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<p>You are registered as a cc on this help desk request and are thus receiving email notifications on all updates to the request.<br />Reply to this email to add a comment to the request.</p><p></p><div style="margin-top: 25px" data-version="2"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td width="100%" style="padding: 15px 0; border-top: 1px dotted #c5c5c5;"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style=" table-layout:fixed;"><tr><td width="100%" style="padding: 0; margin: 0;" valign="top"> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding: 0; color:#1b1d1e;"> <strong>Walter Bentley</strong> </p> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0; padding: 0; color:#bbbbbb;"> Feb 27, 12:57 CST </p> <div class="zd-comment" style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0"><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Erin,</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Is the Track Chair tool ok today? We are unable to make our selections in the tool at this current moment.</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Thanks,<br />Walter Bentley<br />Rackspace – the #1 Managed Cloud Company<br />Mobile: 347-233-0562</p></div> </td> </tr></table></td> </tr></table><p></p><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td width="100%" style="padding: 15px 0; border-top: 1px dotted #c5c5c5;"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style=" table-layout:fixed;"><tr><td width="100%" style="padding: 0; margin: 0;" valign="top"> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding: 0; color:#1b1d1e;"> <strong>Emily K Hugenbruch</strong> </p> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0; padding: 0; color:#bbbbbb;"> Feb 24, 10:15 CST </p> <div class="zd-comment" style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0"><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Yes, that's fixed now. Thank you!<br />Sincerely,<br />Emily Kate Hugenbruch<br />OpenStack Cloud Enablement Engineer - z/VM and Software Engineer - z/VM<br />IBM Corporation Endicott, NY<br />Twitter: @ekhugen<br />IRC: ekhugen@freenode</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">From: OpenStack Speaker Support <<a href="mailto:speakersupport@openstack.org" rel="noreferrer">speakersupport@openstack.org</a>><br />To:<br />Cc: Emily K Hugenbruch/Endicott/IBM@IBMUS, Openstack-track-chairs<br /> <<a href="mailto:openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org" rel="noreferrer">openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org</a>><br />Date: 02/24/2017 10:20 AM<br />Subject: Part Two: Boston Summit Session Selection Process</p></div> <p style="line-height: 22px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 14px; color:#333333;"> Attachment(s)<br /><a href="http://support.openstack.org/attachments/token/rs4Z1pnjHFlXpg76eGMMmpxpP/?name=graycol.gif">graycol.gif</a><br /></p> </td> </tr></table></td> </tr></table><p></p><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td width="100%" style="padding: 15px 0; border-top: 1px dotted #c5c5c5;"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style=" table-layout:fixed;"><tr><td width="100%" style="padding: 0; margin: 0;" valign="top"> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding: 0; color:#1b1d1e;"> <strong>Jimmy McArthur</strong> <span class="directional_text_wrapper">(OpenStack Foundation Support)</span> </p> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0; padding: 0; color:#bbbbbb;"> Feb 24, 09:20 CST </p> <div class="zd-comment" style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0"><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Emily,</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">That issue should be resolved now. Thanks for reporting! </p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Jimmy</p></div> </td> </tr></table></td> </tr></table><p></p><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td width="100%" style="padding: 15px 0; border-top: 1px dotted #c5c5c5;"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style=" table-layout:fixed;"><tr><td width="100%" style="padding: 0; margin: 0;" valign="top"> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding: 0; color:#1b1d1e;"> <strong>Emily K Hugenbruch</strong> </p> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0; padding: 0; color:#bbbbbb;"> Feb 22, 10:01 CST </p> <div class="zd-comment" style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0"><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Hi,<br />I noticed when I went in to do my selections that I have many more people<br />in the list for track chairs on the selections screen than appear in the<br />Track Chair Directory. That's not really a big issue, but I just wondered<br />if I should be including the other people when my team makes their team<br />selections? Thanks.