<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div id="magicdomid415" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><span class="" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Dear User Committee,</span></div><div id="magicdomid416" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid417" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><span class="" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">We’re putting together the committee for the Austin Summit Travel Support Program, which will open next week, and </span><span class="b" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;"><b class="">we are looking for 3 user committee members to join.</b></span></div><div id="magicdomid418" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid419" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><span class="" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Every year we have 3 members from the Board of Directors, Technical Committee, User Committee, Ambassadors, and Foundation staff. For the previous Summit we had </span>Erwan Gallen, Maish Saidel-Keesing, and Shilla Saebi serve as committee members from the user committee and we’re looking for three new individuals to join us this year. A big thank you to them! We were able to fund the accommodation and flight costs of 30 key contributors.</div><div id="magicdomid420" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid421" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><span class="" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Applications will close February 9 and the Travel Committee will have from February 10-23 to submit their votes.</span></div><div id="magicdomid422" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid423" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><span class="" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">If you are available sometime during this timeframe (February 10-23) for approximately 2-4 hours and are</span><span class="b" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;"><b class=""> interested in being part of the Travel Support Committee, please let me know by end of next week.</b></span><span class="" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;"> The first three individuals who reply will be selected.</span></div><div id="magicdomid424" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid425" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><span class="" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">FYI - the option to fund the travel support program is also available as a sponsorship option. If interested please contact <a href="mailto:summit@openstack.org" class="">summit@openstack.org</a>.</span></div><div id="magicdomid426" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><br class=""></div><div id="magicdomid427" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><span class="" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Thanks!</span></div><div id="magicdomid428" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><span class="" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;">Kendall</span></div><div id="magicdomid428" class="ace-line" style="padding-right: 1px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; widows: 1;"><span class="" style="cursor: auto; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px;"><br class=""></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
Kendall Waters<br class="">OpenStack Marketing<br class=""><a href="mailto:kendall@openstack.org" class="">kendall@openstack.org</a><br class=""><br class="">
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