Excerpts from Brian Curtin's message of 2016-02-08 09:09:37 -0500: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Jay Pipes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would love to see the OpenStack contributor community take back the design > > summit to its original format and purpose and decouple it from the OpenStack > > Summit's conference portion. > > > > I believe the design summits should be organized by the OpenStack > > contributor community, not the OpenStack Foundation and its marketing and > > event planning staff. > > As someone who spent years organizing PyCon as a volunteer from the > Python community, with four of those years in a row taking about 8 > solid months of pre-conference effort, not to mention the on-site > effort to run a volunteer conference of that size [0]...I would > suggest even longer and harder thought before stretching a community > like this even more thinly. Things should change, but probably not the > "who's doing the work" aspect.
I wholeheartedly agree. Figuring out who is going to talk about what is the _least_ difficult and time consuming part of organizing a large event like we would need, even if it's just the contributor community*. If you think you can plan such an event, maintain your day job and sanity, and then focus on participating while you're at the event, you're wrong. If you want proof, I encourage you to get involved with an existing community-run conference. Even one of the small local events will give you a real education in just how much work it is. It has certainly given me a healthy respect for the amazing work the foundation event staff has been doing. Doug * Whatever the new event becomes, it should not have the word "developer" in the title. We have a lot of contributors who are not "developers". > > [0] PyCon is around 2500 (though with one paid staffer now), so maybe > larger than the target for the event you're thinking of, but it was > still a massive effort at the crowds of 2000, 1500, 1000, etc. and > being fully community driven. > __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
