On Feb 8, 2016, at 7:07 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> wrote: > > Brian Curtin wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I would love to see the OpenStack contributor community take back the design >>> summit to its original format and purpose and decouple it from the OpenStack >>> Summit's conference portion. >>> >>> I believe the design summits should be organized by the OpenStack >>> contributor community, not the OpenStack Foundation and its marketing and >>> event planning staff. >> >> As someone who spent years organizing PyCon as a volunteer from the >> Python community, with four of those years in a row taking about 8 >> solid months of pre-conference effort, not to mention the on-site >> effort to run a volunteer conference of that size [0]...I would >> suggest even longer and harder thought before stretching a community >> like this even more thinly. Things should change, but probably not the >> "who's doing the work" aspect. > > Beyond stretching out the community, we would end up with the same problem we > are trying to solve. Most of the cross-project folks that would end up > organizing the event would be too busy organizing the event to be able to > fully participate in it.
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