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Whoa, there was no crashing.

I've been the "quarterback" of infra-cloud, but Greg and Colleen have
been the primary players, and their input was extremely valuable in
helping Jim Meyer understand what we need, which is why I asked Greg to
come.

The notes are here:
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/mitaka-infra-hpcloud-sunset

Excerpts from Anita Kuno's message of 2015-10-26 14:01:48 +0900:
> On 10/22/2015 07:46 AM, Anita Kuno wrote:
> > This post is for organization and archival purposes. Posting opinions of
> > a company's decision about their business strategy is off topic.
> > 
> > HP public cloud is going away as of 31 Jan 2016:
> > http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Grounded-in-the-Cloud/A-new-model-to-deliver-public-cloud/ba-p/6804409#.VifwJJcnFz3
> > 
> > Jim Meyer from HP would like to do what he can to close the gap with
> > infra as a result of this decision.
> > 
> > In irc, it was decided to see if we could find a time to discuss this
> > (Jim Meyer and infra developers who understand infra testing use of HP
> > cloud).
> > http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-infra/%23openstack-infra.2015-10-21.log.html#t2015-10-21T20:22:45
> > 
> > The current list i have of folks who should gather is Jim Meyer, Monty
> > Taylor, Jim Blair, Jeremy Stanley, Clark Boylan, Elizabeth Joseph and
> > myself, Anita Kuno.
> > 
> > Given that this is very short notice to organize a time to talk and that
> > Jeremy and Clark arrive in Tokyo on Sunday night, as well as that it
> > appears all of the above will be at the tc/board meeting on the Monday
> > (I'm not positive about Elizabeth, can you share your plans Lyz?), the
> > current plan is to try to find 15 or 20 minutes during lunch break to
> > discuss this and create an agreement about next steps and a follow up plan.
> > 
> > I am informed the only room open during the Monday is the board room so
> > we might have to make due with a hallway, lobby space, restaurant, or
> > perhaps a corner of the room the board is meeting in. We might play this
> > one by ear as I am expecting we will all be able to see each other
> > during the Monday.
> > 
> > If you are reading this email and would like to donate public cloud
> > resources, here is our documentation, please follow up with a thread to
> > the infra list that is not a child of this post. Please start your own
> > thread. http://docs.openstack.org/infra/system-config/contribute-cloud.html
> > 
> > If this development spurs you to want to discuss infra's relationship
> > with companies who host public clouds, the Friday meetup at summit would
> > be a good place to have that conversation. Doing so on this thread would
> > again be considered off topic.
> > 
> > The infra team is very grateful and appreciative of the companies that
> > take the time, trouble and take on the considerable work load to make a
> > commitment to OpenStack's development and support it. We are grateful
> > for our past relationship and we also acknowledge the speed with which
> > Jim Meyer made contact with the infra team on irc to offer his support
> > to find a way through this situation.
> > 
> > Conversations that imply that the infra team is not grateful to our host
> > cloud companies is not a reflection of the perspective of infra.
> > 
> > Thank you to those who support OpenStack development and allow this
> > conversation to proceed.
> > 
> > Anita.
> > 
> 
> Does someone who was in attendance at this gathering feel like updating
> the rest of us?
> 
> Given that my wishes were not honoured and someone who was well aware of
> the organization of the meeting decided to gate crash rather than make
> their desire to attend clear to everyone involved and following along on
> the mailing list, I chose to not attend.
> 
> I am sure there are folks reading who are curious.
> 
> Anita.
>