Mark - missed this thread last week (vacation), sorry to post so late I agree with the 2 x events. I see Chips point, but those airfares across the Atlantic add up for folks and I think 2 will give us a greater number of people & community value overall. I think a good % of people will come to both and we shouldn't be scared of overlapping content
I'm happy to lend as much time/effort as needed to help get the Europe event rolling and I'm sure the other ShapeBlue guys will. I'll also discuss at our next European User group meetup (many of whom aren't on these lists) I don't know how last years Collab was organised, but could this be something that the eurpoeans (i.e. myself, Seb, Donal, Hugo, Wido, etc ) can have a more direct input on ? Kind Regards Giles D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 giles.sir...@shapeblue.com -----Original Message----- From: Mark Hinkle [mailto:mark.hin...@citrix.com] Sent: 26 February 2013 18:28 To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [Discuss] CloudStack Collab Summit 2013 On 2/25/13 9:02 AM, "Mohammad Nour El-Din" <nour.moham...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi > > >On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Sebastien Goasguen ><run...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I will be happy to help plan the one in Europe with my dutch buddies. >> >> We just need to agree on dates soon, so that we are not left in a >> time crunch planning a 600 people event in one month. >> > >I am also living in The NL and I want to help > > >> >> -sebastien >> >> >> On Feb 21, 2013, at 6:52 PM, Donal Lafferty >> <donal.laffe...@citrix.com> >> wrote: >> >> > APAC trends better than Europe (see >> http://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=cloudstack) Not sure if >> this means we need to create more awareness in Europe, or focus on >> interested parties in APAC. >> > >> > WRT to the Valley, where do integrators congregate? Our plugin >> > model >> seems to open up a lot of opportunity for writing support for new >>resources. >> > >> > OSCON piggyback? Had a lot of OpenStack presentations last year. >> > >> > >> > DL >> > >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Joe Brockmeier [mailto:j...@zonker.net] >> >> Sent: 21 February 2013 16:56 >> >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> >> Subject: Re: [Discuss] CloudStack Collab Summit 2013 >> >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013, at 09:43 AM, Chip Childers wrote: >> >>> 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? >> >> >> >> I think it's better, we can reach a lot of people who want to use >> CloudStack >> >> that might not be able to make a trip from Europe to the U.S. >> >> for a conference. I think it's at least worth doing this year to >> >> see >> the level of >> >> interest. >> >> >> >> Best, >> >> >> >> jzb >> >> -- >> >> Joe Brockmeier >> >> j...@zonker.net >> >> Twitter: @jzb >> >> http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ >> >> > > >-- >Thanks >- Mohammad Nour >---- >"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" >- Albert Einstein So to summarize the threadŠ I think the collective opinion is that we should do a CloudStack Collab Summit in EMEA this spring and since Hugo's got the resources to help plan in Amersterdam I think we should let him take the lead for that and Sebastien, Mohammed, Wido and the others that stepped up can help him. I'll volunteer to find the funding once he has a proposed venue and some costs and the PPMC and ConCom sign-off on the event. Also unless we get objections we'll plan for a second summit in North America in the fall and want to try to get that venue reserved it is very hard to find a place on short timeframes. I'll work to get the funding in place for that one too. To Chip's question on is two summits too many, I see a huge appetite for people to come talk about CloudStack.I think since all decisions are made on list it's not like you miss out by not going to both or either it's just nice to put faces to IRC nicks/email addies. Anything else? Mark ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting and implementation services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises to build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue’s expertise, combined with CloudStack technology, allows IT Service Providers and Enterprises to deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer or end-user. ________________________________ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales.
