privileges. It should come as little surprise that this has already 
resulted in a security vulnerability / CVE 
<https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14089.html> against Nova. The 
solution to this class of security problems is to decouple the file 
injection code from the host filesystem. Read more on Daniel's blog post 
<http://berrange.com/posts/2012/11/15/692/>.


     Swift 1.7.5 Released
     <http://swiftstack.com/blog/2012/11/14/swift-1.7.5-release/>

Swift 1.7.5 has been released. This release is the work of twenty-seven 
contributors and includes several important new features and bug fixes.


     Making keystoneclient python library a little easier to work with
     <http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/2012/11/11/making-keystoneclient-python-library-a-little-easier-to-work-with/>

A quick guide to using the python keystoneclient library and some of its 
new features, with v2 API examples throughout.


     Installing OpenStack Nova Compute on Hyper-V
     <http://www.cloudbase.it/installing-openstack-nova-compute-on-hyper-v/>

A lot of work went on OpenStack and Hyper-V integration, with the result 
of bringing back Hyper-V in the Nova sources 
<https://github.com/openstack/nova> in time for the Folsom release. Get 
started with OpenStack and Hyper-V using the installer developed by 
Cloudbase Solutions.


   Security Advisories

 * CVE-2012-4573, CVE-2012-5482 -- Authentication bypass for image
   deletion
   <http://secstack.org/2012/11/cve-2012-4573-cve-2012-5482-authentication-bypass-for-image-deletion/>


   Tips and tricks

 * By Hui Cheng <http://freedomhui.com/>: How to Deploy Hadoop Cluster
   In Openstack Intances Using Apache Ambari
   <http://freedomhui.com/2012/11/how-to-deploy-hadoop-cluster-using-apache-ambari/>
 * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: OpenStack Retrieve
   usage statictics
   <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/11/09/tip-openstack-retrieve-usage-statictic/>


   Upcoming Events

 * OpenStack Delhi NCR Meetup
   <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/90700582/>
   Nov 17, 2012 -- Delhi, India Details
   <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/90700582/>
 * Australian OpenStack User Group -- Brisbane Technical Meetup
   <http://aosug.openstack.org.au/> Nov 20, 2012 -- Brisbane and other
   cities Details <http://aosug.openstack.org.au/>
 * OpenStack China Tour: Nanjing
   <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=155> Nov 24, 2012 --
   Nanjing, China Details <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=155>
 * OpenStack Users November meetup
   <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/90021782/>
   Nov 25, 2012 -- Bangalore, India Details
   <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/90021782/>
 * OpenStack Israel <http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/87103152/>
   Nov 27, 2012 -- Tel Aviv, Israel Register
   <http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/87103152/>
 * OpenStack in action!
   <http://openstackinaction3theopenrevolution.eventbrite.com/> Nov 29,
   2012 -- Paris, France Register
   <http://openstackinaction3theopenrevolution.eventbrite.com/>
 * Pune OpenStack Meetup
   <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/89610092/>
   Dec 02, 2012 -- Pune, India Details
   <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/89610092/>
 * EMEA OpenStack Day <http://emeaopenstackday2.eventbrite.com/> Dec
   05, 2012 -- London Details <http://emeaopenstackday2.eventbrite.com/>


   Other news

 * MediaGoblin adding support to OpenStack Swift
   <http://maffulli.net/2012/11/14/mediagoblin-adding-support-to-openstack-swift/>
 * Report from China OpenStack Tour @ Xi'an
   <http://freedomhui.com/2012/11/china-openstack-tour-xian/>
 * Question about Oslo library versioning
   <http://markmail.org/message/yklxhylbsmyjjpx7>
 * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary
   <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-13-21.01.html>
   and full logs
   <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-11-13-21.01.log.html>


   Foundation News

 * OpenStack Foundation Board Meeting Unofficial Minutes Nov 16
   <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-November/001249.html>
 * OpenStack Foundation Board Meeting Official Minutes Nov 2
   <http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/02Nov2012BoardMinutes>


   Welcome new contributors

Celebrating the first patches submitted this month by:

 * Hendrik Volkmer, Cloudbau
 * Andrew Bogott, Wikimedia Foundation
 * Tim Daly, Jr, Yahoo! Inc
 * Darren Worrall

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