<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Greetings from The Linux Foundation!</span></p>
<br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I hope this finds you well. As you know, we are hosting our annual North America technical conferences -</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> LinuxCon North America</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> & </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CloudOpen North America</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - in New Orleans at the Hyatt New Orleans September 16-18. I reached out to you early last month with codes for your members to receive a 20% discount. These events gather the best and the brightest in the Linux and open cloud communities for education and collaboration opportunities. Over 1200 attendees joined us in San Diego last year so we are hoping to see you and many of your members in New Orleans come September.  </span></p>
<br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="line-height:1.15;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am contacting you as </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Linux Foundation is announcing today the complete program and schedule for LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America. Please click here for the <a href="https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2013/07/linux-foundation-releases-program-linuxcon-and-cloudopen-north" target="_blank">press release</a> and further details. To review the complete program for <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america/program/schedule" target="_blank">LinuxCon, click here</a> and for <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-north-america/program/schedule" target="_blank">CloudOpen, click here</a>. </font></p>
<br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As a reminder; the conferences are three days, include over 100 sessions in business, operations and developer tracks, and include evening events, social opportunities and much more! In addition, we are also co-located this year with several other open source events your members might be interested in, including Linux Plumbers Conference, the UEFI Forum, Xen User Summit, Linux Security Summit, Linux Wireless Summit, Gluster Community Workshop and more. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal;white-space:normal">Be sure and register soon for a discounted price. O</span><span style="line-height:normal;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif">ur standard reg fee ends July 28th </span><span style="line-height:normal;white-space:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif">so the fee will increase very soon.</span><br>
</span></p><br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you in advance for sharing the just released program schedule with your members. Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have any questions. We are really excited to finally be holding these events in the Southeast, and hope we will see you there. </span></p>
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Best Regards,</div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Courtenay Pope</div><div>The Linux Foundation</div><div>Event and Marketing Coordinator</div><div><a value="+17703617652" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">770.361.7652</a></div>
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