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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Agreed! Though I have been around for only a short time, the discussions I have had with both of you have been valuable and I hope to continue to work with going forward; I will bug you </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"'>☺</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='color:black'>Edgar Magana <edgar.magana@workday.com><br><b>Date: </b>Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 11:12 AM<br><b>To: </b>user-committee <user-committee@lists.openstack.org><br><b>Cc: </b>Shamail Tahir <itzshamail@gmail.com>, Melvin Hillsman <mrhillsman@gmail.com>, Shilla Saebi <shilla.saebi@gmail.com>, Jonathan Proulx <jon@csail.mit.edu>, Tom Fifield <tom@openstack.org><br><b>Subject: </b>A huge thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dear Community,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I want to take this opportunity to ask you to join me to show our gratitude for the great work done by Jon and Shilla as members of the User Committee. Jon has been member of the UC from its inception. He has always been an active contributor of our community willing to help anyone who has been dealing with OpenStack. He is one of most experienced members in OpenStack Operations. I could not think of any OpenStack feature that Jon is not aware of. Thank you for helping the users and operators community to gain more appreciation to this platform that we all love and sometimes hate for sure.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Shilla has given everything to our community. She has been always providing warm welcomes to anyone and help them to become active members of what we have today. Shilla is one of the key contributors fighting and supporting changes on the OpenStack organization to benefit users and operators. She has promoted this community in so many ways that we could easily lost track of all of them.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thank you Shilla and Jon. I know you both are not running for an UC position this time but it does not mean that we won’t be bother you along the way. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Do not forget to cast your vote. Tomorrow is the last day and after that we will be welcoming new members to help us to continue the work that we all have contributed so far.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Kind Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Edgar Magana</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>OpenStack UC Chair </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>