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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">I vote for #1: “</span>Apps on OpenStack Working Group<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D">Simplest tone. And besides, my wife in a biologist and she consistently reminds me that tech folks are being silly trying to adopt the word ‘ecosystem’ for
our work. Something about missing the great depth and interdependent beauty of true natural ecosystems. One can aspire of course.., but I digress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Everett Toews [mailto:everett.toews@RACKSPACE.COM]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 29, 2014 8:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Tom Fifield<br>
<b>Cc:</b> user-committee@lists.openstack.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [User-committee] OpenStack End User Working Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Aug 24, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Tom Fifield <<a href="mailto:tom@openstack.org">tom@openstack.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Though, as you've highlighted above, there are several definitions for<br>
'end user', so perhaps this working group should be called something<br>
more in-line with the definition above... anyone want to take a stab? :)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At the end of the day we’re talking about applications on OpenStack, whether people are developing, deploying, operating, maintaining, packaging, integrating, or whatever you want to call it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Throwing out a few ideas for discussion.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. Apps on OpenStack Working Group<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. User Apps on OpenStack Working Group<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3. Apps Targeting OpenStack Working Group<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">4. Application Ecosystem Working Group<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m partial to 4 because the connotations of an ecosystem promote broader thinking about the applications built for OpenStack clouds. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Everett<o:p></o:p></p>
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