Hi everyone.  I'm including Nicola because hopefully he will be with us, and if 
so, this news will affect him.

I just finished a nice conversation with Francis.  He had a bunch of news for 
us.

 * Our parallel test/lpsetup projects will be done Sept. 3.  That's 
non-negotiable: the project will be over for us, and maintenance squads will 
take over.  Francis is communicating that to Tom Haddon to get progress on 
buildbot deployment.
 * Martin and I had talked about Nicola starting on yellow squad Sept. 10.  
Because of the new Sept. 3 timeline, I asked Martin if we could start Nicola 
earlier.  He said it would be tight, but he would see what he could do.  If he 
can't adjust, we'll deal with it.
 * Over the next couple of weeks, if we had any free time to work on changing 
ec2 test to work with Juju, per my LEP, Francis would be interested in that, 
but I pointed out that we might not have a lot of time for it, because of 
interviews and of any possible debugging of the other two projects that we will 
be releasing.
 * Our next project will be to write a Juju GUI in YUI--a single-page JS app.  
I've forgotten what Kapil Thangavelu told me the GUI is of, but I think it is 
for live server status and that sort of thing, able to handle thousands of 
servers, using SVG.  We will not be involved with the server side at all: we 
will only be in charge of the JS.
   * Kapil is the architect and product leader.
   * This project is high-profile: something that the product team (read: Mark) 
cares about.
   * Because it is a product team project, the travel ban is not in effect.
   * The entire squad will have an initial week-long sprint in September, maybe 
somewhere in the US East Coast.  This will also represent Nicola's induction 
sprint.  I will try to hammer out details about this with Kapil as soon as 
possible.
   * We will all be expected to attend the last three days of the product 
strategy sprint: Oct 24-26 in Copenhagen.  We might also be asked to stay for 
some of the following week, for UDS: that's to be determined.  If you would 
really like to stay, or really not like to stay, please let me know so I can 
factor that into the plans as best I can.  I will arrive earlier, on Oct 22, 
and might need to stay later.

That's it. :-)  I expect I'll have more information after I talk with Kapil.

Gary
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