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Acknowledgements
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The OpenStack Foundation supported the creation of this book with plane
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tickets to Austin, lodging (including one adventurous evening without
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power after a windstorm), and delicious food. For about USD $10,000, we
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could collaborate intensively for a week in the same room at the
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Rackspace Austin office. The authors are all members of the OpenStack
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Foundation, which you can join. Go to the `Foundation web
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site <https://www.openstack.org/join>`_.
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We want to acknowledge our excellent host Rackers at Rackspace in
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Austin:
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- Emma Richards of Rackspace Guest Relations took excellent care of our
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lunch orders and even set aside a pile of sticky notes that had
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fallen off the walls.
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- Betsy Hagemeier, a Fanatical Executive Assistant, took care of a room
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reshuffle and helped us settle in for the week.
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- The Real Estate team at Rackspace in Austin, also known as "The
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Victors," were super responsive.
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- Adam Powell in Racker IT supplied us with bandwidth each day and
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second monitors for those of us needing more screens.
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- On Wednesday night we had a fun happy hour with the Austin OpenStack
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Meetup group and Racker Katie Schmidt took great care of our group.
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We also had some excellent input from outside of the room:
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- Tim Bell from CERN gave us feedback on the outline before we started
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and reviewed it mid-week.
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- Sébastien Han has written excellent blogs and generously gave his
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permission for re-use.
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- Oisin Feeley read it, made some edits, and provided emailed feedback
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right when we asked.
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Inside the book sprint room with us each day was our book sprint
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facilitator Adam Hyde. Without his tireless support and encouragement,
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we would have thought a book of this scope was impossible in five days.
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Adam has proven the book sprint method effectively again and again. He
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creates both tools and faith in collaborative authoring at
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`www.booksprints.net <http://www.booksprints.net/>`_.
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We couldn't have pulled it off without so much supportive help and
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encouragement.
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