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Gluster Community Newsletter, May 2016

Gluster
2016-05-27

Important happenings for Gluster this month: 

We’re closing in on a 3.8 release, with release candidate 2 released on May 24th. (http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-May/049642.html)
Our 3.8 roadmap of features is available at:
https://www.gluster.org/community/roadmap/3.8/
Our current timeline is to have a release in June, so update your release notes!

Gluster Developers Summit:

October 6, 7 directly following LinuxCon Berlin
https://www.gluster.org/events/summit2016/

This is an invite-only event, but you can apply for an invitation. Deadline for application is July 31, 2016.
Apply for an invitation:
http://goo.gl/forms/JOEzoimW9qVV4jdz1

Gluster.org events page:

Instead of having just a publicpad, we now have an area on the website where oyu can add upcoming talks, meetups and other events.
https://www.gluster.org/events/
To contribute an event, submit a pull request to the glusterweb github account.
See something that should be moved over from the publicpad? Feel free to contribute!

Change in presentation tracking:

We have a new slideshare account to share Gluster-related presentations with.
Find everything that was previously in the documentation site over at the new slideshare account.
http://www.slideshare.net/GlusterCommunity/

We’ll be back next month with highlights from the 3.8 release, the gluster-users, gluster-devel and gluster-infra mailing lists.

Top 5 contributors:

Kaleb S. Keithley, Prasanna Kumar Kalever, Pranith Kumar K, Niels de Vos, Krutika Dhananjay

Upcoming CFPs:

LinuxCon Europe: (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe/program/cfp) June 17

 

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