<div dir="ltr">Can you share a refresher on the Summit speaker submission review/approval process and how voting will work?<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Matt</div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Tom Fifield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@openstack.org" target="_blank">tom@openstack.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px"><b><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">The Call for Speakers
is OPEN for the November OpenStack Summit in Paris! </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Submit your talks here: </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/call-for-speakers/" target="_blank">https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/call-for-speakers/</a></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">.</span></b></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">There are a few new
speaking tracks in the Summit lineup this year so please review
the below list before you submit a talk. </span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Don't wait! <u>The Call
for Speakers will close on July 28 at 11:59pm CDT.</u></span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">The Summit will take
place in Paris at Le Palais des Congrès, November 3-7. The main
conference and expo will run Monday - Wednesday and the design
summit will run Tuesday - Friday. Continue to visit <a href="http://openstack.org/summit" target="_blank">openstack.org/summit</a></span> for
information including: event format, registration, hotel room
blocks, visa letters, etc.</div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">If you have any Summit
related questions please email <a href="mailto:events@openstack.org" target="_blank">events@openstack.org</a>.</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Cheers,</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Claire</span></div>
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<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><u>Proposed Speaking
Tracks for the OpenStack Summit in Paris:</u></span></div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Enterprise
IT Strategies</b></span></li>
</ul>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Enterprise
IT leaders building their cloud business case are facing
unique requirements to manage legacy applications, new
software development and shadow IT within industry
regulations and business constraints. In this track, we'll
discuss how OpenStack is meeting enterprise IT technical
requirements and cover topics relevant to planning your
cloud strategy, including culture change, cost management,
vendor strategy and recruiting.</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Telco
Strategies</b></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Telecommunications
companies are one of the largest areas of growth for
OpenStack around the world. In this track, we'll feature
content relevant to these users, addressing the evolution of
the network and emerging NFV architecture, the global IaaS
market and role of telcos, industry regulation and data
sovereignty, and industry cooperation around
interoperability and federation. </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>How
to Contribute</b></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">The
How to Contribute track is for new community members and
companies interested in contributing to the open source
code, with a focus on OpenStack community processes, tools,
culture and best practices. </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Planning
Your OpenStack Project</b></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">If
you are new to OpenStack or just getting started planning
your cloud strategy, this track will cover the basics for
you to evaluate the technology, understand the different
ways to consume OpenStack, review popular use cases and
determine your path forward.</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Products,
Tools & Services</b></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"> </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">OpenStack's
vibrant ecosystem and the different ways to consume it are
among it's greatest strengths. In this track, you'll hear
about the latest products, tools and services from the
OpenStack ecosystem. </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>User
Stories</b></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Sharing
knowledge is a core value for the OpenStack community. In
the user stories track, you'll hear directly from
enterprises, service providers and application developers
who are using OpenStack to address their business problems.
Learn best practices, challenges and recommendations
directly from your industry peers. </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Community
Building</b></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">OpenStack
is a large, diverse community with more than 75 user groups
around the world. In the community building track, user
group leaders will share their experiences growing and
maturing their local groups, community leaders will discuss
new tools and metrics, and we'll shine a spotlight on end
user and contributing organizations who have experienced a
significant internal culture change as participants of the
OpenStack community.</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Related
OSS Projects</b></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">There
is a rich ecosystem of open source projects that sit on top
of, plug into or support the OpenStack cloud software. In
this track, we'll demonstrate the capabilities and preview
the roadmaps for open source projects relevant to OpenStack.
This presentation track is separate from the open source
project working sessions, which allow the contributors to
those projects to gather and discuss features and
requirements relevant to their integration with OpenStack. A
separate application for those working sessions will be
announced.</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Operations</b></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">The
Operations track is 100% focused on what it takes to run a
production OpenStack cloud. Every presenter has put endless
coffee-fueled hours into making services scale robustly,
never go down, and automating, automating, automating. The
track will cover efficient use of existing tools, managing
upgrades and staying up-to-date with one of the world's
fastest-moving code bases and "Architecture show and tell,"
where established clouds will lead a discussion around their
architecture. If you're already running a cloud, you should
also join us in the </span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><i>Ops Summit</i></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"> for some serious working sessions (no
basic intros here) on making the OpenStack software and ops
tools for it better.</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Cloud
Security</b></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"> </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">The
Security track will feature technical presentations, design
and implementation disussions relevant to cloud security and
OpenStack. </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Compute</b></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"> </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Computing
is a broad topic, but this track will offer technical
presentations, use cases, and design and implementation
specific to the OpenStack Compute project. Topics will
include new features, integration with tools and
technologies and configuration as well as hypervisors, HA,
schedulers, bare metal computing and databases.</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Cloud
Storage</b></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"> </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px">
<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">The
Storage track will feature technical presentations, use
cases, design and implementation discussions relevant to
cloud storage and OpenStack.</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px">
<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Cloud
Networking</b></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"> </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px">
<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">The
Networking track will feature technical presentations, use
cases, design and implementation discussions relevant to
cloud networking, specifically topics like SDN, scale, IPv6,
policies, HA and performance.</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px">
<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Public
& hybrid clouds</b></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"> </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px">
<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">The
public and hybrid clouds track will cover issues and
considerations unique to organizations who are making use of
public or hybrid cloud infrastrucutre, or are considering
this approach. </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px">
<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Hands-On
Labs (90 minutes)</b></span><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"> </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="padding-right:1px;line-height:17px">
<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">Hands-on
Labs offers a window into OpenStack training for operators
and application developers. Sessions are typically 90
minutes and set classroom style for interaction. Bring your
laptop and walk away with OpenStack skills. </span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 1.5em">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>Targeting
Apps for OpenStack Clouds</b></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 3em;list-style-type:circle">
<li style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px">A
large community of application developers and ecosystem of
development tools is growing around OpenStack. This track
will be for users who are building and deploying
applications on OpenStack clouds, and cover topics like
automating and managing application deployment, application
software configuration, SDKs, tools, PaaS and big data.</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
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