 Hi, I'm Heidi Joy Trethewey with the OpenStack Foundation, speaking with my colleague Tom Feifield who's a community manager for the OpenStack Foundation. Thanks for having me, Heidi. Thanks. Well, we get to talk today about the forum, which is new. So maybe you could talk a little bit about the impetus for creating the forum format, please. Absolutely. It's extremely exciting to be here this week for our first forum. Essentially, the forum is how we execute on OpenStack's principle of open design. Where previously we've had events that artificially separated operators and developers, the forum brings the entire OpenStack community together for some strategic discussions and to plan the next release, which in the case of Boston is the Queen's release. So tell us a little bit more about the kind of people who are attending and the kind of conversations you're hearing at the forum. Absolutely. So just like the summit overall, which has 63 different countries represented, we see a whole lot of people from many different places, many different roles attending the forum. Of course, there's the development leaders of OpenStack. You've got the people who run clouds. In fact, they even saw a procurement manager stand up in a session about killing stackolytics the other day and make a contribution to the debate, which was amazing. I've noticed the debates are happening not only in real time in the fishbowl-shaped rooms, but also on the ether pads. How could somebody who's maybe watching our video later on be a part of that conversation? Absolutely. So if you jump on Google and type in Boston 2017 OpenStack and ether pads, what you find is a wiki page that has a link to every single ether pad that we've been using. If people aren't aware, an ether pad is a collaborative text editor that we use. We welcome anyone at any time to jump in there and edit comments and put a little plus one to the things that they agree in. Yeah. So even if you didn't get a chance to be part of the discussion in real time, they can still be part of the discussion virtually. That's right. And another area they can get involved is, of course, on the mailing lists. So if you have missed the discussion and the ether pad seems dead, feel free to start up a conversation on the mailing list and people will be happy to jump in. So what is your vision for how this forum is going to ultimately transform the way that the development community has these conversations and hopefully for better development? Yeah, absolutely. Well, by reimagining the design summits, which was the previous instance of this activity that happened in previous summits, we've been able to have a look at the kinds of sessions and the kind of conversations we want to have. At the forum, we're having a lot more strategic conversations than we were able to before when we were stuck in either ops land or development land. So for example, this week we've talked about how OpenStack engages with adjacent communities and that's been a fantastic conversation, especially in light of all of the Kubernetes things we saw at the keynotes this morning. And being able to have a space for those conversations is going to improve OpenStack as a whole. Removing that divide between developers and users and getting them to collaborate together and form ongoing activities, even after this event, is going to have a massive impact in terms of how we see open development happen. Very much looking forward to see how it pans out. Yeah, so give me a preview. If I wanted to go back and look at some of these sessions, what would you say are some of the most exciting or the hot topics that people are talking about this time? Absolutely. So as we mentioned before, the adjacent communities sessions, an example of a strategic one, but there's also sessions, for example, on cross-project collaboration and hierarchical quotas, I believe, got quite a bit of a feisty debate around it because you're bringing together very opinionated people from Keystone and Nova and also users in the room. So I'd recommend checking that one out. Yeah. Well, thank you very much for telling us about the forum and we're excited to dig in more in the rest of the summit. Thank you very much for having me and I hope everyone has a great time.