<div dir="ltr">John,<div><br></div><div>From the responses so far, I don't think you have to worry about anyone thinking that you are judging partially.</div><div><br></div><div>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. :)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">--</span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"> </span><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Kenneth Hui<div><br></div><div>347.997.0935</div><div><a href="mailto:kkanghui@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">kenhuinyc@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:02 PM, John Griffith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.griffith@solidfire.com" target="_blank">john.griffith@solidfire.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Kendall Waters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kendall@openstack.org" target="_blank">kendall@openstack.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi everyone,</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for volunteering to serve as a Track Chair for the April OpenStack Summit in Austin!</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You can now view your fellow track chairs on the etherpad: </span><a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Austin_Summit_Track_Chairs" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Austin_Summit_Track_Chairs</span></a></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please mark your calendars now and plan to participate in the two-part process:</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Part one: February 3-7</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Community voting will be open February 9-17</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Part two: February 22-29</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Full Timeline:</span></div><div style="line-height:1.5999999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 1: Deadline for speaking submissions via the Call for Speakers platform</span></div><div style="line-height:1.5999999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 3-7: Track Chairs review submissions and potentially move sessions to other tracks if they are a better fit BEFORE community voting begins</span></div><div style="line-height:1.5999999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 9-17: Session voting open to the community</span></div><div style="line-height:1.5999999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 22: Track Chairs receive session proposals</span></div><div style="line-height:1.5999999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 22-29: Track chairs review proposals and discuss choices </span></div><div style="line-height:1.5999999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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</span></div><div style="line-height:1.5999999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">March 7: Foundation staff notifies all submitters whether or not their session was accepted into the final Summit agenda</span></div><div style="line-height:1.5999999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">March 7: Breakout session agenda published</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.5999999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’ll be in touch later next week with a tutorial video and detailed steps on how to use the Track Chair administrative tool. </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.5999999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cheers,</span></div><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kendall</span></span><span><font color="#888888"><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><div>
Kendall Waters<br>OpenStack Marketing<br><a href="mailto:kendall@openstack.org" target="_blank">kendall@openstack.org</a><br><br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Hi Kendall,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">John </div><br></div></div>
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