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Gluster Monthly Newsletter, April 2018

Amye Scavarda
2018-05-07

Announcing mountpoint, August 27-28, 2018

Our inaugural software-defined storage conference combining Gluster, Ceph and other projects! More details at:

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-May/034039.html

CFP at: http://mountpoint.io/

 

Out of cycle updates for all maintained Gluster versions: New updates for 3.10, 3.12 and 4.0

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/announce/2018-April/000098.html

 

Project Technical Leadership Council Announced

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/announce/2018-April/000094.html

 

Gluster and Red Hat Summit:

Gluster’s pairing with oVirt in Community Central – come by!

 

Talks: (links to recordings provided in May newsletter)

Gluster Colonizer with Ansible: A hands-on workshop: https://agenda.summit.redhat.com/SessionDetail.aspx?id=154077

Container-native storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage roadmap: https://agenda.summit.redhat.com/SessionDetail.aspx?id=153766

Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Your open hyperconverged solution

https://agenda.summit.redhat.com/SessionDetail.aspx?id=153974

 

Red Hat Summit: Community Happy Hour

Tuesday, May 8, 2018 (6:30pm – 7:30pm)

https://rhsummithappyhour.eventbrite.com/

 

Want swag for your meetup? https://www.gluster.org/events/ has a contact form for us to let us know about your Gluster meetup! We’d love to hear about Gluster presentations coming up, conference talks and gatherings. Let us know!

 

Top Contributing Companies:  Red Hat, Comcast, DataLab, Gentoo Linux, Facebook, BioDec, Samsung

Top Contributors in April: Nigel Babu, Nithya Balachandran, Shyamsundar Ranganathan, Xavi Hernandez, Kotresh HR, Pranith Kumar Karampuri

 

Noteworthy threads:

[Gluster-users] Proposal to make Design Spec and Document for a feature mandatory.

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-April/033799.html

[Gluster-users] Gluster’s proposal to adopt GPL cure enforcement http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-April/033954.html   

[Gluster-devel] tendrl-release v1.6.3 (milestone-5 2018) is available

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-April/054755.html

 

Upcoming CFPs:

Mountpoint:

CFP closes June 15th

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