On 18 June 2012 17:57, Roger Teague <[email protected]> wrote:
> Probably a bit off topic but one of the benefits I am seeing from connect is 
> helping to keep ARM development teams in-step with Linaro WGs and also it's a 
> good platform for ARM to share our latest thinking and where we are going 
> with topics such as V8a and big.LITTLE.  However Connect morphs I'm keen to 
> have a route where I can keep this contact growing.  I also think it's a 
> unique place where we can demonstrate to members how Linaro is ideally 
> positioned to exploit the unique interaction with ARM SW eng' and Linaro.  
> E.g., join Linaro and you get to participate in key meetings with BOTH Linaro 
> and ARM experts available and it's a perfect way to bootstrap your dev. 
> Projects.  Happy to keep these closed to members only of $$$ to attend.  ???

I agree with Roger. For instance, the Android team was able to have
high bandwidth discussions and create and plan 3 cards as well as kick
off the work of those cards at Connect:

http://cards.linaro.org/browse/CARD-137 - Integrate ARMs browser
benchmarks into LAVA
http://cards.linaro.org/browse/CARD-136 - Integrate ARM's system
benchmarks into LAVA
http://cards.linaro.org/browse/CARD-136 - Linaro Android as a
Benchmarking Platform

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Barker [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 18 June 2012 22:53
> To: Joey STANFORD
> Cc: Deepak Saxena; Christian Robottom Reis; Paul Larson; Ricardo Salveti; 
> Loïc Minier; Mounir Bsaibes; Ilias Biris; TSC Operational Subcommittee; 
> Linaro Tech Leads; Proj Mgmt Mailing List
> Subject: Re: 2012q3 Linaro Connect (was: Re: What 2012Q3 means, was Re: 
> Explicit resourcing for cards, was Re: Proposal to improve the roadmap 
> process - PLANNED state)
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Joey STANFORD <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>> I'd like to expand on this and bring up that I think Connect needs to move
>>> away from planning based on individual teams to cross-organizational
>>> tracks. I think this will alleviate of the scheduling pressure we had this 
>>> time
>>> and create a more cohesive experience for everyone involved. So instead
>>> of having a bunch of random sessions in one day, we could have 3 tracks per
>>> day (ex: Android Upstreaming, Neon Optimizations, KVM) and we can have
>>> sessions from any groups that are relevant to that topic. This would mean
>>> that on certain days some groups may not have a session scheduled but
>>> I think that's OK.
>>
>> Interesting idea.
>>
>> Doing this has some advantages:
>>
>>  * You don't need summit's "maximize attendee session time" algorithm
>> and could get by fine without it.
>>
>>  * Topic based tracks pulls the entire organization together to work
>> on epic projects, which I suspect is the way we want to move to. It
>> points us towards organization goals vs individual and team goals.
>>
>>  * Since you're working on topics, the ability to callout what those
>> sessions are should become much easier and can be done much earlier.
>> This would also eliminate the need for the Sunday night "let's huddle
>> and fix the schedule" activity. Even if we kept it, I suspect it would
>> go dramatically quicker.
>>
>>  * We'd see a reduction in meeting rooms but an increase in
>> fishbowl/circular ballroom size rooms. Hangouts would be easier since
>> there would be less machines to care for each hour but we would have
>> need for additional microphones.
>>
>>
>> There is one big challenge I can see...
>>
>>  * Big rooms, lots of people, lots of interruptions.  50 minutes might
>> not be enough so perhaps we'd need to double the session time. This
>> would mean two large sessions per track per day (since we only do this
>> in the morning) for a total of 6 big sessions a day.  I often have
>> felt that a 50 minute session time is too short for productive work
>> anyway.   Basically we could run each session like a 2 hour
>> mini-summit.  Each session would likely need to have several topics
>> but that's par for course a lot of the time now.
>>
>>
>> I can accommodate networking, scheduler, and AV for this without a
>> problem.  It /might/ be difficult finding a place with larger style
>> rooms though. It's challenging to reconfigure the plenary style room
>> to something that work for this format.
>
> Isn't this basically how Linux Plumbers is run (with half-day
> microconferences), and don't we have some experts from the LPC
> planning committee available to us to find out how they do it
> (assuming this is actually what we want to do)?
>
> cheers,
> Jesse
>
>>
>> Joey
>
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