On 6/5/2018 7:31 AM, Sean McGinnis wrote:
On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 11:21:16AM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
Jay Pipes wrote:
On 06/04/2018 05:02 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
[...]>
Personally, I've very much enjoyed the separate PTGs because I've actually
been able to get work done at them; something that was much harder when the
design summits were part of the overall conference.
Right, the trick is to try to preserve that productivity while making it
easier to travel to... One way would be to make sure the PTG remains a
separate event (separate days, separate venues, separate registration),
just co-located in same city and week.
[...]
There are a few plans under consideration, and no firm decisions
have been made, yet. We discussed a strawman proposal to combine
the summit and PTG in April, in Denver, that would look much like
our older Summit events (from the Folsom/Grizzly time frame) with
a few days of conference and a few days of design summit, with some
overlap in the middle of the week. The dates, overlap, and
arrangements will depend on venue availability.
Has the option of doing a single conference a year been addressed? Seems
to me that we (the collective we) could save a lot of money not having
to put on multiple giant events per year and instead have one.
Yes, the same strawman proposal included the idea of leveraging an
existing international "OpenStack Day" event and raising its profile
rather than organizing a full second summit every year. The second PTG
of the year could then be kept as a separate event, or put next to that
"upgraded" OpenStack Day.
I actually really like this idea. As things slow down, there just aren't enough
of big splashy new things to announce every 6 months. I think it could work
well to have one Summit a year, while using the OSD events as a way to reach
those folks that can't make it to the one big event for the year due to timing
or location.
It could help concentrate efforts to have bigger goals ready by the Summit and
keep things on a better cadence. And if we can still do a PTG-like event along
side one of the OSD events, it would allow development to still get the
valuable face-to-face time that we've come to expect.
I think going to one large summit event a year could be good with a
co-located PTG type event. I think, however, that we would still need
to have a Separate PTG type event at some other point in the year. I
think it is going to be hard to keep development momentum going in the
projects without a couple of face-to-face meetings a year.
Thinking on this is still very much work in progress.
--
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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