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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br>Hello OpenStack Community,

<div><br></div><div>Last week during the OpenStack Summit there was a lot of talk about interoperability (keynote: <a href="https://youtu.be/xgj9BA6qfIs?t=686" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://youtu.be/xgj9BA6qfIs?t=686</a> )<span style="font-size: 12pt;">. If you want to learn more, here are some reference materials on the DefCore committee and interop process:</span></div><div><br></div><div><div>    Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/DefCoreCommittee</div><div>    Wiki you can remember: https://wiki.openstack.org/DefCore</div><div>    OpenStack Interop guidelines and <span style="font-size: 12pt;">process for submitting test results</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: http://www.openstack.org/brand/interop/</span></div><div><div>    Current guidelines: </div><div>        https://github.com/openstack/defcore/blob/master/2015.05.json</div><div>        https://github.com/openstack/defcore/blob/master/2015.05.rst</div></div><div>    DefCore repository, all documents go through Gerrit process: https://github.com/openstack/defcore</div><div>    Process doc: https://github.com/openstack/defcore/blob/master/process/2015A.rst</div><div>    Rob's Book of blogs on DefCore, covers a lot of history and decision making: http://robhirschfeld.com/tag/defcore/</div><div>    Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/rhirschfeld/community-defcore-presentation</div><div>    Recorded presentation, DefCore community review: http://t.co/HqvvKPDa6L</div><div>    http://robhirschfeld.com/2014/05/01/defcore-capabilities-selection/</div><div>   </div><div> IRC: Join #openstack-defcore on Freenode IRC</div></div><div><br></div><div>If you are interested in being part of interop/defcore conversations, join the DefCore committee: <span style="font-size: 12pt;">bit.ly/DefCoreList </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. We will be setting a new cadence for our recurring meetings later this week.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Let us know if you if you have any questions.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thank you,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Egle Sigler, DefCore Committee Co-Chair</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div>                                    </div></body>
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