Hello! On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:36 PM Chris Morgan <mihali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Chris Morgan <mihali...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 2:13 PM > Subject: Denver Ops Meetup post-mortem > To: OpenStack Operators <openstack-operat...@lists.openstack.org> > > > Hello All, > Last week we had a successful Ops Meetup embedded in the OpenStack > Project Team Gathering in Denver. > > Despite generally being a useful gathering, there were definitely lessons > learned and things to work on, so I thought it would be useful to share a > post-mortem. I encourage everyone to share their thoughts on this as well. > > What went well: > > - some of the sessions were great and a lot of progress was made > - overall attendance in the ops room was good > - more developers were able to join the discussions > - facilities were generally fine > - some operators leveraged being at PTG to have useful involvement in > other sessions/discussions such as Keystone, User Committee, Self-Healing > SIG, not to mention the usual "hallway conversations", and similarly some > project devs were able to bring pressing questions directly to operators. > > What didn't go so well: > > - Merging into upgrade SIG didn't go particularly well > - fewer ops attended (in particular there were fewer from outside the US) > - Some of the proposed sessions were not well vetted > - some ops who did attend stated the event identity was diluted, it was > less attractive > - we tried to adjust the day 2 schedule to include late submissions, > however it was probably too late in some cases > > I don't think it's so important to drill down into all the whys and > wherefores of how we fell down here except to say that the ops meetups team > is a small bunch of volunteers all with day jobs (presumably just like > everyone else on this mailing list). The usual, basically. > > Much more important : what will be done to improve things going forward: > > - The User Committee has offered to get involved with the technical > content. In particular to bring forward topics from other relevant events > into the ops meetup planning process, and then take output from ops meetups > forward to subsequent events. We (ops meetup team) have welcomed this. > > - The Ops Meetups Team will endeavor to start topic selection earlier and > have a more critical approach. Having a longer list of possible sessions > (when starting with material from earlier events) should make it at least > possible to devise a better agenda. Agenda quality drives attendance to > some extent and so can ensure a virtuous circle. > > - We need to work out whether we're doing fixed schedule events (similar > to previous mid-cycle Ops Meetups) or fully flexible PTG-style events, but > grafting one onto the other ad-hoc clearly is a terrible idea. This needs > more discussion. > > - The Ops Meetups Team continues to explore strange new worlds, or at > least get in touch with more and more OpenStack operators to find out what > the meetups team and these events could do for them and hence drive the > process better. One specific work item here is to help the (widely > disparate) operator community with technical issues such as getting setup > with the openstack git/gerrit and IRC. The latter is the preferred way for > the community to meet, but is particularly difficult now with the > registered nickname requirement. We will add help documentation on how to > get over this hurdle. > After you get onto freenode at IRC you can register your nickname with a single command and then you should be able to join any of the channels. The command you need: ' /msg nickserv register $PASSWORD $EMAIL_ADDRESS'. You can find more instructions here about setting up IRC[1]. If you get stuck or have any questions, please let me know! I am happy to help with the setup of IRC or gerrit or anything else that might be a barrier. > - YOUR SUGGESTION HERE > > Chris > > -- > Chris Morgan <mihali...@gmail.com> > > > -- > Chris Morgan <mihali...@gmail.com> > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo) [1] https://docs.openstack.org/contributors/common/irc.html#
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