
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" class="">Hi everyone,</font></span></div><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="2" class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FYI - the CFP is now open for the first</span><a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <u class="">Open Infrastructure Summit</u></span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (<i class="">formerly the OpenStack Summit</i>) which will be held in Denver, Colorado April 29 - May 1, 2019. </span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="2" class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wednesday, <b class="">*January 23* is the deadline</b> to </span><a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/call-for-presentations" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submit presentations</span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font class="" size="2">The Open Infrastructure Summit is organized by OSF and designed to be a place where open source infrastructure communities can come together and collaborate in the open. Airship will have a large and prominent presence at the event so please submit talks to the CFP and plan to attend!</font></div><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/call-for-presentations" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" class="">SUBMIT YOUR PRESENTATION</font></span></a></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" class="">Important info:</font></span></div><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="2" class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Based on previous Program Committee and attendee feedback, we have added / updated three Tracks: Security, Getting Started, and Open Development (previously Open Source Community). You can find the Track descriptions </span><a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/summit-categories" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></font></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" class="">All of the OSF pilot projects —including Airship, Kata Containers, StarlingX and Zuul — will be front and center alongside other open source communities like Ansible, Cloud Foundry, Docker, Kubernetes, and many more.</font></span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" class="">The Open Infrastructure Summit (formerly the OpenStack Summit), has evolved to recognize our diverse audience, and to signal to the market that the event is relevant for all IT infrastructure decision makers.</font></span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="2" class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you’re interested in influencing the Summit content, </span><a href="https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/openstackdenver2019_programmingcommitteenom" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">apply to be a Programming Committee member</span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">*, where you can also find a full list of time requirements and expectations. Nominations will close on January 4, 2019. </span><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The content submission process for the Forum and Project Teams Gathering will be managed separately in the upcoming months.</span></font></div></li></ul><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" class="">*OSF Staff will serve as the Programming Committee for the Getting Started Track.</font></span></div><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="2" class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Denver Summit registration and sponsor sales are currently open. </span><a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn more</span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and email </span><a href="mailto:summit@openstack.org" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">summit@openstack.org</span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with any questions. </span></font></div><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="2" class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please email </span><a href="mailto:speakersupport@openstack.org" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">speakersupport@openstack.org</span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with any questions or feedback.</span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="2" class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="2" class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks,</span></font></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="2" class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Claire</span></font></div></body></html>