[Users] oVirt updates - July 16th 2013

[Itamar Heim]

(some updates I collected from past weeks)

General:
- oVirt 3.3 feature freeze is upon us - a great version with many
   features! looking forward for people joining the test day next week

- new mailing list for users in Português
   http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users-pt

Past Conferences:
- oVirt Shanghai (Intel) workshop videos published
   http://software.intel.com/zh-cn/2013_Intel_oVirt_Workshop

- FISL14 oVirt was a success - thanks to all who helped!
   http://dougsland.livejournal.com/122744.html
   and (Português)
 
http://mr-marcelo-barbosa.tumblr.com/post/54945916221/fisl14-apresentando-o-ovirt

Upcoming conferences:
- Alterway, Wednesday 17th July - oVirt: principles and demo (french)
   http://moonbar.org/reader/event_20130702_074742_813902

- August Pinguin (Israel) will have an intro to oVirt session
   http://august.penguin.org.il/

- LinuxCon/CloudOpen NA will have an oVirt SLA session (more details to
   come)

- LinuxCon/CloudOpen Europe, KVM Forum CFPs are open and oVirt
   developer days in planning

Upcoming:
- Ubuntu and SUSE guest OSs will be added to oVirt
   http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/16680/

- Power PC engine patches arrived
   http://alturl.com/fxpg5

Devel/integration:

- Gluster 3.4 was released (good timing for cleaning up the vdsm
   dependnecy for oVirt 3.3)

- libgovirt 0.2.0 was released by Christophe Fergeau
   http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-July/015098.html

- Gianluca Cecchi reported oVirt works with samba (ad compatibility)
   http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-June/015030.html

- spice mime launcher for mac (OS X)
   https://github.com/brianwcook/launchvv

- oVirt Python SDK review (Português)
   http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/br/local/linux/ovirt_python_sdk/

Other:
- ZENOSS webinar on oVirt (rhev) monitoring
 
http://www.zenoss.com/in/wb_monitoring_red_hat_enterprise_virtualization.html