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Can you share a refresher on the Summit speaker submission review/approval
process and how voting will work?

Thanks,
Matt




On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> wrote:

>  Hi Everyone,
>
>  *The Call for Speakers is OPEN for the November OpenStack Summit in
> Paris! Submit your talks
> here: https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/call-for-speakers/
> <https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/call-for-speakers/>.*
>
>  There are a few new speaking tracks in the Summit lineup this year so
> please review the below list before you submit a talk.
>
>  Don't wait! *The Call for Speakers will close on July 28 at 11:59pm CDT.*
>
>  The Summit will take place in Paris at Le Palais des Congrès, November
> 3-7. The main conference and expo will run Monday - Wednesday and the
> design summit will run Tuesday - Friday. Continue to visit
> openstack.org/summit for information including: event format,
> registration, hotel room blocks, visa letters, etc.
>
>  If you have any Summit related questions please email
> events at openstack.org.
>
>  Cheers,
> Claire
>
>
>  *Proposed Speaking Tracks for the OpenStack Summit in Paris:*
>
>
>    - *Enterprise IT Strategies*
>
>
>    - Enterprise IT leaders building their cloud business case are facing
>    unique requirements to manage legacy applications, new software development
>    and shadow IT within industry regulations and business constraints. In this
>    track, we'll discuss how OpenStack is meeting enterprise IT technical
>    requirements and cover topics relevant to planning your cloud strategy,
>    including culture change, cost management, vendor strategy and recruiting.
>
>
>    - *Telco Strategies*
>
>
>    - Telecommunications companies are one of the largest areas of growth
>    for OpenStack around the world. In this track, we'll feature content
>    relevant to these users, addressing the evolution of the network and
>    emerging NFV architecture, the global IaaS market and role of telcos,
>    industry regulation and data sovereignty, and industry cooperation around
>    interoperability and federation.
>
>
>    - *How to Contribute*
>
>
>    - The How to Contribute track is for new community members and
>    companies interested in contributing to the open source code, with a focus
>    on OpenStack community processes, tools, culture and best practices.
>
>
>    - *Planning Your OpenStack Project*
>
>
>    - If you are new to OpenStack or just getting started planning your
>    cloud strategy, this track will cover the basics for you to evaluate the
>    technology, understand the different ways to consume OpenStack, review
>    popular use cases and determine your path forward.
>
>
>    - *Products, Tools & Services*
>
>
>    - OpenStack's vibrant ecosystem and the different ways to consume it
>    are among it's greatest strengths. In this track, you'll hear about the
>    latest products, tools and services from the OpenStack ecosystem.
>
>
>    - *User Stories*
>
>
>    - Sharing knowledge is a core value for the OpenStack community. In
>    the user stories track, you'll hear directly from enterprises, service
>    providers and application developers who are using OpenStack to address
>    their business problems. Learn best practices, challenges and
>    recommendations directly from your industry peers.
>
>
>    - *Community Building*
>
>
>    - OpenStack is a large, diverse community with more than 75 user
>    groups around the world. In the community building track, user group
>    leaders will share their experiences growing and maturing their local
>    groups, community leaders will discuss new tools and metrics, and we'll
>    shine a spotlight on end user and contributing organizations who have
>    experienced a significant internal culture change as participants of the
>    OpenStack community.
>
>
>    - *Related OSS Projects*
>
>
>    - There is a rich ecosystem of open source projects that sit on top
>    of, plug into or support the OpenStack cloud software. In this track, we'll
>    demonstrate the capabilities and preview the roadmaps for open source
>    projects relevant to OpenStack. This presentation track is separate from
>    the open source project working sessions, which allow the contributors to
>    those projects to gather and discuss features and requirements relevant to
>    their integration with OpenStack. A separate application for those working
>    sessions will be announced.
>
>
>    - *Operations*
>
>
>    - The Operations track is 100% focused on what it takes to run a
>    production OpenStack cloud. Every presenter has put endless coffee-fueled
>    hours into making services scale robustly, never go down, and automating,
>    automating, automating. The track will cover efficient use of existing
>    tools, managing upgrades and staying up-to-date with one of the world's
>    fastest-moving code bases and "Architecture show and tell," where
>    established clouds will lead a discussion around their architecture. If
>    you're already running a cloud, you should also join us in the *Ops
>    Summit* for some serious working sessions (no basic intros here) on
>    making the OpenStack software and ops tools for it better.
>
>
>    - *Cloud Security*
>
>
>    - The Security track will feature technical presentations, design and
>    implementation disussions relevant to cloud security and OpenStack.
>
>
>    - *Compute*
>
>
>    - Computing is a broad topic, but this track will offer technical
>    presentations, use cases, and design and implementation specific to the
>    OpenStack Compute project. Topics will include new features, integration
>    with tools and technologies and configuration as well as hypervisors, HA,
>    schedulers, bare metal computing and databases.
>
>
>    - *Cloud Storage*
>
>
>    - The Storage track will feature technical presentations, use cases,
>    design and implementation discussions relevant to cloud storage and
>    OpenStack.
>
>
>    - *Cloud Networking*
>
>
>    - The Networking track will feature technical presentations, use
>    cases, design and implementation discussions relevant to cloud networking,
>    specifically topics like SDN, scale, IPv6, policies, HA and performance.
>
>
>    - *Public & hybrid clouds*
>
>
>    - The public and hybrid clouds track will cover issues and
>    considerations unique to organizations who are making use of public or
>    hybrid cloud infrastrucutre, or are considering this approach.
>
>
>    - *Hands-On Labs (90 minutes)*
>
>
>    - Hands-on Labs offers a window into OpenStack training for operators
>    and application developers. Sessions are typically 90 minutes and set
>    classroom style for interaction. Bring your laptop and walk away with
>    OpenStack skills.
>
>
>    - *Targeting Apps for OpenStack Clouds*
>
>
>    - A large community of application developers and ecosystem of
>    development tools is growing around OpenStack. This track will be for users
>    who are building and deploying applications on OpenStack clouds, and cover
>    topics like automating and managing application deployment, application
>    software configuration, SDKs, tools, PaaS and big data.
>
>
>
>
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