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<span id="docs-internal-guid--c886d1d-5cc8-dfc8-63d5-c0e37d5b2d9d" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At Mirantis within our customer and partner base we see growing demand to deploy and run Windows based applications on OpenStack cloud. Today we are pleased to announce the forthcoming Murano project, which is designed to ease this process.  The main goal of this initiative is to create a native OpenStack component that enables fast provisioning and operation of Windows Environments on demand.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Murano:</span></p><i style="font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Murano is an open-source initiative we initiated at Mirantis. We would appreciate all of your feedback and comments as we head for release.  Please check out these links for more information, source code, and so on.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Here are the key links:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Project blueprint: </span><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Roadmap: </span><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano/Roadmap" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano/Roadmap</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* API draft: </span><a href="http://murano.mirantis.com/content/ch04.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://murano.mirantis.com/content/ch04.html</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Sources: </span><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano#More_info" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">sources info</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Launchpad project: </span><a href="https://launchpad.net/murano" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://launchpad.net/murano</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Quickstart: </span><a href="http://murano.mirantis.com/content/ch05.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Installation Guide</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">* Horizon screenshots: </span><a href="http://murano.mirantis.com/content/ch06.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Horizon screenshots</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-weight:normal">To ask questions or make proposals, feel free to comment here, post a message on the OpenStack mailing list, or  reach us on the</span> #murano<span style="font-weight:normal"> IRC channel at freenode. Typically somebody from our team will be online in irc from 6:00 to 20:00 UTC. You can also contact the Murano community directly by sending an email  to </span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:murano@lists.launchpad.net">murano@lists.launchpad.net</a></span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (please, note that your email address should be registered in launchpad, otherwise your mail will be ignored by the mailing system).</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-weight:normal">We will also be holding weekly public community meetings on </span>#openstack-meeting-alt <span style="font-weight:normal">IRC channel Mondays at 18:00 UTC.</span></span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal"></span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are very excited about the Murano project, and as always welcome your contributions, participation, and pull requests via github.</span></b><br clear="all">
<div><br></div><div style>Regards</div>-- <br>Georgy Okrokvertskhov<br>
Technical Program Manager,<br>Cloud and Infrastructure Services,<br>
Mirantis<br>
<a href="http://www.mirantis.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mirantis.com</a><br>
Tel. +1 650 963 9828<br>
Mob. +1 650 996 3284<br>
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