On 29 November 2017 at 03:20, Masayuki Igawa <masayuki.ig...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/28, Ghanshyam Mann wrote: >> Mon-Tue/Wed-Fri works as most suitable format. There are always >> conflict for many of us but that can be adjusted by working with team >> planning. >> >> Another thing can help is to give flexibility to team to have team >> topic even on Mon-Tue, which mean team need dedicated room on Mon-Tue >> also. For example, if QA want to discuss few of the topic on Mon-Tue >> and have Code sprint/Help room etc on rest of week. This can help me >> or other QA members to join other team discussion on Wed-Fri. But that >> is based on special request and team requirement of number of topics >> to discuss. >> >> morning/afternoon format will be little hectic and less productive due >> to changing rooms and topic etc, at least for me :) > > Yeah, I totally agree with that. Regarding to the QA team members, > most of members are not dedicated to the upstream work. So, if we can > concentrate on it during the rest of 3 days, the days could be really > productive. And I felt it in the past PTG. > > -- Masayuki > > >> >> -gmann >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> >> wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > We are in the final step in the process of signing the contract with the >> > PTG venue. We should be able to announce the location this week ! >> > >> > So it's time to start preparing. We'll have 5 days, like in Denver. One >> > thing we'd like to change for this round is to give a bit more >> > flexibility in the topics being discussed, especially in the first two >> > days. >> > >> > In Denver, we selected a number of general "themes" and gave them all a >> > room for 2 days on Monday-Tuesday. Then all the "teams" that wanted a >> > project team meeting could get a room for 2 or 3 days on >> > Wednesday-Friday. That resulted in a bit of flux during the first two >> > days, with a lot of empty rooms as most of the themes did not really >> > need 2 days, and a lot of conflicts were present. >> > >> > For Dublin, the idea would be to still predetermine topics (themes and >> > teams) and assign them rooms in advance. But we would be able to assign >> > smaller amounts of time (per half-day) based on the expressed needs. >> > Beyond those pre-assigned themes/teams we'd add flexibility for other >> > groups to book the remaining available rooms in 90-min slots on-demand. >> > A bit like how we did reservable rooms in the past, but more integrated >> > with the rest of the event. It would all be driven by the PTGbot, which >> > would show which topic is being discussed in which room, in addition to >> > the current discussion subject within each topic. >> > >> > We have two options in how we do the split for predetermined topics. We >> > used to split the week between Mon-Tue (themes) and Wed-Fri (teams). The >> > general idea there was to allow some people only interested in a team >> > meeting to only attend the second part of the week. However most people >> > attend all 5 days, and during event feedback some people suggested that >> > "themes" should be in the mornings and "teams" in the afternoons (and >> > all Friday). >> > >> > What would be your preference ? The Mon-Tue/Wed-Fri split means less >> > room changes, which make it easier on the events team. So all else being >> > equal we'd rather keep it the way it is, but I'm open to changing it if >> > attendees think it's a good idea. >> > >> > If you have any other suggestion (that we could implement in the 3 >> > months we have between now and the event) please let me know :) >> > >> > -- >> > Thierry Carrez (ttx) >> > >> > __________________________________________________________________________ >> > 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 >
I like the 2+3 days format. I'd prefer that to fragmenting. If people want to roam around they are free. On top of that PTG bot is a helper to find what's going to happen next. I heard once (ok, maybe more than once): "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"! Best regards, JP __________________________________________________________________________ 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