The second issue of "Ceph Quarterly" is attached to this email. Ceph Quarterly (or "CQ") is an overview of the past three months of upstream Ceph development. We provide CQ in three formats: A4, letter, and plain text wrapped at 80 columns. Two news items arrived after the deadline for typesetting this issue. They are included here: Grace Hopper Open Source Day 2023: - On 22 Sep 2023, Ceph participated in Grace Hopper Open Source Day, an all-day hackathon for women and nonbinary developers. Laura Flores led the Ceph division, and Yaarit Hatuka, Shreyansh Sancheti,and Aishwarya Mathuria participated as mentors. From 12pm EST to 7:30pm EST, Laura showed more than 40 attendees how to run a Ceph vstart cluster in an Ubuntu Docker container. Yaarit, Shreyansh,and Aishwarya spent the day working one-on-one with attendees, helping them troubleshoot and work through a curated list of low-hanging-fruit issues. By the day's end, Grace Hopper attendees submitted eight pull requests. As of the publication of this sentence, two have been merged and the others are expected to be merged soon. - For more information about GHC Open Source Day, see https://ghc.anitab.org/awards-programs/open-source-day/ Ceph partners with RCOS: - Ceph has partnered for the first time with the Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS), an organization at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that helps students jumpstart their careers in software by giving them the opportunity to work on various open source projects for class credit. - Laura Flores, representing Ceph, is mentoring three RPI students on a project to improve the output of the `ceph balancer status` command. - For more information about RCOS, see https://rcos.io/ Zac Dover Upstream DocumentationCeph Foundation