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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">FWIW, I agree with Kenneth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Kenneth Hui [mailto:kenhuinyc@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> John Griffith <john.griffith@solidfire.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Timeline for Austin Session Selection Process<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From the responses so far, I don't think you have to worry about anyone thinking that you are judging partially.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. :)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kenneth Hui<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:02 PM, John Griffith <<a href="mailto:john.griffith@solidfire.com" target="_blank">john.griffith@solidfire.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Kendall Waters <<a href="mailto:kendall@openstack.org" target="_blank">kendall@openstack.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for volunteering to serve as a Track Chair for the April OpenStack Summit in Austin!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can now view your fellow track chairs on the etherpad: <a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Austin_Summit_Track_Chairs" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please mark your calendars now and plan to participate in the two-part process:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Part one: February 3-7</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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<p class="MsoNormal">Community voting will be open February 9-17<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Part two: February 22-29</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Full Timeline:</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">February 1: Deadline for speaking submissions via the Call for Speakers platform<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">February 3-7: Track Chairs review submissions and potentially move sessions to other tracks if they are a better fit BEFORE community voting begins<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">February 9-17: Session voting open to the community<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">February 22: Track Chairs receive session proposals<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">March 7: Foundation staff notifies all submitters whether or not their session was accepted into the final Summit agenda<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kendall<span style="color:#888888"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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