Hi board members! I would like to ask for your assistance in promoting this workshop. Would it be possible for you to either (a) put me in contact with your internal communications team, so that I can co-ordinate with them how you might be able to assist in promotion or (b) that you promote this workshop internally to all engineers working on Virt, who might be interested in either attending or presenting? We would really like to see a diversity of presenters as we saw in the recent Bangalore and Barcelona workshops, where we saw presentations from board members Red Hat, IBM, Dell and a presentation from Midokura on their work to integrate their network virtualization product with oVirt. We would also like to ensure the success of the workshop in the heart of the valley with a good turn-out from both project sponsors and users - and nothing will help ensure that more than compelling content. One other thing: it has been a while since we have had a formal board meeting. Approaching the oVirt 3.2 release, we feel that it's important to have one to get your input into the project's future direction. We would like to take advantage of this workshop to host a board meeting during the workshop. We will be contacting you individually over the coming days to request your presence and to get feedback on the agenda. Please add this date to your calendar as soon as possible, to ensure a critical mass for the board attendance. Thank you, Dave. On 12/04/2012 02:35 PM, Dave Neary wrote:

Hi everyone,

We are actively seeking speakers for the oVirt workshop which will be held in NetApp's Sunnyvale, California headquarters on 22-24 January 2013. We are interested in talks in the following areas:

* Case studies of oVirt deployments * Using oVirt effectively * oVirt Project Roadmaps * Deep dives into features/areas * Deep dives into code/debugging/tuning * Integration and extensions * Components: engine, vdsm, node, sdk/cli, reports, mom, guest agent, etc. * Subjects: network, storage, vm life cycle, scheduling & sla, gluster, etc. * Packaging, installation and distributions * Community infrastructure and services

Please submit talk proposals for review by sending a message to workshop-pc@ovirt.org. Your email should include your full name, speaker biography and your talk abstract. We will accept submissions through Friday, 14 December 2012 at 23:55 UTC. Speakers will be notified of acceptance by Friday, 21 December 2012.

Accepted speakers should plan to submit their slides to the workshop-pc@ovirt.org mailing list no later than close of business on Friday, 18 January 2013.

Registration for the workshop will be opening soon, keep your eyes open for further announcements!

Thank you all for your participation!

-- Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13