I think having them so far apart (geographically) makes it ok. I would love to be a part of the silicon valley one. And I think there is a large part of the community that feels left out if we only hold official events in NA.
Based on social rumblings, and IDCs interesting figures, I think interest is quite high going into 2013. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 21, 2013, at 7:43 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 04:20:44PM -0500, Mark Hinkle wrote: >> Given that we are part of the way into 2013 I thought I would bring up the >> topic of the CloudStack Collab Summit(s) for this year. I am willing to put >> up the sponsorship to secure a venue and get the ball rolling. I also hear >> rumblings of folks willing to help do a CloudStack Collaboration Summit in >> Amsterdam as well. >> >> For CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 we were at capacity at 300 >> attendees and we had a waiting list. I am thinking that we will want to have >> space for at least 600 for the next event. >> >> I would like to propose a CloudStack Collab Summit in Silicon Valley this >> spring (May?) and one in the fall in Europe in Amsterdam(November?). If we >> don't get any significant objections I'll be glad to work on a proposal >> similar to last time and get the blessing of the PPMC and the Apache Events >> Committee. Comments, feedback,flames? >> >> Regards, >> >> Mark R. Hinkle >> Senior Director, Cloud Computing Community >> Citrix Systems >> e: mark.hin...@citrix.com >> twitter: @mrhinkle >> > > I'm slightly concerned about the idea of doing this twice a year. I'm > certainly no event management expert, but does that dilute the > interest? Or is it better, due to being able to hold it in different > geographies? > > -chip
