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OpenStack Mitaka will Rise in the Land of the Rising Sun after Liberty

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jul 17, 2015

Ok, so the OpenStack Foundation stumbled a little with its first attempt at an ‘M’ name for the first OpenStack release of 2016. Originally chosen to be ‘Meiji’ that name turned out to be a political hot potato and so the Foundation went back to the polls and chose – Mitaka.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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