<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-magicdomid109" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-author-a-bz80zz87zz66zz68zz70ztvz69zagu7r8j" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" style="">Hi Forum Brainstormers,</font></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid110" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></font></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid111" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-author-a-bz80zz87zz66zz68zz70ztvz69zagu7r8j" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Wow! Some great topics in the etherpads so far. This event is going to be amazing.</font></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid112" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></font></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid113" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-author-a-bz80zz87zz66zz68zz70ztvz69zagu7r8j" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">We're less than a week away now from opening the "formal submission" part of the process.</font></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid114" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></font></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid115" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span class="gmail-author-a-bz80zz87zz66zz68zz70ztvz69zagu7r8j" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" style=""><font face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">If you haven't already, please start prioritizing the top sessions from your list of ideas. Starting next week, the formal submission will ask for a written abstract, and one or more session leaders for each session you want to submit.</span></font></font></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid116" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></font></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid117" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-author-a-bz80zz87zz66zz68zz70ztvz69zagu7r8j" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Late to the party? Check out the topic brainstorming at:</font></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid119" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-author-a-bz80zz87zz66zz68zz70ztvz69zagu7r8j gmail-url" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum/Sydney2017" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000"><b>https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum/Sydney2017</b></font></a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid120" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></font></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid121" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-author-a-bz80zz87zz66zz68zz70ztvz69zagu7r8j" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">and on a mailing list near you!</font></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid122" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></font></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid123" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span class="gmail-author-a-bz80zz87zz66zz68zz70ztvz69zagu7r8j" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Thanks,</font></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid124" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">User Committee/Technical Committee</div>
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