On 08/13/2014 11:31 PM, Michael Still wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Jay Pipes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just wanted to quickly weigh in with my thoughts on this important topic. I >> very much valued the face-to-face interaction that came from the mid-cycle >> meetup in Beaverton (it was the only one I've ever been to). >> >> That said, I do not believe it should be a requirement that cores make it to >> the face-to-face meetings in-person. A number of folks have brought up very >> valid concerns about personal/family time, travel costs and burnout. > > I'm not proposing they be a requirement. I am proposing that they be > strongly encouraged.
I'm not sure that's much different in reality. >> I believe that the issue raised about furthering the divide between core and >> non-core folks is actually the biggest reason I don't support a mandate to >> have cores at the face-to-face meetings, and I think we should make our best >> efforts to support quality virtual meetings that can be done on a more >> frequent basis than the face-to-face meetings that would be optional. > > I am all for online meetings, but we don't have a practical way to do > them at the moment apart from IRC. Until someone has a concrete > proposal that's been shown to work, I feel its a straw man argument. Yes, IRC is one option which we already use on a regular basis. We can also switch to voice communication for higher bandwidth when needed. We even have a conferencing server set up in OpenStack's infrastructure: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Conferencing In theory it even supports basic video conferencing, though I haven't tested it on this server yet. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
