Hi all

Some months ago I transitioned within Red Hat from a management role back to an individual contributor role and lately I'm not so directly involved with Red Hat's day-to-day OpenStack operations.

These past years on the board have been quite a ride, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to work with you all. I remain a big advocate of the OpenStack, and so I'm very happy to be passing the baton as Red Hat's representative on the board to my good friend and close colleague, Daniel Becker.

As director of our OpenStack engineering organization, Daniel is obviously very close to Red Hat's OpenStack concerns, and has a particular interest in the health of the developer community since he is directly responsible for the majority of Red Hat's contributors.

Daniel will join today's board meeting in my place. Please give him a warm welcome, and keep in touch!

Thanks,
Mark.