<div dir="ltr">I too think John should continue as he has shown impartial thoughtful thinking in the past and we should trust that will continue. Thanks for bringing it up John!<div>Anne</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Mark Collier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@openstack.org" target="_blank">mark@openstack.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin:0 0 1em 0;color:black">This fact that you were
conscientious enough to raise the question also speaks volumes about your
integrity IMHO. </p>
<p style="margin:0 0 1em 0;color:black">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. <br><br><br></p>
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I agree with Kenneth.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="434335715______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:<a href="mailto:kenhuinyc@gmail.com" target="_blank">kenhuinyc@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> John Griffith <<a href="mailto:john.griffith@solidfire.com" target="_blank">john.griffith@solidfire.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Timeline for Austin Session
Selection Process<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John,<u></u><u></u></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. :)<u></u><u></u></p>
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Hui<u></u><u></u></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:<u></u><u></u></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!<u></u><u></u></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">
<span style="color:#1155cc">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Austin_Summit_Track_Chairs</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please mark your calendars now and plan to participate
in the two-part process:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Part one: February 3-7</b><u></u><u></u></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
this step. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Community voting will be open February 9-17<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Part two: February 22-29</b><u></u><u></u></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
this step.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">February 1: Deadline for speaking submissions via the
Call for Speakers platform<u></u><u></u></p>
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potentially move sessions to other tracks if they are a better fit BEFORE
community voting begins<u></u><u></u></p>
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community<u></u><u></u></p>
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proposals<u></u><u></u></p>
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discuss choices
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selections via administrative tool - we will provide you with a video
tutorial for how to use the tool<u></u><u></u></p>
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whether or not their session was accepted into the final Summit
agenda<u></u><u></u></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,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kendall<span style="color:#888888"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#888888">Kendall Waters<br>
OpenStack Marketing<br>
<a href="mailto:kendall@openstack.org" target="_blank">kendall@openstack.org</a><u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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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.<u></u><u></u></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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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