> I visited the Paris Design Summit space on Monday and confirmed that it > should be possible to split it in a way that would allow to have > per-program "contributors meetups" on the Friday. The schedule would go > as follows: > > Tuesday: cross-project workshops > Wednesday, Thursday: traditional "scheduled" slots > Friday: contributors meetups > > We'll also have "pods" available all 4 days for more ad-hoc small meetings.
Excellent :) > In the mean time, we need to discuss how we want to handle the selection > of session topics. > > In past summits we used a Design-Summit-specific "session suggestion" > website, and PTLs would approve/deny them. This setup grew less and less > useful: session topics were selected collaboratively on etherpads, > discussed in meetings, and finally filed/reorganized/merged on the > website just before scheduling. Furthermore, with even less "scheduled" > slots, we would have to reject most of the suggestions, which is more > frustrating for submitters than the positive experience of joining team > meetings to discuss which topics are the most important. Finally, topics > will need to be split between "scheduled" sessions and the "contributors > meetup" agenda, and that's easier to do on an Etherpad anyway. > > This is why I'd like to suggest that all programs use etherpads to > collect important topics, select which ones would get in the very few > "scheduled" slots we'll have left, which will get discussed in the > "contributors meetup", and which are better left for a "pod" discussion. > I suggest we all use IRC team meetings to collaboratively discuss that > content between interested contributors. > > To simplify the communication around this, I tried to collect the > already-announced etherpads on a single page at: > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Summit/Planning > > Please add any that I missed ! > > If you think this is wrong and think the "design summit suggestion" > website is a better way to do it, let me know why! If some programs > really can't stand the 'etherpad/IRC' approach I'll see how we can spin > up a limited instance. +1 on a collaborative scheduling process within each project. That's pretty much what we did within the ceilometer core group for the Juno summit, except that we used a googledocs spreadsheet instead of an etherpad. So I don't think we need to necessarily mandate usage of an etherpad, just let every project decide whatever shared document format they want to use. FTR the benefit of a googledocs spreadsheet in my view would include the ease of totalling votes & sessions slots, color-coding candidate sessions for merging etc. Cheers, Eoghan _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev