Based on Sam's & Chris/Jamie feedback - perhaps we should have: Monday: learn - tutorials Tuesday: get things done - DDF day 1 Wednesday: summit day 1 Thursday: summit day 2 Friday morning: tie up loose ends - DDF day 2, any meetings or special discussion sessions (may be TSC or board)
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Sam Hague <[email protected]> wrote: > From a pure DDF point of view and wanting to get stuff done... The > tutorials are a great way to share information that was prepared and the > DDF sessions were useful to get people talking and working. Everything else > in the middle was a distraction. Yes, it is nice to attend other sessions > and hit booths, but I spent most of my time in unconference sessions and > couldn't even get around to look at other stuff. > > It does seem like we need more days in there. Overlapping with other > events/projects was also distracting based on the compressed time. I was > interested in the other events but had no time to join them. > > Also when things overlap on a schedule it makes it difficult to get all > interested parties together. Many of us cross projects and it was very > difficult to make DDF work over a day and a half with the unconference > board fully stacked. You want a schedule so others can attend, but then you > end up with overlap. So you end up with side discussions when you can get > involved parties together, but then you lose out on getting other community > members involved. > > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Colin Dixon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TSC mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.opendaylight.org/mailman/listinfo/tsc >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > TSC mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opendaylight.org/mailman/listinfo/tsc > >
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