Thanks Jimmy and Tom for the quick response to this problem.
I was just surprised to see some seasoned OpenStack people to just provide their own proposals, while it was pretty explicit that the Forum wouldn't have the same CFP, so I wondered if I missed some discussion :-)


On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Jimmy McArthur <jimmy@openstack.org> wrote:
This was an error. We will be contacting individual submitters and explaining the forum process. Meantime, we have removed these sessions from community voting.

Thanks,
Jimmy McArthur <jimmy@openstack.org>
512.965.4846


> On Jul 27, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Tom Fifield <tom@openstack.org> wrote:
>
>> On 廿十七年七月廿六日 暮 08:52, Sylvain Bauza wrote:
>> I do see a list of proposals for the Forum track. I thought the Forum sessions would be discussed differently from the other tracks like we did for Boston, so should we still review them ? Should also the Foundation discuss with the related proposers and explain how the Forum works if I'm right?
>
> Fixing, standby...
>
>> -Sylvain
>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:51 AM, Jimmy McArthur <jimmy@openstack.org <mailto:jimmy@openstack.org>> wrote:
>>    Hey all
>>    Apologies for the oversight. There are two issues that we are
>>    looking into and will get fixed ASAP.
>>    * problems with search feature
>>    * the super obvious "missing abstract" issue
>>    Very sorry for the trouble. Will get things up and running ASAP
>>    Thanks,
>>    Jimmy McArthur <jimmy@openstack.org <mailto:jimmy@openstack.org>>
>>    512.965.4846 <tel:(512)%20965-4846>
>>    On Jul 26, 2017, at 7:19 AM, Michael Still <mikal@stillhq.com
>>    <mailto:mikal@stillhq.com>> wrote:
>>>    Agreed. I spent ages crafting an abstract to bemuse and delight,
>>>    and now no one can see it. Hold me.
>>>
>>>    Michael
>>>
>>>    On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 5:22 AM, Gary Kevorkian (gkevorki)
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>>>        Seeing the same thing.
>>>
>>>        See attached…
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>        On 7/25/17, 12:10 PM, "Steve Gordon" <sgordon@redhat.com
>>>        <mailto:sgordon@redhat.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>            Maybe it's just me but just looking at my own submission
>>>        it looks like the voting display is cutting off abstracts
>>>        somehow? When I go through the CFP site there is quite a
>>>        fairly lengthy abstract saved, but none appears on the voting
>>>        site?
>>>
>>>        https://www.openstack.org/summit/sydney-2017/vote-for-speakers#/19206
>>>        <https://www.openstack.org/summit/sydney-2017/vote-for-speakers#/19206>
>>>
>>>            Spot checking a lot of other submissions I see a lot
>>>        showing no abstract as well, which seems unlikely?
>>>
>>>            Thanks,
>>>
>>>            Steve
>>>
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