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This is a LONG email - but please FULLY READ IT BEFORE YOU GET STARTED!

Hi everyone,

Thank you again for volunteering to serve as a Track Chair for the May OpenStack Summit in Vancouver!

We again received over 1,000 speaking submissions for the Summit. OpenStack community members have cast their votes so now it's your turn to select which of the submissions will ultimtely make it into the final Summit schedule. 

As always, venue space comes at a premium, therefore we only have a limited quantity of rooms to dedicate for breakout sessions. You can see a high-level draft view of the breakout schedule and quantity of session slots per track here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VHeTsRIEPv14OWf29m3EjeeK3ZM5hiIQc2GRf0wAsKE/edit?usp=sharing>. (Please note that this schedule is subject to change!) With so many great submissions to choose from we understand that it's going to be difficult for you to make your selections - but we trust your judgement. If you have any questions along the way please do not hesitate to email the track chair mailing list or summit at openstack.org.

NOW IT'S TIME TO GET STARTED!
Between now and March 11 at 23:00 UTC you will need to collaborate with your fellow track chairs to pick the very best sessions in your track.

To make your final selections please use our Track Chair tool: www.openstack.org/track-chairs/  Log in with your email address and the password that you've set for the OpenStack website. If you need to reset your password, you can do that here: https://www.openstack.org/Security/lostpassword. If you have any login issues please contact todd at openstack.org.

After logging in please watch the quick tutorial video before proceeding to do anything else: www.openstack.org/track-chairs/Tutorial

Once you've logged into the tool, you'll see:
1. All the presentations available for your Track
2. Your slections, your teammates individual selections, and the collective Team selections (once you make them)
3. A directory of all OpenStack Summit Track Chairs (you may also view the list in the etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Vancouver_Summit_Track_Chairs)
4. A tutorial video that shows you how to use the tool

Each presentation shows you how many total votes were cast, how many total points resulted the average vote score. Remember the choices displayed during voting? Here's how those options translated into points:
	• Would Love To See This! (3 Points)
	• Would Try To See (2 Points)
	• Might See This (1 Point)
	• Would Not See (-1 Point)
	• No Opinion (O Points)

CREATING YOUR PERSONAL LIST (ONE PER TEAM MEMBER)
The first step is for each track chair to build a personal list of presentations they’d like to see included in their track. To do this:

1. Log in using the account above
2. Browse through the presentations in your track
3. Click on any presentation for more details
4. In the blue header on the right side, click on “Add To My List”
5. To see and sort your list, click the “Selected Presentations Icon” on the left side menu bar. (You can see the presentations you’ve added and drag them up and down to sort them)

CREATING THE TEAM LIST (ONE PER TRACK)
After everyone has expressed their personal choices, everyone should discuss and debate the selections. Then, it’s up to at least one member of the team to create the final team list. This list registers the final selections for the team. To create the Team List:

1. Click on any presentation selected by another member (or find a presentation under Browse Presentations).
2. In the blue header on the right side, click on “Add To Team List”
3. To see and sort your team's list, click the “Selected Presentations Icon” on the left side menu bar. (The team list is the one on the far right. Again, you can drag them up and down to sort them.)

You and your colleagues can select as many presentations as you'd like. (Click on the presentation and press the blue "Select" button in the presentation details window.) Once your alloted spots are filled, additional presentations will be considered alternates. Under the Team Selections tab, you can drag and drop the presentations into your order of preference. Keep in mind that not all of the slots that you fill for your track are guaranteed to make it into the final agenda - the quantity of session slots for your track will depend on space allocation in the venue and other scheduling variables.  This is why it is very important that you stack rank your sessions in decending order. We'll consider the presentations at the top of the list to be the most important to include in the final Summit agenda.

Please note that when working with the Team Selections column, any changes that you make will override the previous selections / order choices that you or your colleages have previously made in this tab. Therefore, before making your final session selections inside the Team Selections tab - we recommend that you and your fellow track chairs use a collaborative etherpad or Google doc to line out your prefered track selections. This may make it easier to track decisions made as a team while you work to come to a consensus on the sessions that you ultimately select. Once you have finalized your selections as a team then add them into the Team Selections tab.

You may want to combine sessions into panels or other formats, especially if there are multiple submissions about the same topic. However we request that you try to limit the number of new panels to no more than 40% of the selected sessions in your track. You may also find a session that is more fitting for a different track. In this case, please click “Suggest Category Change" and indicate the new track for the presentation. The admins will review your suggestion and make the change as needed.

You have the ability to contact your fellow track chairs directly via their contact information or within the tool (by clicking on their name to send an email), but you may also make use of this mailing list to initiate or continue the discussion with all track chairs. 

REMINDERS:
1. Your ranking and alternates are important because some presenters may not be able to attend 
2. the deadline to rank presentations is March 11 at 23:00 UTC 
3. Please do not set expectations with any speakers ranked in your category until the official notification by the Summit speaker manager, which will happen the week of March 26.

