<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>Partners:</div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div><br></div><div>As you are aware, we recently held our OpenStack Conference and Design Summit event in Santa Clara, CA with close to 500 attendees and over 130 sessions in four days. This was the first OpenStack event with sponsorship opportunities and I want to thank those companies that sponsored the event and also follow-up with the OpenStack ecosystem partner community with some lessons learned from that event related to sponsors:</div><ul><li>1 master public list of sponsors with their deliverables </li><li>Establish clear deadlines for deliverables with specific requirements </li><li>Deliver requirements to sponsors in a timely manner -> leverage a master public location with all requirements and guidelines for sponsors to simplify information access for sponsors</li><li>Add track sponsorship as a new deliverable (Dell sponsorship of Service Provider Track was well received)</li><li>Limit number of sponsors getting a confirmed session in the event </li></ul><div>If you have other ideas about sponsorship for future OpenStack events, please contact me directly as I am starting work on the October OpenStack event targeted for October 3-6, 2011 in Boston or New York. We plan to run the OpenStack Design Summit from October 3-5 and the OpenStack Conference from October 5-6 which is the opposite of what we have done for the last two events. </div><div><br></div><div>Full conference review at <a href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/OpenStack-Design-Summit-2011-Review1.pdf">http://www.openstack.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/OpenStack-Design-Summit-2011-Review1.pdf</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div><div>- - - </div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Stephen Spector, Rackspace</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">OpenStack Community Manager</span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"></span></font></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><a href="mailto:stephen.spector@openstack.org">stephen.spector@openstack.org</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><a href="http://openstack.org/blog">OpenStack Blog</a><b> | </b><a href="http://twitter.com/opnstk_com_mgr">@opnstk_</a><a href="http://twitter.com/opnstk_com_mgr">com</a><a href="http://twitter.com/opnstk_com_mgr">_mgr</a><span style="font-style: italic"></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><b>Office</b> +1 (512) 539-1162 | <b>Mobile</b> +1 (210) 415-0930</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></body></html>