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[Michael Mayo <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone!  

I'll start with some apologies.

First off, I'm sorry for all the Launchpad mailing list confusion.  I talked with Rick Clark (dendrobates) and we're going with a similar structure as the nova and swift teams.  I removed everyone from the openstack-client-maintainers group because being a member lets you change things in Launchpad.  Of course, I trust all of you, but it makes more sense to separate the groups in case someone malicious tries to join us later.  Also, this makes things a bit less confusing.  If you object to any of that, let me know!

Second, I'm sorry (but not really) that I had to leave the Design Summit early to go get married and go on my honeymoon.  While it was certainly a joyous occasion, the timing was pretty bad with all the momentum built up from us getting together in San Antonio.

Now, on to business!

The iOS client is looking great, and I've had some good contributions from Joe Heck (heckj).  Thanks dude!

Android is on hold, which I think is okay.  If anyone wants to step up there, let me know :)

And... the web:

We're seeing a lot of web control panels out there, and it may be a good idea to accept many of them.  I love Devin's control panel for NASA, Scalr does a lot of really neat stuff, and Nachi's SimCloud prototype is very exciting.  Also, the creators of Cappuccino have expressed interest in maintaining the original web control panel prototype I created for the Design Summit in Austin.  

I was talking to Bret Piatt (bret-piatt) yesterday, and he suggested that we have web control panels for all (or most) of the popular languages.  Since we're expecting a lot of enterprises to adopt OpenStack for their private clouds, it would be good to offer control panels in as many languages as possible so that IT/dev teams can choose one to use/deploy/customize based on what they're good at.  A company full of Java developers can use the Java version.  A cool startup can use the Python or Ruby version, etc.

What do you guys think of that?

Mike Mayo
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