Hi All, Replying inline as well.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:56 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 > What Karen said is accurate. I realize the websites currently say 'plenary sessions in the morning and user/developer breakouts in the afternoon' which needs to be updated. We have a plenary room and smaller hackathon room available at each event (though the hackathon room could technically be a breakout room). > 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 > > Let’s discuss this during the first meeting. > > > > Looking forward to the first meeting > > Great! I’ll forward you the calendar invitation now. > Thanks, Angela > > > > > Kind Regards > > Giles > > > > D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 > > [email protected] <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > *From:* Karen Vuong [mailto:[email protected] > <[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 10 > th, 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. 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