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Fantastic news!  Thank you for the details and update.

I'm looking forward to celebrating the first vendors to complete the
process!

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Mark Collier <mark at openstack.org> wrote:

> Good people of defcore,
>
> I’m excited to announce that all of your hard work is paying off, and we
> at the Foundation are now operationally executing on the new requirements
> approved by the board as 2015.03 !  What does this mean?
>
> 1) We are communicating the new, board approved requirements on this page:
> openstack.org/interop (right now it’s a just hand curated text in a
> table, but in the near future we’ll pull the capabilities and designated
> sections programmatically from the json, the single source of truth).
>
> 2) Going forward, all *new* licensees of the “OpenStack Powered” program
> will be required to meet these specs, including tests which we (chris hoge
> specifically) will be validating.
>
> 3) At this time, we are *encouraging*, though not *requiring*, existing
> licensees for existing OpenStack Powered products in the marketplace (
> openstack.org/marketplace) to run the tests and re-sign the agreements.
> This is something we aren’t going to rush into, the primary focus is on new
> products, which we expect to see many of as we approach the Vancouver
> summit.  We would like to get all of the public clouds validated under the
> new model as quickly as possible, though, since those tend to be more
> continuously delivered, and are a key target for developers.
>
> We started communicating these changes to relevant companies via an open
> marketing meeting yesterday.  The recording, slides, and relevant pages are
> below:
>
> - Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/openstack/open-stackpowered-april2015
> - Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VBPtHzIZnk
> - OpenStack Brand Guide: https://www.openstack.org/brand
> - OpenStack Interoperability Guidelines:
> https://www.openstack.org/brand/interop/
> - Need help running the tests? Email interop at openstack.org (which goes to
> Chris Hoge)
>
> Thanks again for everyone’s hard work!  We are finally able to put it to
> good use.
>
> Mark
>
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