On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Joe Gordon <joe.gord...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Michael Still <mi...@stillhq.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Just wanted to quickly weigh in with my thoughts on this important >> > topic. I >> > very much valued the face-to-face interaction that came from the >> > mid-cycle >> > meetup in Beaverton (it was the only one I've ever been to). >> > >> > That said, I do not believe it should be a requirement that cores make >> > it to >> > the face-to-face meetings in-person. A number of folks have brought up >> > very >> > valid concerns about personal/family time, travel costs and burnout. >> >> I'm not proposing they be a requirement. I am proposing that they be >> strongly encouraged. >> >> > I believe that the issue raised about furthering the divide between core >> > and >> > non-core folks is actually the biggest reason I don't support a mandate >> > to >> > have cores at the face-to-face meetings, and I think we should make our >> > best >> > efforts to support quality virtual meetings that can be done on a more >> > frequent basis than the face-to-face meetings that would be optional. >> >> I am all for online meetings, but we don't have a practical way to do >> them at the moment apart from IRC. Until someone has a concrete >> proposal that's been shown to work, I feel its a straw man argument. > > What about making it easier for remote people to participate at the > mid-cycle meetups? Set up some microphones and a Google hangout? At least > that way attending the mid-cycle is not all or nothing. > > We did something like this last cycle (IIRC we didn't have enough mics) and > it worked pretty well.
As I said, I'm open to experimenting, but I need someone other than me to own that. I'm simply too busy to get to it. However, I don't think we should throw away the thing that works for best for us now, until we have a working replacement. I'm very much in favour of work being done on a replacement though. Michael -- Rackspace Australia _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