</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Examples:</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">vs</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Sincerely,<br />Emily Kate Hugenbruch<br />OpenStack Cloud Enablement Engineer - z/VM and Software Engineer - z/VM<br />IBM Corporation Endicott, NY<br />Twitter: @ekhugen<br />IRC: ekhugen@freenode</p></div> <p style="line-height: 22px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-size: 14px; color:#333333;"> Attachment(s)<br /><a href="http://support.openstack.org/attachments/token/aiBEuIhNNQ6rEqsmsju8nSZXe/?name=18772031.gif">18772031.gif</a><br /><a href="http://support.openstack.org/attachments/token/LZoyHD7rkXbAkQl6yPqcW8XQb/?name=18378894.gif">18378894.gif</a><br /></p> </td> </tr></table></td> </tr></table><p></p><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td width="100%" style="padding: 15px 0; border-top: 1px dotted #c5c5c5;"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style=" table-layout:fixed;"><tr><td width="100%" style="padding: 0; margin: 0;" valign="top"> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding: 0; color:#1b1d1e;"> <strong>Erin Disney</strong> <span class="directional_text_wrapper">(OpenStack Foundation Support)</span> </p> <p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 0; padding: 0; color:#bbbbbb;"> Feb 22, 09:01 CST </p> <div class="zd-comment" style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0"><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Hi everyone,</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">It’s time for you to select the talks that will be included on the final Summit schedule. You have between now and next Thursday, March 2nd at 11:59pm PST (March 3rd at 7:59 UTC) to make your Team Selections.</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">FIRST - WATCH TUTORIAL VIDEO<br />Before you do anything else, watch the Part Two tutorial here <<a href="https://youtu.be/8meeot74BXk" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/8meeot74BXk</a>>. </p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">The video explains how to review and add presentations, lightning talks and alternates to your personal list and team list. Under the Team Selections tab, you can drag and drop the presentations into your order of preference. We'll consider the presentations at the top of the Team list to be the sessions to include in the final Summit agenda. Alternates will be contacted if a speaker from a confirmed session is no longer able to present. </p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Please note that everyone on your team shares the Team Selections column. Any changes that you make will override the selections/order choices that your colleagues may have made in this column. Therefore, before making your final session selections inside the Team Selections tab––we recommend that you and your fellow track chairs schedule time together via Zoom, Google Hangout, IRC, or your platform of choice to discuss the final team selections. Once you have finalized your selections as a team, add them into the Team Selections tab. The Team Selections tab must be complete no later than Thursday, March 2nd at 11:59pm PST (March 3rd at 7:59 UTC).</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Please do NOT set expectations with any speakers ranked in your category. The Foundation staff will send the speaker notifications the week of March 6th.</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">COMBINING SESSIONS OR CREATING NEW PANELS<br />You may want to combine sessions into panels or other formats, especially if there are multiple submissions about the same topic. However we request that you try to limit the number of new panels to no more than 40% of the selected sessions in your track. If you are creating a new pane, we strongly advise you to include at least one woman speaker on the panel. In order to combine talks or create new panels please follow these instructions <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPQKu9AXwOU" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPQKu9AXwOU</a>> and email the requested information to <a href="mailto:speakersupport@openstack.org" rel="noreferrer">speakersupport@openstack.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:speakersupport@openstack.org" rel="noreferrer">speakersupport@openstack.org</a>>. </p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">COMMUNICATING WITH YOUR FELLOW TRACK CHAIRS<br />You have the ability to contact your fellow track chairs directly via their contact information within the tool <<a href="https://www.openstack.org/track-chairs/directory" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstack.org/track-chairs/directory</a>> (by clicking on their name to send an email), but you may also make use of this mailing list to initiate or continue the discussion with all track chairs.</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Reminder––please make all final selections in the tool no later than Thursday, March 2nd at 11:59pm PST (March 3rd at 7:59 UTC). Should you have any queries or issues along the way, please notify us at <a href="mailto:speakersupport@openstack.org" rel="noreferrer">speakersupport@openstack.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:speakersupport@openstack.org" rel="noreferrer">speakersupport@openstack.org</a>>.</p><p style="color: #2b2e2f; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 15px 0" dir="auto">Erin Disney<br />OpenStack Marketing<br /><a href="mailto:erin@openstack.org" rel="noreferrer">erin@openstack.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:erin@openstack.org" rel="noreferrer">erin@openstack.org</a>></p></div> </td> </tr></table></td> </tr></table></div>
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