---- On Tue, 06 Nov 2018 05:50:03 +0900 Dmitry Tantsur <dtant...@redhat.com> wrote ---- > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 20:07 Julia Kreger <juliaashleykre...@gmail.com wrote: > *removes all of the hats* > *removes years of dust from unrelated event planning hat, and puts it on for > a moment* > > In my experience, events of any nature where convention venue space is > involved, are essentially set in stone before being publicly advertised as > contracts are put in place for hotel room booking blocks as well as the > convention venue space. These spaces are also typically in a relatively high > demand limiting the access and available times to schedule. Often venues > also give preference (and sometimes even better group discounts) to repeat > events as they are typically a known entity and will have somewhat known > needs so the venue and hotel(s) can staff appropriately. > > tl;dr, I personally wouldn't expect any changes to be possible at this point. > > *removes event planning hat of past life, puts personal scheduling hat on* > I imagine that as a community, it is near impossible to schedule something > avoiding holidays for everyone in the community. > > I'm not taking about everyone. And I'm mostly fine with my holiday, but the > conflicts with Russia and Japan seem huge. This certainly does not help our > effort to engage people outside of NA/EU. > Quick googling suggests that the week of May 13th would have much fewer > conflicts. > > I personally have lost count of the number of holidays and special days that > I've spent on business trips over the past four years. While I may be an > out-lier in my feelings on this subject, I'm not upset, annoyed, or even > bitter about lost times. This community is part of my family. > > Sure :) > But outside of our small nice circle there is a huge world of people who may > not share our feeling and the level of commitment to openstack. These > occasional contributors we talked about when discussing the cycle length. I > don't think asking them to abandon 3-5 days of holidays is a productive way > to engage them. > And again, as much as I love meeting you all, I think we're outgrowing the > format of these meetings.. > Dmitry
Yeah, in case of Japan it is full week holiday starting from April 29th. I remember most of the May summits did not conflict with Golden week but this is. I am not sure if any solution to this now but we should consider such things in future. -gmann > > -Julia > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:19 AM Dmitry Tantsur <dtant...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Not sure how official the information about the next summit is, but it's on > the > web site [1], so I guess worth asking.. > > Are we planning for the summit to overlap with the May holidays? The 1st of > May > is a holiday in big part of the world. We ask people to skip it in addition > to > 3+ weekend days they'll have to spend working and traveling. > > To make it worse, 1-3 May are holidays in Russia this time. To make it even > worse than worse, the week of 29th is the Golden Week in Japan [2]. Was it > considered? Is it possible to move the days to less conflicting time > (mid-May > maybe)? > > Dmitry > > [1] https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019/ > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Week_(Japan) > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
