Hi everyone, The PTG is just a few weeks away, and I wanted to discuss logistics a bit. As you probably know, we won't do any central scheduling, beyond assigning rooms to teams and days. Each team is free to arrange their time in their room in the way that is the most productive to them. You can find a list of the planning etherpads (as well as the day/team mapping) at:
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PTG/Pike/Etherpads That said, we still need a bit of centralized communication beyond each room, in particular to enable inter-team discussions and be able to attract specific people in your room to have specific discussions. Rather than use physical giant panels in a central place and loudspeakers PSAs, the current proposed plan is to go digital with: 1/ An event IRC channel (#openstack-ptg) The idea is to encourage all attendees to join that channel, and use it to facilitate pings from room to room, or do public service announcements across the event. It's probably also a good idea to have in every room at least one person monitoring the channel, able to relay urgent messages to the people in the room. 2/ An EtherCalc-powered dynamic schedule for the extra discussion rooms We'll have a number of extra rooms available. One fishbowl room where we can schedule any necessary inter-team discussion, but also a few dark rooms equipped with projectors and screens, for those moments where you really need to project something on a screen (event budget unfortunately did not allow us to have AV in every room). To facilitate that dynamic scheduling, the proposed plan is to use EtherCalc-powered spreadsheet tables. The Infra team is currently working on getting us an EtherCalc instance that we'll be able to use for that (and for everything else spreadsheets are better than plain text for). The idea would be to divide the day into 30-min bits and let people schedule stuff there. It's difficult to predict how those will be used, but if we realize there are just too many random teams booking that space, we'll probably have to give official teams and cross-project topics some priority. Any comment on those proposals ? Any other suggestion I could relay to the events team ? -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) __________________________________________________________________________ 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