<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Dear European Public Cloud Providers,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I wanted to quickly make you'll aware of this forthcoming event in London where several of the Research Councils in the UK will be meeting to discuss the use of public clouds in Academia:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rcuk-cloud-working-group-workshop-tickets-27722389413" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.<wbr>com/e/rcuk-cloud-working-<wbr>group-workshop-tickets-<wbr>27722389413</a> <br><br><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">The agenda is below and represents an excellent opportunity for public clouds providers to be heard in regards to the need for OpenStandards and common *simple* cloud APIs.<br></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yYZELoJKQQZMcyedVsC7j2PCERsYdBXt_pMCI3nKM68/edit" target="_blank">https://docs.google.<wbr>com/document/d/<wbr>1yYZELoJKQQZMcyedVsC7j2PCERsYd<wbr>BXt_pMCI3nKM68/edit</a></div><br><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">The RCUK represents a very significant amount of government money which will be spent in the UK, alongside the Horizon2020 funding. <br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">As most of you will know, OpenStack is now the most distributed cloud datacentre in Europe with over 26 datacentres being deployed by 21 different companies.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I believe it is important that the research funding councils hear this message as UK law requires OpenStack options to be considered on equal footing with proprietary offerings.<br><br><a href="https://youtu.be/t8IiULAPKwo?t=14m14s" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/t8IiULAPKwo?<wbr>t=14m14s</a><br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I hope several of you are able to pass this email onto your bosses and business managers and encourage them to participate.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Kind Regards, <br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Flanders<br></div></div></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Flanders | OpenStack Foundation | Community Manager (Cloud Application Communities)<br><a href="http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/meet-openstack-s-community-wrangler-david-flanders" target="_blank">http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/meet-openstack-s-community-wrangler-david-flanders</a></span></font></div></div></div></div>
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