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If you’ve been keeping up with our weekly meetings and the 3.5 planning page, then you know that tomorrow, December 6, is the first testing “day” for 3.5. But since this is a Friday, we’re going to make the party last all weekend, through mid-day Monday.
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This post continues my holiday detour into things not necessarily tech related. Forgive me this indulgence – there is at least one more post I’ll make in a similar vein. Open Source communities are different. At least, I’ve always felt that they are. Think of the term “community manager.
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This is the first in a series of articles about innovation and open computing. Because it’s a holiday time of year in the USA, I’ve decided that these next few articles will be a detour from the usual stuff you’ll find here. Ever since a few of
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If you’ve been following the Gluster and Ceph communities for any length of time, you know that we have similar visions for open software-defined storage and are becoming more competitive with each passing day. We have been rivals in a similar space for some time, but on friendly terms
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We’ve been pushing out more info about our upcoming Gluster Days next week in London on October 29 and Frankfurt on October 30. The agendas are solid – if you attend, you will have a very solid grasp of the Gluster Community, what you can do with GlusterFS, how do
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As a long-time Ubuntu user, I’ve worked to make sure that Debian and Ubuntu are first-class citizens in the Gluster Community. This is not without its challenges – most Gluster developers live in the Fedora/CentOS/RHEL hemisphere, and the GlusterFS version available in Ubuntu is a rather old 3.
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The Gluster Community would like to congratulate the OpenStack Foundation and developers on the Havana release. With performance-boosting enhancements for OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder), Compute (Nova) and Image Service (Glance), as well as a native template language for OpenStack Orchestration (Heat), the OpenStack Havana release points the way to continued
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tl;dr - This is a long description designed to elicit constructive discussion of some recent Gluster Community governance initiatives. For all things related to Gluster Community Governance, see gluster.org/Governance The recent initiatives around GlusterFS development and project governance have been quite amazing to witness – we have been
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If you’ve been watching the Gluster Community Day Meetup.com page, you’ve noticed lots of activity lately. That’s because we are planning several of these around the world, in addition to a few others we’ve already run this year. What is a ‘Gluster Community Day?’ It’
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Several talks related to the Gluster Community have been proposed for the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong in November. You have to vote for your favorites so that we can be sure to get on the program. Remember to vote early and often! Proposed Talks: Shared Storage: Data Availability Across
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(NOTE: if you’re interested in contributing or presenting at the community day, add your ideas in the comments) The Summer of Gluster continues! We’re happy to announce a Community Day for San Francisco on Tuesday, August 27 at Rackspace’s SOMA office in San Francisco. RSVP here. Thanks