Marianna Raffaele in the UK is helping coordinate OpenStack's presence at World Hosting Days 2013. Please support her on this request for booth staff volunteers. Thank you to StackOps and eNovance for their commitments to date! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The OpenStack Foundation is the proud Gold Sponsor of World Hosting Days 2013 (WHD.global) in Germany, one of the largest worldwide hosting events with over 4,200 attendees from the international hosting industry. At this event, OpenStack will raise awareness of the value of OpenStack cloud software for hosting and SaaS providers, including the pace of innovation, terrific community, ecosystem of tools and applications, and economies of scale. We will focus our participation on our users which are achieving these benefits. We're pleased to announce Kurt Garloff of Deutsche Telekom AG will speak about their use of OpenStack in a general session on 21 March. We're looking for a few volunteers from our member and sponsor companies to help staff the OpenStack booth. Here are the details, for your consideration. Thank you. Event Logistics: Dates: 19-21 March, 9am-6pm Location: Europa Park, Rust, Germany (near Frankfurt) Agenda: See attached Type of volunteers: People who can converse about the value and benefits of OpenStack, and have experienced these directly or indirectly with their hosting clients. Availability at the booth: There are 3 hour time slots available all three days; volunteer for one or more at your convenience. Registration: You will be provided with a code to register for the event free of charge and to book accommodation (if needed) in one of the recommended hotels at a discounted rate. We would love to hear from you and have your OpenStack skilled people on board to represent us during this event! Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Marianna Raffaele Events Assistant OpenStack Foundation [mailto:m.raffaele05@gmail.com] m.raffaele05@gmail.com Tel. [http://tel:%2B44%207940%20889129] +44 7940 889129 [http://www.worldhostingdays.com/eng/index.php] http://www.worldhostingdays.com/eng/index.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Kathy Cacciatore OpenStack Industry Event Planner 1-512-970-2807 (mobile) Part time: Monday - Thursday, 9am - 2pm US CT kathyc@openstack.org