<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hi. I'm in the same boat as Liz and likely can't do anything in person but can certainly participate remotely if that's a possibility.</div><div><br></div><div>Do keep us posted.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ju</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Liz Blanchard" <lsurette@redhat.com><br><b>To: </b>"Sriram Subramanian" <sriram@sriramhere.com><br><b>Cc: </b>openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, April 4, 2014 8:49:12 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Openstack-personas] Meeting to sort through interview data<br><div><br></div>Hi All,<div><br></div><div>I definitely see this being valuable to meet in person as well. I am hoping there will be a way that remote folks can participate as well since I’ll be attending the Red Hat summit in a week and most likely won’t be able to get another trip in between that and OpenStack summit :( </div><div><br></div><div>Let me know!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Liz<br><div><div>On Apr 3, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Sriram Subramanian <<a href="mailto:sriram@sriramhere.com" target="_blank">sriram@sriramhere.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">I see how valuable this could be.<br><div><br></div>Any chances of big companies sponsoring independent players like me? Who can help me on that?<br><div><br></div>Thanks,<br>Sriram </div></div>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jacki.bauer@RACKSPACE.COM" target="_blank">Jacki Bauer</a></span><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">4/3/2014 2:30 PM</span><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:Melissa.Meingast@hp.com" target="_blank">Meingast, Melissa</a></span><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org</a></span><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject: </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">Re: [Openstack-personas] Meeting to sort through interview data</span><br><div><br></div></div>I second. This is a hands on activity requiring post-its and in-depth conversations. If we had a couple days we could also work on summit preparation in general.<br><div><br></div>Rackspace is happy to host. For people not within driving distance (I don’t consider Colorado driving distance), can you ask your managers if they’d reimburse travel expenses? I'll see what Rackspace can do - I’m sure at the very least they’ll feed us :)<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div>On Apr 3, 2014, at 4:16 PM, Meingast, Melissa <<a href="mailto:Melissa.Meingast@hp.com" target="_blank">Melissa.Meingast@hp.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br></div>> I think that's a really good idea. I think there is significant benefit in doing this sort of thing in person, in terms of the end product.<br>> <br>> On Apr 3, 2014, at 3:39 PM, "Kruithof, Piet" <<a href="mailto:pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com" target="_blank">pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com</a><<a href="mailto:pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com" target="_blank">mailto:pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com</a>>> wrote:<br>> <br>> I wanted to suggest that we meet as team to sort through the data being collected from the interviews to assign meaning to them and eventually form personas. It seems as though Austin makes the most sense because it’s driving distance from folks from Dell, HP and RackSpace. Also, there is a strong tech community in Austin, so we would be able to invite other stakeholders to attend the sessions assuming that the have experience with the cloud.<br>> <br>> I understand that there is a desire to do this kind of activity virtually, but my intuition is that the quality of the deliverables will be better if we have everyone in a room together.<br>> <br>> Thoughts?<br>> <br>> <br>> Pieter Kruithof, MS, CPE<br>> UX Design and Research Lead<br>> Cloud OS<br>> <br>> <a href="mailto:pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com" target="_blank">pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com</a><<a href="mailto:pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com" target="_blank">mailto:pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com</a>><br>> T +1 970 8981918<br>> M +1 512 5762844<br>> <br>> "If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.”<br>> Dr. Ralf Speth, CEO Jaguar<br>> <br>> Hewlett-Packard Company<br>> 3404 E Harmony Rd.<br>> FTC06<br>> Fort Collins, CO 80528-9544<br>> USA<br>> <br>> [HP]<<a href="http://www.hp.com/" target="_blank">http://www.hp.com/</a>><br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> openstack-personas mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org</a><<a href="mailto:openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">mailto:openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org</a>><br>> <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-personas" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-personas</a><br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> openstack-personas mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-personas" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-personas</a><br><div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>openstack-personas mailing list<br><a href="mailto:openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org</a><br>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-personas<br></div>_______________________________________________<br>openstack-personas mailing list<br><a href="mailto:openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org</a><br>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-personas<br></blockquote></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>openstack-personas mailing list<br>openstack-personas@lists.openstack.org<br>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-personas<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>