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The countdown is on until the next Summit in May. Below are some important updates regarding CFP, Travel and Summit Passes<\/span><\/p>\n Call for presentations<\/a> are now open for the Vancouver Summit. The deadline to submit your proposal is February 8th.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n There are some new changes to the structure of the CFP, such as track organisation. Read more here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n These sold quick in 2015 when we last went to Vancouver, don\u2019t miss out and secure yours today. You can do so here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span> For information regarding Visa applications and invitation letters, read about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n As a general planning guideline, if a visa is needed, a foreign traveler should apply for his or her visa as soon as possible, preferably no later than <\/span>60 days before the travel date<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n The Travel Support Program (TSP) aims to facilitate participation of key contributors to the OpenStack Summit by covering the costs for their travel and accommodations.\u00a0The grants will cover a combination of flights, accommodation, and access pass to the Summit.\u00a0More details here.<\/a><\/p>\n All contributors to OpenStack (developers, documentation writers, organizers of user groups around the world, Ask moderators, speakers, translators, etc) are invited to submit a request. You can apply by filling out\u00a0this form<\/a>.<\/p>\n Got any other questions about the Summit? There is an excellent FAQ here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span> Ops Meetup Tokyo<\/strong><\/p>\n The next OpenStack Ops Meetup is happening March 6-7 in Tokyo.<\/p>\n Register here.<\/a><\/p>\n Information from Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n Project Teams Gathering (PTG)<\/strong><\/p>\n The <\/span>Project Teams Gathering<\/span><\/a> (PTG) in Dublin February 26 \u2013 March 2. It\u2019s an event for anyone who self-identifies as a member in a specific given project team as well as operators who are specialists on a given project and willing to spend their time giving feedback on their use case and contributing their usage experience to the project team.<\/span><\/p>\n Upcoming Industry Events<\/strong><\/p>\n FOSDEM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The Foundation will be present at FOSDEM in Brussels, February 3-4 2018. <\/span><\/p>\n OpenStack booth will be in building K, level 1<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n OpenStack delivers a keynote at Chaosscon<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Feb 2, 2018 in Brussels<\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/grimoirelab.github.io\/con\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Upcoming CFP<\/strong><\/p>\n LF Open Source Leadership<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Closing date: January 21, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n OSCON 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Closing Date: January 30, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n LinuxCon ContainerCon | CloudOpen China<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Closing Date: March 4, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n ONS Europe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Closing Date: June 24, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n OpenStack Technical Committee E-office Hours<\/strong><\/p>\n The TC has e-office hours each week to field any questions you may have. <\/span><\/p>\n Find out more details here:<\/span> Welcome to 2018! Important Vancouver Summit Updates The countdown is on until the next Summit in May. Below are some important updates regarding CFP, Travel and Summit Passes CFP is now open! Call for presentations are now open for the Vancouver Summit. The deadline to submit your proposal is February 8th. There are some… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8261,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8256\/revisions\/8261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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