On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:40:27PM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Qiming Teng wrote: > >[...] > >Week 1: > > Wednesday-Friday: 3 days Summit. > > * Primarily an event for marketing, sales, CTOs, architects, > > operators, journalists, ... > > * Contributors can decide whether they want to attend this. > > Saturday-Sunday: > > * Social activities: contributors meet-up, hang outs ... > > > >Week 2: > > Monday-Wednesday: 3 days Design Summit > > * Primarily an event for developers. > > * Operators can hold meetups during these days, or join project > > design summits. > > > >If you need to attend both events, you don't need two trips. Scheduling > >both events by the end of a release cycle can help gather more > >meaningful feedbacks, experiences or lessons from previous releases and > >ensure a better plan for the coming release. > > > >If you want to attend just the main Summit or only the Design Summit, > >you can plan your trip accordingly. > > This was an option we considered. The main objection was that we are pretty > burnt out and ready to go home when comes Friday on a single-week event, so > the prospect of doing two consecutive weeks looked a bit like madness > (especially considering ancillary events like upstream training, the board > meeting etc. which tend to happen on the weekend before summit already). It > felt like a good way to reduce our productivity and not make the most of the > limited common time together. Furthermore it doesn't solve the issue of > suboptimal timing as described in my original email.
I'd wager a sizeable number of contributors would outright refuse to attend an event for 2 weeks. 6-7 days away from family is already a long time. As such, I would certainly never do any event which spanned 2 weeks, even if both weeks were relevant to my work. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| __________________________________________________________________________ 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