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<div>All,</div>
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<div>It has been another successful year for the working group. We made the 1.4 release in Dec 2014 as a result of an excellent collaboration between the NVMe communities. </div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The following major features have been added to this release:</span></font></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom:10pt;">Pass Windows Hardware Certification Kit (HCK) and WHQL</li><li style="margin-bottom:10pt;">Hot plug / swap support</li><li style="margin-bottom:10pt;">Migrate to VS 2013/WDK 8.1</li><li style="margin-bottom:10pt;">WPP Tracing / WMI processing support</li><li style="margin-bottom:10pt;">Format NVM enhancement</li><li style="margin-bottom:10pt;">Bus reset enhancement</li><li style="margin-bottom:10pt;">Several bug fixes</li></span></font>
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<div>It is time for us to start the planning for 2016. </div>
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<div>Intel has agreed to chair the working group to further develop the driver starting 2016. Raymond Robles is going to take over from me to chair the working group. Carolyn Foster is going to take over from Alex Chang to be the source maintainer. I would
like to get a confirmation from the WG members to approve the new chairperson and the source maintainer during this call.</div>
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<div>Please be prepared to discuss your proposal on the new features that you would like to see in the 2015 release of the driver.</div>
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<div>Agenda:</div>
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<div>- Review 1.4 release (Kwok)</div>
<div>- Confirmation of Ray and Carolyn as the chairperson and source maintainer (All)</div>
<div>- Planning for 2016 and beyond (Ray)</div>
<div>- AOB</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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<div>-Kwok Kong</div>
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