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<div>Hi Leong,</div>
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<div>You could make a similar argument for some of the other tracks. </div>
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<div>My experience with engineering-driven communities is that work on improving user experience tend to be pushed aside for highly technical presentations. Also, adding User Experience as a track communicates that users are important.</div>
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<div>Piet</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>"Sun, Yih Leong" <<a href="mailto:yih.leong.sun@intel.com">yih.leong.sun@intel.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, May 27, 2016 at 12:51 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Pieter Kruithof <<a href="mailto:pieter.kruithof.jr@intel.com">pieter.kruithof.jr@intel.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:user-committee@lists.openstack.org">user-committee@lists.openstack.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:user-committee@lists.openstack.org">user-committee@lists.openstack.org</a>>,
"<a href="mailto:openstack-tc-request@lists.openstack.org">openstack-tc-request@lists.openstack.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:openstack-tc-request@lists.openstack.org">openstack-tc-request@lists.openstack.org</a>>, Heidi Joy Tretheway <<a href="mailto:heidijoy@openstack.org">heidijoy@openstack.org</a>>,
Edgar Magana <<a href="mailto:edgar.magana@workday.com">edgar.magana@workday.com</a>>, David F Flanders <<a href="mailto:flanders@openstack.org">flanders@openstack.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>RE: Barcelona Tracks<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">This is just my personal opinion and I have no strong oppose on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">In my opinion, “user experience” is not a track itself but potentially cover many aspect in OpenStack, which will fall under different tracks depending on the
“context”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If the talk is related to user experience from App Developer perspective, that might fit under “Cloud App Development”.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">For example, the Marcela’s cloud benchmarking was presented in this track at Austin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If the talk is from Operator perspective, maybe “Operations” will be a good one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If the talk is about new tools for user experience, that would probably fit under “Related OSS Projects” or “Products & Services” track.<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:#1F497D">My 2 cents.. :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Kruithof Jr, Pieter [<a href="mailto:pieter.kruithof.jr@intel.com">mailto:pieter.kruithof.jr@intel.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 27, 2016 10:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:user-committee@lists.openstack.org">user-committee@lists.openstack.org</a>;
<a href="mailto:openstack-tc-request@lists.openstack.org">openstack-tc-request@lists.openstack.org</a>; Heidi Joy Tretheway <<a href="mailto:heidijoy@openstack.org">heidijoy@openstack.org</a>>; Edgar Magana <<a href="mailto:edgar.magana@workday.com">edgar.magana@workday.com</a>>;
David F Flanders <<a href="mailto:flanders@openstack.org">flanders@openstack.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [User-committee] Barcelona Tracks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hi Folks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I was hoping you could help me understand how the presentation tracks are identified for each summit. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/categories/track-list">https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/categories/track-list</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I’m sure you know where I’m going with this…would like to propose that we include a “user </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">experience” track
or something more catchy like “Focus on customers" or “What have you done for me lately.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">” </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The goal is to help </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">generate a deeper discussion on how we serve our customers within the community. Note
that this isn’t intended to be a way to add more sessions from the OpenStack UX project. In fact, I’m far more interested in hearing how the other projects are focusing on their customers. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">For example, the Horizon project has done an interesting concepts that integrates searchlight more deeply into the user portal. In addition, the Docs team will
be looking at how information architecture can be changed to better inform our users. Also, OpenStackClient has also done a few usability studies with both operators and end users that would be interesting for the community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Lemme know what you think..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Piet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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