Apols, SamJ is notorious enough in most of my contexts to qualify as "Just Sam" :-)
SamJ, how about it? Tax exemption, got time? (Of course, Mr Ramji, if you're keen, you're welcome to take it on :-) ) N On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Sam Ramji <[email protected]> wrote: > "Sam" is not a unique namespace at OCI. > Which one do you mean? > Cheers, > Sam > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Nóirín Plunkett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sam, do you have the bandwidth to register for the tax exemption? I >> have some time next week, but I know nothing about all the California >> paperwork, so I suspect getting me up to speed on that might be slower >> than just doing it? >> >> For the rest, I think a quick call next week would be great, and we >> can figure out weeklies then? What time suits? (I thought Doodle had a >> good option for selecting both time and day, but I can't find it now). >> I'm on Pacific time, and can do anything except Weds am (Apache board >> calls always go long :-)) >> >> Noirin >> >> > Aside from the paperwork we'll want to put together some sort of a go to >> > market plan in the coming weeks, for execution starting January? Not >> > much is >> > going to happen through December anyway but if any of you have any ideas >> > about what we can do between now and year end I'm all ears — >> > incorporating >> > any feedback we've received and pushing out the 1.0 version of the Open >> > Cloud Principles obviously needs to happen soon. We'll then need to work >> > on >> > getting vendors to support them and customers to ask for them — once we >> > get >> > a few on board we should get critical mass pretty quickly. >> > Noirin: if you've got the spare cycles and are up for some program >> > management then that's great. I was looking for software to draw up a >> > plan >> > as recently as this weekend, but I'm still averaging 3+ countries a week >> > (Switzerland, Croatia & UK this week) which makes it hard for me to find >> > more than a couple of hours a week to contribute, at least until January >> > when an open position at work will be filled. In any case I see us all >> > as >> > equals (despite some of us having official positions as required by >> > california corporations code) and am happy to see us sharing the load. >> > I'll be in California for the latter half of November & first few days >> > of >> > December so let's try to tee up a face to face for those who are in >> > town, >> > and possibly an SGM to adopt the Open Cloud Principles, appoint any new >> > members, and deal with any other business. >> > Congratulations for getting this far — I think 2012 will be our year! >> > Cheers, >> > Sam > >
