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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>To all in the OpenFabrics Community<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>We will be holding our first Developer Summit in the
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tampa</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Convention Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> courtesy of SC06 starting
at 1.30PM in Room 17 on Thursday November 16, 2006. On Friday November 17, we
will start in Room 13 at 8.00 AM and continue till 5.00PM. We have had to schedule
into these time slots because no other usable space is available at any other
times during the week of SC06!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>OpenFabrics will cater food and beverages for
afternoon break and supper on Thursday, breakfast, lunch and two breaks on
Friday. We will set up a registration site at Acteva to collect $$ to cover our
out of pocket expenses – I’ll email out the URL for that site in
the next day or two.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Please review attached Strawman purposes, suggested
attendees and agenda. Any changes or comments, please email them to the
community for all to comment on please. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Summit</st1:City></st1:place>
has several dimensions and themes throughout our work there:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>1) – consistency and
robustness of the Linux and Windows software stacks for Release 2.0 of OpenFabrics;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>2) - feature selection,
development resources and timelines for Release 2.0;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>3) - activities, features
and processes of the Enterprise Working Group on OFED 1.x until Release 2.0 is
ready hand-off to the EWG;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>4) – enhancing the resources
of the EWG to be ready for 2.0 it so that it may be subsequently be distributed
as OFED 2.0. and adopted by the OpenFabrics vendor and customer communities for
production use.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>This is a far too much work for just a day and half!
PLEASE START NOW exchanging ideas for additional features, contact peer
engineers from companies and customers to discuss work sizing, development
resources, identify volunteer developers for items so that when we meet on the
16<sup>th</sup> we’re not starting from a blank sheet!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Sujal Das, Johann George, <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Matt
Leininger</st1:PersonName>, Pramod Srivatsa, Hal Rosenstock, Tom Tucker and
Bob Woodruff are leading the pre-meeting, STRAWMAN collation of requirements,
feature prioritization, developer assignments, sizing and processes so that we
have the list largely complete prior to the meeting and people know has already
volunteered for items from the list.</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Bill Boas<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>VP, Business Development | System Fabric Works<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>bboas@systemfabricworks.com | 510-375-8840<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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