On 02/22/2016 10:14 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Hi everyone, > > TL;DR: Let's split the events, starting after Barcelona. > > .... > > Comments, thoughts ?
Thierry (and Jay, who wrote a similar note much earlier in February, and Lauren, who added more clarity over on the marketing list, and the many, many of you who have spoken up in this thread ...), as a community guy, I have grave concerns about what the long-term effect of this move would be. I agree with your reasons, and the problems, but I worry that this is not the way to solve it. Summit is one time when we have an opportunity to hold community up to the folks that think only product - to show them how critical it is that the people that are on this mailing list are doing the awesome things that they're doing, in the upstream, in cooperation and collaboration with their competitors. I worry that splitting the two events would remove the community aspect from the conference. The conference would become more corporate, more product, and less project. My initial response was "crap, now I have to go to four events instead of two", but as I thought about it, it became clear that that wouldn't happen. I, and everyone else, would end up picking one event or the other, and the division between product and project would deepen. Summit, for me specifically, has frequently been at least as much about showing the community to the sales/marketing folks in my own company, as showing our wares to the customer. Now, I know you guys put on awesome events, and you have probably thought about this already. The proposal to have the events be back-to-back across a weekend may indeed address some of these concerns, at the cost of the "less expensive city and venue" part of the proposal, and at the cost of being away from my family over yet another weekend. Thank you for the obvious attention and concern that you're giving to this issue. I acknowledge the many growth pains that you're trying to solve with this, and I'm sure that whichever way you go, it'll be awesome. --Rich -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@redhat.com OpenStack Community Liaison http://rdoproject.org/ __________________________________________________________________________ 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