+1 as well for Seattle. October weather is good, airport access is good, conference facilities are plentiful. -C
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:52 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 | @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 > > -- Christopher Brown, Chief Technical Officer, Opscode, Inc. T: (425) 502-5522, E: c...@opscode.com IRC, Github: skeptomai Twitter: @skeptomai _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
