Austin Stackers!  This Thursday is our April meetup at the Austin TechRanch.

Please RSVP so that we know how much food to get!  SUSE is this Month’s sponsor for food and my team at Dell continues to pickup the room rental.  We have 35 RSVPs as of Monday noon – this will be another popular meeting (last meeting minutes).

Topics for the meetup are:

• Review the poll of our priorities for the Summit.  Please VOTE – only 10 of us have spoken so far.  The four leading topics are Stability vs Features, API vs Code, Documentation and Operations Focus.
• Talk about the Essex release and what made it in  (my team already has the Crowbar Essex deploy entering beta!).
• Demo of using DevStack to test and develop on OpenStack.
• I suspect we’ll also talk about CloudStack.

With the Summit next week, I think it is very important that we pre-discuss Summit topics and priorities as a community.  It will help us be more productive individually and for our collective interests when we engage the larger community next week.