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<div>Jonathan,</div>
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<div>My understanding is that vendor pitches related to products, tools and services have a track dedicated to those submissions. If you feel that a vendor product pitch is incorrectly in your track, request the admins have it moved to the Products, Tools and
Services track where it might fit in better (and maybe have a better chance of being selected).</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>Sean</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Jonathan Gershater <<a href="mailto:jgershat@redhat.com">jgershat@redhat.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 11:56 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org">openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org">openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Openstack-track-chairs] summit selections<br>
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hi<br>
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Vendor submissions</span><br>
I am seeing quite a few vendor type pitches with lots of community votes, is that a case of a vendor having their employees and friends vote for their session?
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Generally, we should not admit vendor pitches to summit, correct?<br>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Business level submissions</span><br>
My understanding is that openstack summit wants to de-emphasize technical sessions and attract a business audience, correct?
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So should we look for business-level submissions in our tracks?<br>
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