Everyone!  Thank you for your wishes.

Yes!  I plan to stay involved and focused on ops and user ecosystem.  I remain very passionate about user empowered open infrastructure and I hope that OpenStack remains true to that vision.  Over the last year, my perspective has been shifting to consider OpenStack one of the choices for our users instead of the primary one.  I'm working to help make it easier to migrate between OpenStack and other platforms - the classic "hybrid" story.

Thanks,

Rob

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 11:02 PM Alex Freedland <afreedland@mirantis.com> wrote:
Rob,

I hope Randy is correct and a winding road will take you back to the Board in individual or any other capacity.

In the meantime, I hope your passion for OpenStack remains unchanged and you will continue contributing your time and talent in whatever way you see fit. The relationships you built are here to stay and no official status can change it.

Thank you for everything you have done to date and I no good-byes are in order.

Alex

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> On Jan 21, 2016, at 7:29 AM, Rob Hirschfeld <rob@rackn.com> wrote:
>
> OpenStack Board,
>
> It's been a privilege serving with you and excited to see bring Allison uses her considerable open source experience into the fold.
>
> I believe that interoperability remains a critical factor for OpenStack; in fact, I'm shifting my focus to even broader cross-platform interoperability because I see that as a key to open cloud success.  I encourage the board to look at interop as building a broader ecosystem than just within the project boundaries.  This is not an OpenStack challenge alone but it is our opportunity to be true open software leaders.
>
> I'm happy to talk about this (or any topic!) with you individually.
>
> Thanks for the great years together.
>
> Rob
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