oVirt June/July 2014 Updates

[Brian Proffitt]

Summertime, and the livin' is easy... but the oVirt community has still been staying busy! Here's the latest community news from June and July as we ramp up for more events in August and beyond.

What's New?

   * Brussels Airport Case Study posted by Brian Proffitt
     http://www.ovirt.org/Brussels_Airport_Case_Study

   * Vojtech Szocs rolled out the new oVirt.js prototype with a sample GWT wrapper
     http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/007698.html
     http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/007701.html
     http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/007826.html

   * oVirt brings order to Illinois county courts
     http://www.ovirt.org/Judici_Case_Study 

   * Community project ManageIQ was officially open sourced, with instructions on how
     to use with oVirt
     http://manageiq.org/download/ovirt/

   * A new RubyGems plugin monitors oVirt provisions for new hosts and performs related
     API calls to ovirt-engine.
     http://rubygems.org/gems/ovirt_provision_plugin

   * Francesco Romani worked on reducing the number of threads in VDSM.
     http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/007808.html

   * Christophe Fergeau continued his work on foreign menu patches in oVirt.
     http://www.marshut.net/iyzmhu/ovirt-foreign-menu-support.html

   * The oVirt 3.4.3 RC was released on July 10.
     http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.3_Release_Notes

   * Daniel Erez posted an oVirt Engine prototype Docker container in the official
     Docker registry.
     https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/danielerez/ovirt-engine/

   * Mad Man Allon Mureinik got an oVirt ad running on StackOverflow
     http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/260377/open-source-advertising-sidebar-2h-2014/261094#261094

   * OriginStack produced a video on oVirt/OPenStack network integration with Neutron
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wikIIH8tLTc

   * The first two Test Days for oVirt 3.5 helped us make progress toward the next release
     http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_TestDay

   * Michal Skrivanek contributed a quick peek at the new live migration progress bar
     coming in oVirt 3.5.
     http://youtu.be/XapIZYPaRBg


* Events and Activities

   * Kiril Nesenko educated Jenkins User Conference attendees on how to manage oVirt
     infrastructure with Jenkins
     http://lanyrd.com/2014/jenkinsconf-israel/sdbqzc/

   * Rizwan Ashraf is seeking fellow oVirt users in the Bay Area for a usergroup or meetup!
     http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025981.html

   * oVirt will join other community projects to present at Infrastructure.Next in
     Chicago on Aug. 20.

   * Join Yaniv Bronheim as he speaks at LinuxCon on Aug. 21 about Integrating oVirt
     and Foreman to Empower your Data-Center
     http://sched.co/1jQmiuw

   * Visit Red Hat Israel's offices for the first-ever DevOps at Red Hat meetup on Aug 26.
     http://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Israel/events/195812602/

   * oVirt will be one of many community projects represented at Fossetcon in Orlando Sep. 11-13.

   * The next oVirt workshop to be co-located on October 16 with KVM Forum Oct. 14-16, 2014

     How to install oVirt. Room 41D pic.twitter.com/jvBCEdFzH2

   * René Koch reports on oVirt open source events in Austria
     http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-May/024190.html


* Recent Posts

   * Alissa Bonas published Getting the Most Out of Your Open Source Project
     Website
     http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/06/12/getting-the-most-out-of-your-open-source-project-website/

   * Douglas Landsgraf walked users through generating an oVirt Node ISO with modified packages
     http://dougsland.livejournal.com/123418.html

   * Fabian Deutsch introduced the all-new oVirt Engine Virtual Appliance
     http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/88944206100/say-hello-to-the-ovirt-engine-virtual-appliance

   * oVirt's July update included a sneak peek at oVirt 3.5.
     http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/07/ovirt-community-update-july-2014/

   * Maor Lipchuk updated the community on oVirt's Google Summer of Code programs.
     http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/07/ovirt-google-summer-of-code-update/

   * Amador Pahim explained how to add QEMU discard support to oVirt
     http://apahim.livejournal.com/2294.html


-- 
Brian Proffitt

oVirt Community Manager
Project Atomic Community Lead
Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com
Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP
IRC: bkp @ OFTC