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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hey everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I am hoping to get a dialogue started to gain some insight around things Operators, Application Developers, and End Users would like to see happen in Pike. If you had a dedicated environment, dedicated team, and freedom to choose how you deployed, new features, older features, enhancements, etc, and were not required to deal with customer/client tickets, calls, and maintenances, could keep a good feedback loop between your team and the upstream community of any project, what would like to make happen or work on hoping the next release of OpenStack had/included/changed/enhanced/removed…?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='margin-left:-5.4pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=940 style='width:705.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3A301D'>Melvin Hillsman<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width=940 style='width:705.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3A301D'>Ops Technical Lead<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3A301D'>OpenStack Innovation Center<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=927 style='width:695.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#535353'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=940 style='width:705.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><u><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000E9'><a href="mailto:mrhillsman@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>mrhillsman@gmail.com</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#535353'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#535353'>phone: (210) 312-1267<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#535353'>mobile: (210) 413-1659<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#535353'>Learner | Ideation | Belief | Responsibility | Command<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width=940 style='width:705.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><u><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#0000E9'><a href="http://osic.org"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://osic.org</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#535353'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>