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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Melvin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">My team is running meetups in Boston and Austin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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"> Melvin Hillsman [mailto:mrhillsman@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 13, 2017 8:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Technical Committee <openstack-tc@lists.openstack.org>; user-committee <user-committee@lists.openstack.org>; foundation-board@lists.openstack.org mailing list <foundation-board@lists.openstack.org>; OpenStack Foundation <secretary@openstack.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [User-committee] User Group Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">One of our primary passions as UC members is to stay connected to User Groups right!? I know for the Forum I took time to ping those who are listed as organizers for every OpenStack user group listed on
<a href="http://meetup.com">meetup.com</a> and quite honestly it took awhile and I am sure I missed a few among the hundred or so direct messages I had to send.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Do we have an updated list of User Group organizers and a way to reach them directly? I know we have the blog and we have ML but in my honest opinion and what has worked best for me is being able to reach out
to these organizers directly and being proactive and engaging them. I would like to not have to go through the pain of
<a href="http://meetup.com">meetup.com</a> direct messaging going forward if possible because something is already in place.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If not, do we have something in place we can use that goes to the organizers directly and keeps a line of communication open between them and us? If the answer is no to this as well, anyone have any ideas? I would like to as I stated previously
be able to reach out to these organizers worldwide directly as a UC member.<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<br>
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Melvin Hillsman<br>
Ops Technical Lead<br>
OpenStack Innovation Center<br>
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<a href="mailto:mrhillsman@gmail.com" target="_blank">mrhillsman@gmail.com</a><br>
phone: (210) 312-1267<br>
mobile: (210) 413-1659<br>
<a href="http://osic.org" target="_blank">http://osic.org</a><br>
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Learner | Ideation | Belief | Responsibility | Command<o:p></o:p></p>
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