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<title>Why and how we wrote this book</title>
<para>We wrote this book to guide you in designing an OpenStack cloud
architecture that meets the needs of your organization. This guide
identifies important design considerations for common cloud use cases
and provides examples.</para>
<para>This book was written in a book sprint format, which is a
facilitated, rapid development production method for books.
For more information, see the Book Sprints website
(www.booksprints.net).</para>
<para>This book was written in five days during July 2014 while
exhausting the M&amp;M, Mountain Dew and healthy options
supply, complete with juggling entertainment during lunches at
VMware's headquarters in Palo Alto. The event was also
documented on Twitter using the #OpenStackDesign hashtag. The
Book Sprint was facilitated by Faith Bosworth and Adam
Hyde.</para>
<para>We would like to thank VMware for their generous
hospitality, as well as our employers, Cisco, Cloudscaling,
Comcast, EMC, Mirantis, Rackspace, Red Hat, Verizon, and
VMware, for enabling us to contribute our time. We would
especially like to thank Anne Gentle and Kenneth Hui for all
of their shepherding and organization in making this
happen.</para>
<para>The author team includes:</para>
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<para>Kenneth Hui (EMC)
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>@hui_kenneth</link></para>
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<listitem>
<para>Alexandra Settle (Rackspace)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/dewsday"
>@dewsday</link></para>
</listitem>
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<para>Anthony Veiga (Comcast)
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>@daaelar</link></para>
</listitem>
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<para>Beth Cohen (Verizon)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/bfcohen"
>@bfcohen</link></para>
</listitem>
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<para>Kevin Jackson (Rackspace)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/itarchitectkev"
>@itarchitectkev</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Maish Saidel-Keesing (Cisco)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/maishsk"
>@maishsk</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Nick Chase (Mirantis)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/NickChase"
>@NickChase</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Scott Lowe (VMware)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/scott_lowe"
>@scott_lowe</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sean Collins (Comcast)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/sc68cal"
>@sc68cal</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sean Winn (Cloudscaling)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/seanmwinn"
>@seanmwinn</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sebastian Gutierrez (Red Hat)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/gutseb"
>@gutseb</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Stephen Gordon (Red Hat)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/xsgordon"
>@xsgordon</link></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Vinny Valdez (Red Hat)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/VinnyValdez"
>@VinnyValdez</link></para>
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