On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Jay Pipes <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip] > Many contributors submit talks to speak at the conference part of an > OpenStack Summit because their company says it's the only way they will pay > for them to attend the design summit. This is, IMHO, a terrible thing. The > design summit is a *working* event. Companies that contribute to OpenStack > projects should send their engineers to working events because that is > where work is done, not so that their engineer can go give a talk about > some vendor's agenda-item or newfangled product. > [snip] I mostly agree with you on the points you make, but I want to call out this bit specifically. We live in a world in which we have trouble getting employers to send people to our extremely cost conscious mid-cycles. Do we really think that those people will be able to come to design summits if there isn't a user conference to "drag" their attendance? The data certainly says that we get more people at nova design summit sessions than we do at mid-cycles currently. I'd want concrete reassurances that the right people would be able to come to the redesigned thing before I'd want to change. Michael -- Rackspace Australia
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