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Planning an International Community Portal for OpenStack

Posted on 10 May, 2012 by Stef

With the large growth of OpenStack internationally comes the need to have a better system to list the international resources for new users of OpenStack. At the moment we have a couple of wiki pages, a mailing list for a … Continue reading →

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In search of a modern way to hold discussions online

Posted on 3 May, 2012 by Stef

The OpenStack community decided at the Design Summit to create new lists and consolidate all of them on a new service so I decided to lay down the specifications for the new system following the desiderata from developers and users. … Continue reading →

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Proud member of an effective community

Posted on 27 April, 2012 by Stef

In days like this I feel very lucky to be a member of the OpenStack community. The thread that started today demonstrates the great culture of collaboration among the people that make OpenStack. Following up on the discussion held at … Continue reading →

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Back from OpenStack Design Summit and Conference

Posted on 26 April, 2012 by Stef

What a week! We had over 1,000 participants from 26 countries (Japan and UK follow USA for total number of participants with Australia, Canada and South Korea in the next cluster), 159 sessions during the summit and 56 during the … Continue reading →

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You really want APIs designed by a community

Posted on 10 April, 2012 by Stef

I keep reading very strange things about OpenStack and its support for Amazon APIs. I believe it was generally acknowledged that APIs designed by one company were bad and that open API is really what you wanted. Today in Citrix … Continue reading →

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Il pianto greco gerontologico

Posted on 5 April, 2012 by Stef

Il nuovo pianto greco degli artisti che lamentano perdite inesistenti e accusano i motori di ricerca di rubargli guadagni. Sono i soliti lamenti già sentiti e già ampiamente sbugiardati da molto più esperti di me in materia. Una cosa mi … Continue reading →

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VMware is already legacy

Posted on 1 April, 2012 by Stef

I read lots of comments regarding the agreement between Eucalyptus and Amazon, all focusing on how that affects OpenStack. Some of the comments are plain wrong: let me remind that OpenStack has support for Amazon EC2 and S3 APIs, Canonical … Continue reading →

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Using Storify to assemble a newsletter

Posted on 30 March, 2012 by Stef

I was looking for a tool that would allow me to pull links, stories, tweets, pictures, videos from various sources on the web and aggregate them in a decent layout, suitable for a regular newsletter. I tried using Storify today. … Continue reading →

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The abyss between Apple and its competitors

Posted on 23 February, 2012 by Stef

I started chatting with my brother about corporate laptops and how ugly they generally are. He works for a large corporation that doesn’t offer any choice: he can get any computer he wants provided it’s black and runs Windows. Poor … Continue reading →

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The problem with patents in graphic form

Posted on 6 January, 2012 by Stef

Cool infographic inspired by NPR report at This American Life by Frugal Dad. Source: http://frugaldad.com Tweet

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