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<div>Piet,</div>
<div>I’m not comfortable saying much more because I don’t want to raise expectations just yet. We need to gauge interest and get some idea of headcount. Reaching out to other groups to sponsor is a great idea. I’ll keep you posted.</div>
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<div>On Apr 4, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Kruithof, Piet <<a href="mailto:pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com">pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(123, 123, 123);">I really like the idea of a OpenStack UX gathering. It would be useful to have the time to focus on both tactical and strategic UX activities for the community. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(123, 123, 123);">Any ideas on when you have more information? You may want to see if any other groups are interested in acting as sponsors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jacki Bauer [<a href="mailto:jacki.bauer@RACKSPACE.COM" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">mailto:jacki.bauer@RACKSPACE.COM</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, April 04, 2014 7:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sriram Subramanian<br>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Openstack-personas] Meeting to sort through interview data<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sponsorship is a possibility, though probably not for this effort since it’s kind of last minute. <o:p></o:p></div>
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FYI, Rackspace is looking into the possibility of hosting an OpenStack UX gathering in between the OpenStack summits this year, so August-ish. The more involved you are with UX related activities, the better the chance Rackspace or another company would sponsor
you!<o:p></o:p></div>
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On Apr 3, 2014, at 5:19 PM, Sriram Subramanian <<a href="mailto:sriram@sriramhere.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">sriram@sriramhere.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I see how valuable this could be.<br>
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Any chances of big companies sponsoring independent players like me? Who can help me on that?<br>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:jacki.bauer@RACKSPACE.COM" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">Jacki
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Sent:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">4/3/2014 2:30 PM</span><br>
<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:Melissa.Meingast@hp.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">Meingast,
Melissa</a></span><br>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Re: [Openstack-personas] Meeting to sort through interview data</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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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>
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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>
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On Apr 3, 2014, at 4:16 PM, Meingast, Melissa <<a href="mailto:Melissa.Meingast@hp.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">Melissa.Meingast@hp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 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>
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> On Apr 3, 2014, at 3:39 PM, "Kruithof, Piet" <<a href="mailto:pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com</a><<a href="mailto:pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">mailto:pieter.c.kruithof-jr@hp.com</a>>>
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> 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>
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> 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>
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