Superuser weekend reading

Here’s the news from the OpenStack world you won’t want to miss — the musings, polemics and questions posed by the larger community.

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In Case You Missed It

Last week, there was an OpenStack QA Code Sprint for Kilo, where community members gathered to finish some high priority items for the Kilo launch, currently slated for April 30. Matt Treinish, OpenStack Software Engineer at HP shared a blog post about their work with DevStack, Tempest and other bugs that needed to be squashed. For a full account of the week’s work, check out the etherpad.

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After four years, Nebula, an OpenStack Gold Member and long-term supporter, announced on April 1 that it is shutting down, prompting an outpour of gratitude from the community for its ongoing contributions to OpenStack.

In response to Nebula’s news, Rob Hirschfeld, an OpenStack board member, relays in his blog post why it’s important for the OpenStack community to care about funds flowing to leaders and contributors, making the connection to the time he invests in DefCore in order to help create healthy vendors.

It’s no April Fools Joke: GoDaddy, an OpenStack user and contributor, announced its Initial Public Offering (IPO), raising $460 million on its first day, causing stock prices to rise more than 30 percent. After GoDaddy recently announced the beta version of its cloud based on OpenStack, it will be interesting to see what’s next to come from this IPO.

More hot Wall Street news comes from ecosystem member, Red Hat, whose shares rose 4.5 percent in after-market trading on Wednesday as the company benefited from higher demand for open-source software and its cloud-based products.

Our whitepaper just came out on the #openstack org site. –> http://t.co/JsLdDhV96N @tgelter @vmwarensx @vmwarevsan @VMware_OS @vmwaresddc

— Frans van Rooyen (@jfvanrooyen) April 1, 2015

We build an #OpenStack Community for the local market! #OpenStack website live! http://t.co/R8oeGGtRza http://t.co/35BWQHax8W

— Guston Remie (@GustonRemie) March 30, 2015

Spun up a new #Openstack Tenet for my wedding website. Possibly overkill.

— Ryan (@RyanHugh) March 30, 2015

It has begun. #OpenStack "Writing your First OpenStack Application" tutorial pic.twitter.com/asalR7yi7p

— @[email protected] (@sc68cal) March 30, 2015

It is true. We are shutting down today. We’ve had quite the run and have enjoyed every minute “democratizing the cloud” #LLAP

— Nebula Inc. (@NebulaInc) April 1, 2015

https://twitter.com/interrante/status/583428772461993985

And @GoDaddy is officially open pic.twitter.com/7ZrMPJwoHI

— NYSE 🏛 (@NYSE) April 1, 2015

If you are attending PyCon or live in Montreal & would like to volunteer at the #OpenStack booth, sign up for a time: http://t.co/bZAp0EMiPe

— OpenStack (@OpenStack) March 27, 2015

OpenStack First App is now in gerrit for review! https://t.co/Go0pDzftrk cc @TomFifield @mmmucky

— @[email protected] (@sc68cal) April 3, 2015

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Allison Price

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Allison manages Marketing Content initiatives including case study development, advertising campaigns, the Superuser online publication and OpenStack User Survey. Her past roles have specialized in social strategy and execution for both B2B and B2C global companies in the technology and consumer industries. In her spare time, she enjoys finding new hiking trails and sharing her love with Celine Dion with anyone and everyone who will listen.