On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Karen Vuong <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Giles, > > Answers are inline. > > From: Giles Sirett [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 10:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; David Nalley; sebastien goasguen > ([email protected]) > Subject: RE: [OPEN PLANNING MEETINGS] CloudStack Days 2015 > > > Hi Karen et al > > Its great to see this progressing > > I’m sure some of these things will get covered off in the planning meetings, > but these are a random set of thoughts/questions from me: > > > > 1. I fully support this new format, as I feel it allows us to reach a > much broader audience, but I think they are going to be quite different > events to CCC – more about attracting new people than the “existing” > community getting together. > > 2. does mean that the existing community people (i.e. us !) are > going to be spread thin at each event. To that extent, 5 x CFP’s is going to > to be some work > > 3. Have we any idea on the format? I notice on TLF website, that > theyre talking about a plenary morning and then breakouts. Have we any idea > how many sessions there are to fill at each one ? > > Angela will go over the logistics of the main meeting room and hackathon room > at the first meeting on March 10th. The number of sessions wanted, length of > sessions and selection of talks is entirely up to the community. We just > need to tell Angela what we would like to do J > > 4. My suggestion would be to give one person “lead” responsibility for > the CFP for each event. Yes, the actual selection can be done by a committee > (open to the whole community) but from experience it takes somebody to drum > up interest and herd the cats. > For example, I’d be happy to take the lead on Dublin, maybe David on > Austin,etc > > Currently, we have David Nalley taking the lead for the CloudStack Days > Austin CFP. Sebastien is taking the lead for CloudStack Days Budapest CFP. > The Japanese CloudStack User Group is taking the lead on CloudStack Days > Japan CFP. You are taking the lead for CloudStack Days Dublin CFP. We do need > one person to take the lead on CloudStack Days Seattle CFP – does anyone want > to take that? John Kinsella? J > > 5. Have we engaged with the guys in JPN ? – I’m sure they’ll have no > problem filling their day J > > Yes, we have engaged with the Japanese CloudStack User Group. Angela has > filled them in on Cloudstack Days Tokyo. She has ensured that they are aware > that CloudStack Days Tokyo is their event and the Linux Foundation is helping > with logistics. She’s doing an amazing job there. Noriaki Fukuyasu with the > Linux Foundation is going to help with sponsorships for CloudStack Days Tokyo. > > 6. To save work: maybe discuss having repeatable content for the > plenary ? If we can collectively work on that content, then its less of a > burden for whoever has got to stand up on the day > > Let’s discuss this during the first planning meeting so we can get a > consensus from everyone on the call. > > 7. It may be sensible to try and co-ordinate *who* from the existing > community is going to be at each event. > > 8. Risk: I initially had the thought that it would be nice if > PMC/committers all “aimed” for one of these events - so we could all get > together (which we may miss with this new format). In hindsight, I think that > could present a real risk to the success of the events (i.e. if committers, > etc all go to, say, Seattle, it may leave the others very short of people to > speak ,etc) > So, bad idea, but I have to ask the question: how do we stop that happening > anyway ? i.e. a critical mass building up around one of the events > My feeling is that folks will gravitate towards the closest conference for them. The risk is that we get a bit fragmented (so I actually am more worried about the exact opposite than you :) ) but the advantage is that we grow stronger regional communities > Let’s discuss this during the first meeting. > > > > Looking forward to the first meeting > > Great! I’ll forward you the calendar invitation now. > > > > > > Kind Regards > Giles > > D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 > [email protected] > > > > > From: Karen Vuong [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 26 February 2015 22:10 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; David Nalley; sebastien goasguen > ([email protected]) > Subject: [OPEN PLANNING MEETINGS] CloudStack Days 2015 > > > Hi all, > > The Linux Foundation will be helping the Apache CloudStack community with the > logistics for CloudStack Days 2015. There will be CloudStack Days Planning > meetings held every other Tuesday beginning on Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 > 9:00am – 9:40am Pacific. > > Open to the community - the planning calls are open to the community. Feel > free to share your feedback, ideas and suggestions on these calls. If you > would like to join, please send me a note and I will send you the meeting > invitation. > > CFP Committee – if you are an Apache CloudStack committer and would like to > volunteer to help review and vote on proposals for a specific CloudStack Day, > please reach out to Sebastien Goasguen and David Nalley (cc’d). The CFP for > CloudStack Days Austin will open next week. > > Sponsors – Cloud Foundry has signed up to sponsor all five CloudStack Days. > Thank you! There are several other companies that are currently considering. > Sponsorship prospectus can be found > here:http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-seattle/sponsor > > Registration – CloudStack Days 2015 is free to attend. > > Bi-monthly updates – I will be sending bi-monthly updates from the CloudStack > Days planning calls to the CloudStack marketing list. > > Meeting notes are located > here:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZnA88_UWyHjIVEZTBuC2JdgdTzdE2BgK2m98jiI7Uqc/edit?usp=sharing > > Websites: > > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-austin > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-tokyo > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-seattle > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-budapest > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-dublin > > Thanks, > > Karen > > > Find out more about ShapeBlue and our range of CloudStack related services > > IaaS Cloud Design & Build > CSForge – rapid IaaS deployment framework > CloudStack Consulting > CloudStack Software Engineering > CloudStack Infrastructure Support > CloudStack Bootcamp Training Courses > > This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended > solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. 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