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<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">From: </span>Matt Jarvis <<a href="mailto:matt.jarvis@datacentred.co.uk" class="">matt.jarvis@datacentred.co.uk</a>><br class="">
<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Date: </span>Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 10:28 AM<br class="">
<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">To: </span>"Sebastian Jeuk (sjeuk)" <<a href="mailto:sjeuk@cisco.com" class="">sjeuk@cisco.com</a>><br class="">
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<span style="font-weight:bold" class="">Subject: </span>Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Submitting proposals after closing<br class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Yep, agree with all your comments, although to be fair they are not really engaged with the community so weren't aware about the Summits. They were planning to blog about it, and I suggested they should submit something.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 7 February 2016 at 18:11, Sebastian Jeuk (sjeuk) <span dir="ltr" class="">
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I’d agree with Florian’s comment below! If we accept this talk for submission after the deadline, shouldn’t we also accept other talks that might have been submitted too late? Who decides what talk then should be accepted for late submission and which one shouldn’t?<br class="">
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Having said that though it sounds like a very interesting topic to have in one of the next summits. Wondering, I believe the superuser nomination is still open till March 11th. Maybe that could be an option for the summit in Austin before submitting a “proper”
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> On Feb 7, 2016, at 9:50 AM, Florian Haas <<a href="mailto:florian@hastexo.com" class="">florian@hastexo.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> While I do agree that it would probably be a highly interesting talk,<br class="">
> I will say that by accepting a talk where the submitters were simply<br class="">
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> doing so — which is unlikely, considering the deadline was extended by<br class="">
> 24 hours), and thus inevitably kicking one out where *those*<br class="">
> submitters did, we wouldn't exactly be fair to the latter group.<br class="">
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> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Sriram Subramanian <<a href="mailto:sriram@clouddon.com" class="">sriram@clouddon.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
>> It will be a great talk for the audience. Even if there is no way to submit<br class="">
>> past deadline, I am sure there is a way to bring them as invited speakers.<br class="">
>> Lauren had suggested this to Big Data track chairs which had far less<br class="">
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>> On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 10:40 pm Shamail <<a href="mailto:itzshamail@gmail.com" class="">itzshamail@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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>>> On Feb 7, 2016, at 12:03 PM, Matt Jarvis <<a href="mailto:matt.jarvis@datacentred.co.uk" class="">matt.jarvis@datacentred.co.uk</a>><br class="">
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>>> Is there a mechanism for submitting proposals after the closing date ?<br class="">
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>>> The UK government is running their next generation tax platform on<br class="">
>>> OpenStack, which has just handled all of the self assessment tax returns for<br class="">
>>> the UK population, and they are keen to propose a case study talk.<br class="">
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>>> Sounds like a great talk in general and is a regional user as well.<br class="">
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>>> I have to declare an interest here, because they are running it on our<br class="">
>>> public cloud, but I think it's a fantastic case study for OpenStack in the<br class="">
>>> government sector. If getting a proposal in for Austin isn't possible, I'll<br class="">
>>> talk to them about submitting for Barcelona.<br class="">
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