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John,

>From the responses so far, I don't think you have to worry about anyone
thinking that you are judging partially.

Maybe the best endorsement I can give to your integrity in this matter  is
that I have no doubt you would decline a talk you or anyone from
NetApp/SolidFire submitted if you believed that others were more deserving.
If anything, I would be worried that you would over-rotate in the direction
of being "too" impartial. :)


-- 
Kenneth Hui

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On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:02 PM, John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Kendall Waters <kendall at openstack.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Thank you for volunteering to serve as a Track Chair for the April
>> OpenStack Summit in Austin!
>>
>> You can now view your fellow track chairs on the etherpad:
>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Austin_Summit_Track_Chairs
>>
>> Please mark your calendars now and plan to participate in the two-part
>> process:
>>
>> Part one: February 3-7
>> You will be given access to the track chair tool and asked to review
>> sessions before community voting opens to flag any talks that are in the
>> wrong track and need to be moved into a different track. You will have
>> three days to complete this step.
>>
>> Community voting will be open February 9-17
>>
>> Part two: February 22-29
>> After community voting closes you will again be given access to the track
>> chair tool to stack rank the talks within your track and collaborate will
>> your fellow track chairs to make a final team selection. You will have one
>> week to complete this step.
>>
>> Full Timeline:
>> February 1: Deadline for speaking submissions via the Call for Speakers
>> platform
>> February 3-7: Track Chairs review submissions and potentially move
>> sessions to other tracks if they are a better fit BEFORE community voting
>> begins
>> February 9-17: Session voting open to the community
>> February 22: Track Chairs receive session proposals
>> February 22-29: Track chairs review proposals and discuss choices
>> February 29: Track chairs submit final session selections via
>> administrative tool - we will provide you with a video tutorial for how to
>> use the tool
>> March 7: Foundation staff notifies all submitters whether or not their
>> session was accepted into the final Summit agenda
>> March 7: Breakout session agenda published
>>
>> We’ll be in touch later next week with a tutorial video and detailed
>> steps on how to use the Track Chair administrative tool.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kendall
>>
>> Kendall Waters
>> OpenStack Marketing
>> kendall at openstack.org
>>
>>
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> ​Hi Kendall,
>
> Since my company has been acquired by NetApp and Rob Esker has been added
> to the Storage Selection Committee I'm not sure that would give the
> perception of unfairness to the community.
>
> I can assure you that I have never let affiliation sway my views around
> anything in the OpenStack community and it won't going forward either.
>
> That being said, however I do feel that this would raise questions in the
> community and at the very least give the perception of something sort of
> unfair.  I'd be curious to get thoughts from others, but I think it might
> be best if I were to step-down as a participant here.
>
> Thanks,
> John ​
>
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