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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Hello…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Friendly reminder on nominations for new OFA NVMe Windows chair. The deadline for nominations is Feb. 10, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Thank you…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> nvmewin [mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robles, Raymond C<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 25, 2017 4:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Huffman, Amber <amber.huffman@intel.com>; Olsson, Claes <claes.olsson@intel.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [nvmewin] Happy New Year... looking to 2017 and beyond...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Happy new year OFA community family!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">As we closed out the end of 2016, we finally released our 1.5 revision of the OFA driver. This was a great achievement and I was very happy to be a part of it. As we look forward to 2017 and beyond, we are in
a good position to keep providing a robust, performant, and reliable Windows NVMe reference driver.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">With that in mind, I believe it is time for me to step down as acting chair of the OFA NVMe Windows community. I’ve been in the chair position for about two years… and this was my second stint. As with the original
intent, the chair/maintainer position was designed to rotate between companies in much the same way the NVMe promoters group works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">As I prepare to step down, I have talked to a potential candidates for replacement. As always, I believe the OFA community should nominate and vote on its new chair. In that spirit, I would like to nominate Uma
Parepalli. Uma has been a strong advocate of the OFA NVMe Windows driver (and all open source NVMe drivers) and has led technical talks in previous Flash Memory Summits. I’ve personally spoken to Uma and I believe he would make a great chair.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">At this time, I would like to call for any other nominations for the OFA NVMe Windows chair. Please submit any nominations before Feb. 10<sup>th</sup>, 2017… at which point, I will call for a vote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Thanks…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060">Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D">Raymond C. Robles<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Intel Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Office: 480-554-2600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:raymond.c.robles@intel.com">raymond.c.robles@intel.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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