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</head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Hi Hongbin,<br>
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Please see below for some general notes...<br>
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<span>Hongbin Lu wrote:</span><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon,
Aug 13, 2018 at 9:53 AM Jimmy McArthur <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jimmy@openstack.org" target="_blank">jimmy@openstack.org</a>>
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<font color="#777777" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial,
Verdana, sans-serif"><span></span></font>Greetings!<br>
<br>
The speakers for the OpenStack Summit Berlin will be announced <span
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style="display:inline;font-size:inherit;padding:0pt">August
14, at 4:00 AM UTC</span>. Ahead of that, we want to take this
opportunity to
thank our Programming Committee! They have once again taken time out
of their busy schedules to help create another round of outstanding
content for the OpenStack Summit. <br>
<br>
The OpenStack Foundation relies on the community-nominated Programming
Committee, along with your Community Votes to select the content of the
summit. If you're curious about this process, you can <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/berlin-2018/call-for-presentations/selection-process"
target="_blank">read
more about it here</a> where we have also listed the Programming
Committee
members. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi, I particularly
want to know the process of selecting Programming Committee of each
track. You mentioned that the Programming Committee is
"community-nominated" but there is no information about how to select
among the list of "community-nominated" candidates. If there are
multiple candidates self-nominating themselves, how to ensure the
process of selecting Programming Committee members is fair and
transparent?</div></div></div>
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We announce public track chair nominations, but it's true that we
haven't published the nominees in the past. Moving forward, we'll
publish those to the MLs. <br>
<br>
We do publish the selected track chairs as we <a
href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/berlin-2018/call-for-presentations/selection-process">did
this year for Berlin</a>. These are selected from a pool of volunteers
(self-nominated or otherwise) and, for the most part, we do not have a
large pool of people to choose from. Programming Committee work can be a
bit arduous and that's why we're so thankful for the hard work our
volunteers put in each Summit. We literally couldn't do it without
them.<br>
<br>
If you feel you could help with the process, I encourage you to
volunteer for the Denver 2019 Summit Programming Committee: <font
color="#777777" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana,
sans-serif"><span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/openstackdenver2019_programmingcommitteenom"
target="_blank">https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/openstackdenver2019_programmingcommitteenom</a></span></font>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>I asked that because I
have an impression that the selection of Programming Committee members
has a significant impact on the final selected content of the summit,
and the final selected content has impacts on the visibility of each
OpenStack official project. It also appears that if a specific project
is not well represented on its relevant track of the Programming
Committee, none of the project-related talks was selected. I would
wonder if the selection process is fair and give visibility of each
official proj</div></div>
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Every project at the summit has the opportunity to submit both a Project
Update and a Project Onboarding session, outside of the CFP. If an
community project wants that space, it's guaranteed. In addition to the
CFP, the Forum presents an additional opportunity for projects to speak
to the community. <br>
<br>
On top of that, we encourage diversity in selection of all presentations
for the CFP. Including but not limited to diversity in corporate,
gender, project, etc... Beyond that, our track chairs have the
discretion to select the best content from a field of high quality
submissions. <br>
<br>
Finally, if you feel a project is underrepresented in the community, we
strongly encourage you to reach out to local user groups and to present
your content there:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/user_group_presentation_form">https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/user_group_presentation_form</a>
This is both a great for community outreach and an opportunity to help
gain support for a project, SIG, etc...<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Jimmy<br>
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If you'd like to nominate yourself or someone you know for the OpenStack
Summit Denver Programming Committee, you can do so here: <font
color="#777777" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana,
sans-serif"><b><br>
</b><span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/openstackdenver2019_programmingcommitteenom"
target="_blank">https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/openstackdenver2019_programmingcommitteenom</a></span></font><br>
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Thanks a bunch and we look forward to seeing everyone in Berlin!<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Jimmy<br>
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