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                                 designing and operating OpenStack
                                 clouds.</para>
                 </abstract>
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-                                <date>2013-01-04</date>
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-                                   <listitem>
-                                   <para>Addresses detail needed in
-                                   cloud controller.</para>
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-                                <date>2013-12-18</date>
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-                                           <listitem>
-                                             <para>Adds additional explanation and detail to
-                                             Provisioning and Deployment.</para>
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-                                <date>2013-12-12</date>
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-                                   <para>Additions to acknowledgements
-                                   and preface to situate this guide
-                                   relative to other OpenStack
-                                   guides.</para>
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-                                <date>2013-05-13</date>
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-                                   <para>Updated description of
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-                                   <para>Editorial changes.</para>
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-                                   <para>Added
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-                                   to glossary terms.</para>
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-                                <date>2013-03-11</date>
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-                                   <para>Moved files to OpenStack
-                                   github repository.</para>
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         <xi:include href="acknowledgements.xml"/>