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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Mark,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Great… thanks for all the effort from the foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Tim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Mark Collier [mailto:mark@openstack.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> 22 March 2013 21:08<br><b>To:</b> Tim Bell<br><b>Cc:</b> Claire Massey; Lauren Sell; Todd Morey; Jonathan Bryce<br><b>Subject:</b> Fwd: Help the OpenStack User Committee!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>We are pulling out all of the stops to get your survey populated :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It's gone out to all of the gold, platinum, and individual members. This was to all of our corporate sponsors. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It's also been posted to linked in, twitter, our blog, the OpenStack home page, the user groups, and probably some other places I'm forgetting. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Can't way to review the results !<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mark <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b>From:</b> Claire Massey <<a href="mailto:claire@openstack.org">claire@openstack.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> March 22, 2013, 3:03:32 PM CDT<br><b>To:</b> Mark Collier <<a href="mailto:mark@openstack.org">mark@openstack.org</a>>, Lauren Sell <<a href="mailto:lauren@openstack.org">lauren@openstack.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Help the OpenStack User Committee!</b><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>As you may know, the OpenStack Foundation recently formed a User Committee, who have the very important job of representing OpenStack users, and to that end they've created a user survey. It is critical that we all help them get this link in front of as many users as possible in the next few days, as the deadline to complete the survey is <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0">april 1.</a> They will present the aggregate findings at the summit. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>LINK TO SHARE: <a href="http://awe.sm/fEN82">http://awe.sm/fEN82</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>In addition to blogging and emailing and posting the link on your website & social networks, you can also retweet this post:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'><a href="https://twitter.com/openstack/status/315113815110995970">https://twitter.com/openstack/status/315113815110995970</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>If you have particular customers that you know would provide valuable feedback, please reach out to them personally. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>If you have any questions, contact <a href="mailto:lauren@openstack.org">lauren@openstack.org</a> or <a href="mailto:mark@openstack.org">mark@openstack.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>More details from the blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>If you are an OpenStack user or have customers with OpenStack deployments, please take 10 minutes to respond to our first User Survey or pass it along to your network. Our community has grown at an amazing rate in 2.5 years, and it’s time to better define our user base and requirements, so we can respond and advocate accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>Complete the User Survey by <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4">April 1, 2013</a>. It takes 10 minutes. </span></b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>Doing so will help us<i> </i>better serve the OpenStack user community, facilitate communication and engagement among our users as well as uncover new OpenStack users that might be willing to tell their stories publicly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>All of the information you provide is confidential to the Foundation </span></b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>and will be aggregated anonymously unless you clearly indicate we can publish your organization’s logo and profile on the <a href="http://www.openstack.org/user-stories"><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#BC1518;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'>OpenStack User Stories</span></a> page.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>Make sure to tune in to the User Committee when they present the aggregate findings of this important survey at the <a href="http://www.openstack.org/summit"><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#BC1518;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'>OpenStack Summit</span></a>, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5">April 15-18</a>, in Portland, OR. For those unable to attend, we’ll share the presentation and have a video of the session to view after the event.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue","serif";color:#535353'>Please help us promote the survey, and thank you again for your support!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>