<div dir="auto">Hi Melvin,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Just to confirm - the Forum will run Monday through Thursday, and presumably the session scheduling will be flexible to meet the needs of the leads/facilitators?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div dir="auto">b1airo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 Mar. 2017 6:56 am, "Melvin Hillsman" <<a href="mailto:mrhillsman@gmail.com">mrhillsman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="m_3536889925488220155gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><div>Hey everyone!</div><div><br></div><div>We have made it to the next stage of the topic selection process for the Forum in Boston.</div><div><br></div></span><div style="font-size:12.8px">Starting today, our submission tool is open for you to submit abstracts for the most popular sessions that came out of your brainstorming. <b>Please note that the etherpads are not being pulled into the submission tool and discussion around which sessions to submit are encouraged.</b></div><span class="m_3536889925488220155gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><div><br></div><div>We are asking all session leaders to submit their abstracts at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://forumtopics.openstack.org/" target="_blank">http://forumtopics.openstack.o<wbr>rg/</a></div><div><br></div><div><b><font color="#ff0000">before 11:59PM UTC on Sunday April 2nd!</font></b></div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a good mix of project-specific, cross-project or strategic/whole-of-community discussions, and <u>sessions that emphasize collaboration between users and developers are most welcome!</u></div><div><br></div><div>We assume that anything submitted to the system has achieved a good amount of discussion and consensus that it is a worthwhile topic. After submissions close, a team of representatives from the User Committee, the Technical Committee, and Foundation staff will take the sessions proposed by the community and fill out the schedule.</div><div><br></div><div>You can expect the draft schedule to be released on April 10th.</div><div><br></div><div>Further details about the Forum can be found at: <a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.<wbr>org/wiki/Forum</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>OpenStack User Committee</div><div><br></div></span>
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