On 02/25/2016 07:39 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:40:27PM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> Qiming Teng wrote: >>> [...] >>> Week 1: >>> Wednesday-Friday: 3 days Summit. >>> * Primarily an event for marketing, sales, CTOs, architects, >>> operators, journalists, ... >>> * Contributors can decide whether they want to attend this. >>> Saturday-Sunday: >>> * Social activities: contributors meet-up, hang outs ... >>> >>> Week 2: >>> Monday-Wednesday: 3 days Design Summit >>> * Primarily an event for developers. >>> * Operators can hold meetups during these days, or join project >>> design summits. >>> >>> If you need to attend both events, you don't need two trips. Scheduling >>> both events by the end of a release cycle can help gather more >>> meaningful feedbacks, experiences or lessons from previous releases and >>> ensure a better plan for the coming release. >>> >>> If you want to attend just the main Summit or only the Design Summit, >>> you can plan your trip accordingly. >> >> This was an option we considered. The main objection was that we are pretty >> burnt out and ready to go home when comes Friday on a single-week event, so >> the prospect of doing two consecutive weeks looked a bit like madness >> (especially considering ancillary events like upstream training, the board >> meeting etc. which tend to happen on the weekend before summit already). It >> felt like a good way to reduce our productivity and not make the most of the >> limited common time together. Furthermore it doesn't solve the issue of >> suboptimal timing as described in my original email. > > I'd wager a sizeable number of contributors would outright refuse to attend > an event for 2 weeks. 6-7 days away from family is already a long time. As > such, I would certainly never do any event which spanned 2 weeks, even if > both weeks were relevant to my work.
Agreed. For folks that need to get in time for the board meeting, the Summit is basically already an 8 day event (counting travel days). I know I wouldn't do back to back weeks. -Sean -- Sean Dague http://dague.net __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev