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> On Feb 24, 2016, at 08:23, Mark Collier <mark at openstack.org> wrote:
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> This fact that you were conscientious enough to raise the question also speaks volumes about your integrity IMHO. 
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> 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. 
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> On February 24, 2016 9:18:12 AM <Sean_McGinnis at DELL.com> wrote:
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>> FWIW, I agree with Kenneth.
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>> 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
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>> John,
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>> From the responses so far, I don't think you have to worry about anyone thinking that you are judging partially.
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>> 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. :)
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>> Kenneth Hui
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>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:02 PM, John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Kendall Waters <kendall at openstack.org> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
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>> Thank you for volunteering to serve as a Track Chair for the April OpenStack Summit in Austin!
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>> You can now view your fellow track chairs on the etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Austin_Summit_Track_Chairs
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>> 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. 
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>> Community voting will be open February 9-17
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> We’ll be in touch later next week with a tutorial video and detailed steps on how to use the Track Chair administrative tool.
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>> Cheers,
>> Kendall
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>> Kendall Waters
>> OpenStack Marketing
>> kendall at openstack.org
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>> ​Hi Kendall,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks,
>> John ​
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Thanks everyone for the feedback.  I honestly had not noticed that the precedent had already been set.  I’ll talk with John Dickinson and plan to continue and certainly we can figure out what (if anything) we should address for the next time around.

Thanks!
John