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<p class="MsoPlainText">Happy New Year everyone! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">For our first 2014 post, we wanted to take a quick look back on the accomplishments of last year. In 2013, OpenSFS added two new Participants -- Fujitsu and NCSA -- and Intel moved up to Promoter level and joined the OpenSFS board. OpenSFS
also pushed enhancements to our communications and marketing efforts, added more mature management infrastructure, continued funding the Lustre tree contract and added more Lustre development funding, supported enhanced feature availability, and had a significant
hand in building a stronger foundation that the Lustre vendor ecosystem relies on for their product lines. In particular, we continued to contribute financially to Lustre. We spent over $3 million on Lustre technical development and maintenance in 2013, our
largest annual commitment to date.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Want to hear more? <a href="http://www.opensfs.org/lustre-transparency-momentum-2014/">
www.opensfs.org/lustre-transparency-momentum-2014/</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Looking forward to working with you in 2014!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The whole OpenSFS organization<o:p></o:p></p>
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