Hi Colin,

 

I can share my opinion; I would like to see the whole week being used.

If I’m travelling half way around the world for an event I do want to make the 
most of the time I spend there, compressing things is not necessarily the best 
way to attract a global audience.  The people you want to be there on the DDF 
are less likely to be worried about not travelling on the Friday that those who 
are focused on networking or sales.

 

I have found for example that when I have a set of objectives at OpenStack 
related to code/projects that Friday is a day of much progress and engagement. 
The people who generally remain there on the Thursday & especially Friday are 
there to get s#%&f done which can be a great way to top off what tends to 
otherwise feel like a networking event.

 

Cheers,

                Chris

 

From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Colin Dixon 
<[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, 6 October 2016 at 03:08
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, 
"<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject: [OpenDaylight TSC] schedule structure for future ODL summits

 

At the last TSC meeting, we spent a lot of time going over what we liked and 
didn't like about how the summit was structured. See bullet 2 here:
https://meetings.opendaylight.org/opendaylight-meeting/2016/opendaylight_tsc/opendaylight-meeting-opendaylight_tsc.2016-09-29-15.03.html

Some of the ideas/concerns were:

* In the past, nobody stayed for Friday

* We can't have community volunteers run tutorials on Sunday, so they have to 
be on Monday

* That forces us into a 3-day event, which is *really* compressed if it's a 
Summit and DDF

* OpenStack apparently had the problem with people leaving on Friday, but that 
got better over time

* In the future, we're likely to co-locate the summit with some other 
projects/events to cut down on conference fatigue and try to get more 
cross-pollination

Feel free to chime in here with ideas, suggestions, tomatoes, etc.

Cheers,

--Colin

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