Understanding the release cycle, making your first contributions count and considering the culture will go a long way.

“We’re not going to beat the competition by raising more money or being smarter than they are,” Anderson said at the Linux Collaboration Summit. “We’ll do it by being more open.”

“We’re at the very beginning,” says Chris Wright of Red Hat. There are “cool components” galore, but also more than a few “pain points.”

The free meetup, held March 9-10 in Philadelphia, is a chance for operators to share best practices and give feedback.

How to draw an owl, a pitch for “Liberty” T-shirts and the potential of Panelist-as-a-Service in this week’s round-up of what’s going on in the OpenStack community…

The simplified markup of the new design will make it easier to use and contribute documentation.

Liberty as in free beer or free software? Neither. The next release is named after a small Canadian town.