LINKS FOR REFERENCE: 
Track Chair tool:  https://www.openstack.org/track-chairs/
Track Chair overview & details: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Vancouver_Summit_Track_Chairs
Track Chair group email: openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org

Please make all final selections in the tool no later than March 11 at 23:00 UTC.

If you have any queries or issues along the way please notify us at summit at openstack.org. 

Cheers, 
Claire


VANCOUVER TRACKS & CHAIRS:

Enterprise IT Strategies 
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.
Chairs: 
	• Mark Baker <mark.baker at canonical.com>
	• Dave Pitzely <david_pitzely at cable.comcast.com> 
	• Yih Leong Sun <yihleong.sun at liberty-it.co.uk> 
	• Sean Winn <sean.winn at emc.com>

Telco Strategies
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. 
Chairs: 
	• Beth Cohen <bfcohen at luthcomputer.com>, <beth.cohen at verizon.com>
	• Toby Ford <TF4242 at att.com> 
	• Jincheol Kim <jincheol.b.kim at sk.com> 
	• Haiying Wang <haiying.wang at huawei.com>  

How to Contribute
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. 
Chairs: 
	• Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org> 
	• Victoria Martinez de la Cruz <victoria at vmartinezdelacruz.com> 
	• Rossella Sblendido <rossble at gmail.com> 
	• Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com>

Planning Your OpenStack Cloud 
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.
Chairs: 
	• Das Kamhout <das.kamhout at intel.com>
	• Andrew Mitry <Andrew_Mitry at cable.comcast.com> 
	• Justin Erenkrantz <justin at erenkrantz.com> 

Products, Tools & Services 
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.
Chairs: 
	• Manju Ramanathpura <manju.ramanathpura at hds.com> 
	• Sirish Raghuram <sraghuram at platform9.com> 
	• Jonathan Gershater <jgershat at redhat.com> 
	• Heidi Bretz <Heidi at openstack.org 

User Stories
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. 
Chairs: 
	• Allison Price <allison at openstack.org>
	• Lauren Sell <lauren at openstack.org> 
	• Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> 

Community
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. This track will also include sessions covering community governance topics. 
Chairs: 
	• Niki Acosta <nikacost at cisco.com> 
	• Shari Mahrdt <shari at openstack.org> 
	• Nalee Jang <nalee999 at gmail.com> 
	• Kavit Munshi <kavit at aptira.com> 
	• Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> 

Related OSS Projects
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.
Chairs: 
	• Chris Hoge <chris at openstack.org> 
	• Dan Krook <krook at us.ibm.com> 
	• Elizabeth Joseph <lyz at princessleia.com> 

Operations 
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 Ops Summit for some serious working sessions (no basic intros here) on making the OpenStack software and ops tools for it better.
Chairs: 
	• Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> 
	• Jesse Keating <jesse.keating at rackspace.com>
	• Shilla Saebi <shilla.saebi at gmail.com> 
	• Jesse Proudman <jproudman at bluebox.net> 

Cloud Security 
The Security track will feature technical presentations, design and implementation disussions relevant to cloud security and OpenStack. 
Chairs: 
	• Robert Graham Clark <robert.clark at hp.com> 
	• Malini Bhandaru <malini.k.bhandaru at intel.com> 
	• Scott Carlson <sccarlson at paypal.com> 
	• Bryan Payne <bdpayne at acm.org>

Compute 
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.
Chairs: 
	• Masayuki Igawa <igawa at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> 
	• Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> 
	• Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> 

Cloud Storage 
The Storage track will feature technical presentations, use cases, design and implementation discussions relevant to cloud storage and OpenStack.
Chairs: 
	• Rob Esker <Rob.Esker at netapp.com> 
	• John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com>
	• John Dickinson <me at not.mn> 
	• Guillaume Aubichon <guillaume at digitalfilmtree.com> 

Cloud Networking 
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.
Chairs: 
	• Kyle Mestery <mestery at mestery.com>
	• Mark McClain <mark at mcclain.xyz> 
	• Sridhar Basam <Sridhar_Basam at cable.comcast.com> 

Public & Hybrid Clouds
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. 
Chairs: 
	• Chris Jackson <chris at wigweb.co.uk>
	• Adam Weissmueller <adam.weissmuller at gmail.com> 
	• John Zannos <john.zannos at canonical.com>

Hands-On Labs (90 minutes) 
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. 
Chairs: 
	• Florian Haas <florian.haas at hastexo.com> 
	• Tony Campbell <tcampbel at rackspace.com> 
	• Robbie Williamson <robbie at canonical.com>
	• Egle Sigler <ushnishtha at hotmail.com>

Targeting Apps for OpenStack Clouds
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.
Chairs: 
	• Everett Toews <everett.toews at rackspace.com>
	• Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org>

Cloudfunding: Startups and Capital
This track will discuss where investors are seeing the most opportunity to fund new startups as OpenStack growth continues in new markets around the globe. The track will also cover how to source and ask for funding if you have the next hot OpenStack-related startup idea.
Chairs: 
	• Ryan Floyd <rfloyd at stormventures.com>
	• Heidi Bretz <heidi at openstack.org> 



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