<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div id="magicdomid188" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">Hello Everyone!</span></div><div id="magicdomid8" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""></div><div id="magicdomid189" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">Wanted to give you all a reminder that the deadline for signing up teams for the PTG is approaching!</span></div><div id="magicdomid89" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""></div><div id="magicdomid190" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">The virtual PTG will be held from Monday October 26th to Friday October 30th, 2020.</span></div><div id="magicdomid10" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""></div><div id="magicdomid191" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="b" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">To signup your team, you must complete </b></span><span class="b u" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">BOTH</u></b></span><span class="b" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""> the survey[1] AND reserve time in the ethercalc[2] by September 11th at 7:00 UTC.</b></span></div><div id="magicdomid81" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""></div><div id="magicdomid192" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">We ask that the PTL/SIG Chair/Team lead sign up for time to have their discussions in with 4 rules/guidelines. </span></div><div id="magicdomid83" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""></div><div id="magicdomid193" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">1. Cross project discussions (like SIGs or support project teams) should be scheduled towards the start of the week so that any discussions that might shape those of other teams happen first.</span></div><div id="magicdomid194" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">2. No team should sign up for more than 4 hours per UTC day to help keep participants actively engaged. </span></div><div id="magicdomid195" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">3. No team should sign up for more than 16 hours across all time slots to avoid burning out our contributors and to enable participation in multiple teams discussions.</span></div><div id="magicdomid52" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""></div><div id="magicdomid196" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">Once your team is signed up, please register[3]! And remind your team to register! Registration is free, but since it will be how we contact you with passwords, event details, etc. it is still important!</span></div><div id="magicdomid113" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""></div><div id="magicdomid197" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">If you have any questions, please let us know.</span></div><div id="magicdomid55" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""></div><div id="magicdomid198" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">-The Kendalls (diablo_rojo & wendallkaters)</span></div><div id="magicdomid14" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""></div><div id="magicdomid199" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">[1] Team Survey: </span><span class=" url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;"><a href="https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/oct2020_vptg_survey" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; cursor: pointer !important;" class="">https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/oct2020_vptg_survey</a></span></div><div id="magicdomid200" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">[2] Ethercalc Signup: </span><span class=" url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;"><a href="https://ethercalc.openstack.org/7xp2pcbh1ncb" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; cursor: pointer !important;" class="">https://ethercalc.openstack.org/7xp2pcbh1ncb</a></span></div><div id="magicdomid201" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;">[3] PTG Registration: </span><span class=" url" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; cursor: auto;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; cursor: pointer !important;" class=""><a href="https://october2020ptg.eventbrite.com/" class="">https://october2020ptg.eventbrite.com</a></span></span></div><div id="magicdomid201" class="ace-line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""></div></div></body></html>