Hi everyone, We need to start brainstorming topics we'd like to discuss with the rest of the community during our first "Forum" at the OpenStack Summit in Boston. The event should look a lot like the cross-project workshops or the Ops day at the old Design Summit : open, timeboxed discussions in a fishbowl setting facilitated by a moderator (no speaker or formal presentations). We'll gather feedback from users and operators on the Ocata release, and start gathering early requirements and priorities for the Queens release cycle. We aim to ensure the broadest coverage of topics that will allow for all parts of our community (upstream contributors, ops working groups, application developers...) getting together to discuss (and get alignment on) key areas within our community/projects.
Examples of the types of discussions and some sessions that might fit within each one: # Strategic, whole-of-community discussions: To think about the big picture, including beyond just one release cycle and new technologies. An example could be "Making OpenStack One Platform for containers/VMs/Bare Metal", where the entire community congregates to share opinions on how to make OpenStack achieve its integration engine goal. # Cross-project sessions: In a similar vein to what has happened at past design summits, but with increased emphasis on issues that are relevant to all areas of the community. An example could be "Rolling Upgrades at Scale", where the Large Deployments Team collaborates with Nova, Cinder and Keystone to tackle issues that come up with rolling upgrades when there’s a large number of machines. # Project-specific sessions: Where developers can ask users specific questions about their experience, users can provide feedback from the last release and cross-community collaboration on the priorities, and ‘blue sky’ ideas for the next release.An example could be "Neutron Pain Points", co-organized by neutron developers and users, where Neutron developers bring some specific questions they want answered, Neutron users bring feedback from the latest release and ideas about the future. There are two stages to the brainstorming: 1. Starting today, set up an etherpad with your group/team, or use one on the list and start discussing ideas you'd like to talk about at the Forum. Then, through +1s on etherpads and mailing list discussion, work out which ones are the most needed. 2. Then, in a couple of weeks, we will open up a more formal web-based tool for submission of abstracts that came out of the brainstorming on top. A committee with TC, UC and Foundation staff members will work on the final selection and scheduling. We expect working groups may make their own etherpads, however the Technical Committee offers one for cross-project and strategic topics: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BOS-TC-brainstorming Feel free to use that, or make one for your group and add it to the list at: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Forum/Boston2017 Thanks, Emilien and Thierry, on behalf of the Technical Committee __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
