The book is intended to provide an introduction to the OpenStack project (Glance, Swift and Nova) “Cactus” release, an architectural overview of each component and some best practices for their deployment. Here are the chapter listings:

• The OpenStack Project
• Understanding Swift
• Understanding Glance
• Understanding Nova
• Obtaining Nova
• Planning Nova Deployment
• Installing Nova
• Using Nova
• Administering Nova

However, this book is not “OpenStack: The Definitive Guide” or any such tome:

• It is a relatively short 80 pages.
• It is also very heavily weighted towards Nova. That is not to say that Swift or Glance aren’t covered, it is just not to the same level of detail. For example, Swift installation is not covered, while an entire chapter is devoted to Nova’s installation.
• It only documents a single node installation in two controlled ways. It doesn’t cover every hardware variation or deployment scenario.

If you are interested in this book, I would recommend getting the Ebook version. It is cheaper, it comes in almost any format (ePub, Mobi, PDF) and it will be updated.  You will see additional content come out for it, as it is written. For anyone that has been following the OpenStack community, you will realize that the code changes quickly.

For folks that want to test this, you can run the following to get the update:

su -c ‘yum –enablerepo=updates-testing update empathy’

And after testing, if you would be so kind to leave karma or comments in bodhi it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/empathy-2.32.0.1-3.fc14

Nominations:

* Dan Horák (sharkcz)
* Dominik Mierzejewski (rathann)
* Jarod Wilson (jwilson)
* Jon Stanley (jds2001)
* Josh Boyer (jwb)

Outcomes:

As defined in the election text, the four (4) candidate(s) with the
greatest number of votes will be elected for a full, 2 release term.

Information:

At close of voting there were:
169 valid ballots

Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of
845 votes (5*169).

Results:

1. Josh Boyer (jwb)            489
2. Dan Horák (sharkcz)            485
3. Jarod Wilson (jwilson)        485
4. Jon Stanley (jds2001)        453
*****
5. Dominik Mierzejewski (rathann)    396

As such, Josh Boyer, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson and Jon Stanley are elected to FESCo for a 2 release term as of January 7, 2009.

Btw, I would like to thank Matt Domsch and Nigel Jones for all the work they did in setting up and running this election.

The full GPG-signed information from our election coordinator, Nigel
Jones, including vote totals, is located here:
http://bpepple.fedorapeople.org/fesco_results/fescof10results.txt.asc

The first meeting for the new FESCo will be this Thursday at 17:00 UTC
in #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.org, where they will elect a new
chair, and decide on the time for future FESCo meetings.

(1) https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-July/msg00005.html

The voting system uses the range voting method:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting

Any Fedora Account System (FAS) account holder who has completed the
CLA, and has an addition account (like ambassadors, art, cvs*,
fedorabugs, l10n-commits, web, etc.) in the FAS is eligible to vote.
Voting is open until Monday, July 21st, 2008 23:59 UTC. Election
results will be announced shortly afterward.

The nominees for the nine open seats, in alphabetical order, are:
1. Josh Boyer
2. Steve Dickson
3. Kevin Fenzi
4. Dennis Gilmore
5. Karsten Hopp
6. Christian Iseli
7. Jon Masters
8. Bill Nottingham
9. Brian Pepple
10. Jon Stanley
11. Jarod Wilson
12. David Woodhouse

The nominees have also placed some summary information about their
background and goals on the wiki nominations page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SteeringCommittee/Nominations

These summaries are also available from the “Info” link next to each
candidate’s name in the voting system.

If you have any problems with voting, report them immediately in the
ticket system, at: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets
Use the “elections” category when you file your ticket so that it is
directed quickly to the appropriate parties.