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Travel Support Committee - OpenStack Summit Austin
by Kendall Waters 10 Dec '15

10 Dec '15

Dear Board of Directors, We’re putting together the committee for the Austin Summit Travel Support Program, which will open next week, and we are looking for 3 board members to join. Every year we have 3 members from the Board of Directors, Technical Committee, User Committee, Ambassadors and Foundation staff. For the previous Summit we had Robert Esker, Egle Sigler, and Eileen Evans serve as committee members from the Board and we’re looking for three new individuals to join us this year. A big thank you to them! We were able to fund the accommodation and flight costs of 30 key contributors. Applications will close February 9 and the Travel Committee will have from February 10-23 to submit their votes. If you are available sometime during this timeframe (February 10-23) for approximately 2-4 hours and are interested in being part of the Travel Support Committee, please let me know by end of next week. The first three individuals who reply will be selected. FYI - the option to fund the travel support program is also available as a sponsorship option. If interested please contact summit(a)openstack.org. Thanks! Kendall Kendall Waters OpenStack Marketing kendall(a)openstack.org

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Call for agenda items for the December 3 Board Meeting
by AlanClark 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

OpenStack Board members, A reminder of the Board meeting (conference call) slated for December 3rd. With the U.S. holiday this week I wanted to send out an earlier reminder and request for agenda items. If you have an item for the board meeting agenda please let me know. Thanks, AlanClark

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Call for candidates for individual directors
by Tim Bell 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

I don't recall the notifications on the individual directors call for candidates being sent out. The nominations appear to be open (https://www.openstack.org/election/2016-individual-director-election/) since November 23rd but I think a bit more publicity is needed to get the maximum community coverage. There are a couple of glitches in the web pages also - In the candidate application (https://www.openstack.org/profile/CandidateApplication/), the last question refers to the priorities in 2015. I think this should be 2016. - In https://www.openstack.org/profile/election, the "See The Current Nominations" links to the 2015 candidates page rather than https://www.openstack.org/election/2016-individual-director-election/Candida teList/ - In prior years, an email was sent when people nominated you. These do not seem to be going out at the moment. Tim

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DreamHost Board Member Change
by Simon Anderson 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

OpenStack Board colleagues and Gold members, After 4.5 years with DreamHost as CEO, the DreamHost Board and I are agreeing that I will step down as CEO effective November 25, 2015. It's been a fantastic 4+ years in the role, and I have so appreciated being a part of forming the OpenStack Foundation, representing Gold members on the Board, and collaborating with the community and each of you to build OpenStack into what it is today. I will still be very involved in OpenStack as a community member and through Akanda, the major contributor to the OpenStack Astara network virtualization and services orchestration project. As many of you know I co-founded Akanda in 2014 and Chair the Board, as well as being an investor. The DreamHost Board has nominated Jonathan LaCour, VP Cloud at DreamHost, as my replacement Gold member Director. Jonathan is copied on this email and will engage directly with Gold members and the Board from this point on and I am sure you will find him a great successor to yours truly. Thanks again for all the great times, debates, big ideas and teamwork. There will be many more together! My personal email is simonkanderson(a)gmail.com and my cell is 310-600-1452. Feel free to reach out anytime, and see you at a future OpenStack event. Best, Simon Anderson CEO, DreamHost

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Re: [Foundation Board] [Gold Members] DreamHost Board Member Change
by Anni Lai 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Simon, Sorry to hear that you are leaving the Board. You have always been so warm and helpful to the new comers in the Gold member community. We will miss you greatly. Jonathan, welcome to the OpenStack Gold member community. Best regards, Anni Sent from HUAWEI AnyOffice From: Simon Anderson To: foundation-board(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:foundation-board@lists.openstack.org>; goldmembers(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:goldmembers@lists.openstack.org>; Cc: Jonathan LaCour; Simon Anderson; Subject: [Gold Members] DreamHost Board Member Change Time: 2015-11-17 15:44:12 OpenStack Board colleagues and Gold members, After 4.5 years with DreamHost as CEO, the DreamHost Board and I are agreeing that I will step down as CEO effective November 25, 2015<x-apple-data-detectors://4>. It's been a fantastic 4+ years in the role, and I have so appreciated being a part of forming the OpenStack Foundation, representing Gold members on the Board, and collaborating with the community and each of you to build OpenStack into what it is today. I will still be very involved in OpenStack as a community member and through Akanda, the major contributor to the OpenStack Astara network virtualization and services orchestration project. As many of you know I co-founded Akanda in 2014 and Chair the Board, as well as being an investor. The DreamHost Board has nominated Jonathan LaCour, VP Cloud at DreamHost, as my replacement Gold member Director. Jonathan is copied on this email and will engage directly with Gold members and the Board from this point on and I am sure you will find him a great successor to yours truly. Thanks again for all the great times, debates, big ideas and teamwork. There will be many more together! My personal email is simonkanderson(a)gmail.com<mailto:simonkanderson@gmail.com> and my cell is 310-600-1452<tel:310-600-1452>. Feel free to reach out anytime, and see you at a future OpenStack event. Best, Simon Anderson CEO, DreamHost

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Start prepping for the year end report; content ready by December 10
by AlanClark 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Directors and Committee Chairs, It was great to see everyone at the Summit. The week sure went by quickly. A big thank you to everyone for helping with the board meeting! I wanted to give everyone a quick heads up. Please start thinking about content for the year end report. I would like to have gathered the content from the Board by December 10. I feel that last years report [1] turned out great and propose a similar format for this years report. If you have thoughts on format changes or additional content that we should include please let me know. I will set up a wiki page where we can post the content and send another email to each of the committee chairs. Thanks, AlanClark [1] https://www.openstack.org/assets/reports/osf-annual-report-2014.pdf

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