Europe would be nice. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Stephen Spector < stephen.spec...@openstack.org> wrote:
> Developers: > > I have started early planning on the next OpenStack Design Summit in early > October 2011 this year and would like to get some feedback on location > options. The current thinking is to just host a Design Summit event for 3 > days without the associated Conference portion that we are doing next month > in Santa Clara. It is my intention to take this idea to the broader > community in the coming weeks but I need to gather some data from the > developers before I can put together a final proposal to the community, > > Location – My goal is to host the 3-day event in a gateway city so > attendees from Asia, Europe, and the US can easily fly directly to this > destination. This leads me to look at cities like New York, Chicago, London, > Paris, Seoul, etc except these locations tend to be expensive for hotels and > facilities. Other global cities such as Houston, Amsterdam, Frankfort, > Seattle, Atlanta, Dallas are cheaper locations for the event. Thus, I am > looking to see what locations are of interest to the developers; also > remember weather in October as a factor. > > Host – Having an event at a hotel is more expensive then finding a > corporate facility, university setting, or even co-locate with a conference. > I am open to any ideas you have about interesting facilities or events to > co-locate with as I want to ensure that we not only accomplish our goal of > setting the project's direction for the future releases but also provide an > excellent environment with top notch facilities. > > Feel free to provide your thoughts directly to myself via email or respond > to this email should you wish a broader conversation. Thanks. > - - - > Stephen Spector, Rackspace > OpenStack Community Manager > stephen.spec...@openstack.org > OpenStack Blog <http://openstack.org/blog>* | > *@opnstk_<http://twitter.com/opnstk_com_mgr> > com <http://twitter.com/opnstk_com_mgr>_mgr<http://twitter.com/opnstk_com_mgr> > *Office* +1 (512) 539-1162 | *Mobile* +1 (210) 415-0930 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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