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<title>Why and how we wrote this book</title>
<para>We wrote this book to guide you through designing an OpenStack cloud
architecture. This guide identifies design considerations
for common cloud use cases and provides examples.</para>
<para>The Architecture Design Guide was written in a book sprint format,
which is a facilitated, rapid development production method for books.
The Book Sprint was facilitated by Faith Bosworth and Adam
Hyde of Book Sprints, for more information, see the Book Sprints website
(www.booksprints.net).</para>
<para>This book was written in five days during July 2014 while
exhausting the M&amp;M, Mountain Dew and healthy options
supply, complete with juggling entertainment during lunches at
VMware's headquarters in Palo Alto.</para>
<para>We would like to thank VMware for their generous
hospitality, as well as our employers, Cisco, Cloudscaling,
Comcast, EMC, Mirantis, Rackspace, Red Hat, Verizon, and
VMware, for enabling us to contribute our time. We would
especially like to thank Anne Gentle and Kenneth Hui for all
of their shepherding and organization in making this
happen.</para>
<para>The author team includes:</para>
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<para>Kenneth Hui (EMC)
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>@hui_kenneth</link></para>
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<para>Alexandra Settle (Rackspace)
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>@dewsday</link></para>
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<para>Anthony Veiga (Comcast)
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>@daaelar</link></para>
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<para>Beth Cohen (Verizon)
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<para>Kevin Jackson (Rackspace)
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>@itarchitectkev</link></para>
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<para>Maish Saidel-Keesing (Cisco)
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>@maishsk</link></para>
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<para>Nick Chase (Mirantis)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/NickChase"
>@NickChase</link></para>
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<para>Scott Lowe (VMware)
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>@scott_lowe</link></para>
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<para>Sean Collins (Comcast)
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>@sc68cal</link></para>
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<para>Sean Winn (Cloudscaling)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/seanmwinn"
>@seanmwinn</link></para>
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<para>Sebastian Gutierrez (Red Hat)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/gutseb"
>@gutseb</link></para>
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<para>Stephen Gordon (Red Hat)
<link xlink:href="http://twitter.com/xsgordon"
>@xsgordon</link></para>
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<para>Vinny Valdez (Red Hat)
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>@VinnyValdez</link></para>
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