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This fact that you were conscientious enough to raise the question also 
speaks volumes about your integrity IMHO.

I would suggest maybe revisiting for the next summit, but going ahead as a 
chair this summit. Given the large number of interesting proposals, we 
could use your expertise.







On February 24, 2016 9:18:12 AM <Sean_McGinnis at DELL.com> wrote:

> FWIW, I agree with Kenneth.
>
> From: Kenneth Hui [mailto:kenhuinyc at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:08 AM
> To: John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com>
> Cc: openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Timeline for Austin Session Selection 
> Process
>
> 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
>
> 347.997.0935
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>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:02 PM, John Griffith 
> <john.griffith at solidfire.com<mailto:john.griffith at solidfire.com>> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Kendall Waters 
> <kendall at openstack.org<mailto: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<mailto: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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