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The music I've been listening to as I work through this meld is the theme from Chariots of Fire. For these reasons: 1) the sound itself is very much classical combined with 80's electronic music; 2) it is the story of a team; 3) the music is inspiring but a bit of a slow roll in how it builds – it feels like what we're trying to do and in line with us as a telco industry; 4) the characters wrestle with personal and collective values at every turn. As an open source community we all wear the hats of our personal values, our company's values, and our open source project's values. This tension is healthy even when it is uncomfortable.
Epic Symbol from OPNFV Summit – a symbol meaning "confluence" in Chinese.
Image referenced by Al Mortonlast week – a group of folks banding together.
Above all else, get involved.
Some images from the web:
Thoughts on color scheme:
I really like OPNFV's current teal-based color scheme; with the move to Anuket, I think I'd like to potentially see some more earth tones incorporated, as long as it doesn't make it dull and muddy – perhaps something closer to gold than brown? Perhaps we could also go more saturated with some of the colors? A couple photos from my own glassware that incorporates some of our blue-greens w/ gold:
