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OpenStack is the platform upon which Rackspace has built its open cloud. The community-driven cloud operating system, which Rackspace co-founded, has sparked an open source cloud revolution. Enabling the community of hundreds of developers to contribute code and leverage the OpenStack cloud however they want has created a shift in how applications are developed. This blog series collects insight straight from key developers on the front lines about how they became involved in OpenStack and the open cloud, and what contributions they’ve made.

Apache Libcloud is an open-source Python client library that creates a standard interface for managing multiple cloud providers, including Rackspace.

Disclaimer: If you already know Python really well, this post might not be handy for you. However, I’d still love to see your comments and feedback if you have a moment to reply.

The post originally appeared on Major’s blog, Racker Hacker, and with his permission we have reposted it here.

Tomaz Muraus, a Rackspace developer, is the project chair and developer/committer to Libcloud.

I wrote on the RackLabs blog over the weekend about our first Rackspace Developers Conference and I thought I’d post a pointer to it here on the Rackspace blog too. To make a long story short, we held a big conference here in San Antonio last week for all of the Rackers who develop software here at Rackspace. We’re thinking next time we’d like to invite some of our customers. Does this sound like something you’d be interested in attending?

We went to Chicago for PyCon 2008 last week. So, “what’s PyCon?” you might ask. PyCon is a conference for the Python community. And no, it has nothing to do with folks who keep snakes as pets.