There was a lot of talk earlier about Seattle and there seemed to be a fair amount of interest.
Devin On May 3, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Stephen Spector wrote: > Team: > > As we all are interested in where the next event is located I thought I would > send out a recap of the meeting I had last week at the Design Summit: >> • October 2011 Event – We will again run a Conference and Design Summit >> the first week of October which is 2 weeks after the Diablo Release >> • The developers are all in agreement that having the business >> development folks is a plus >> • There was a discussion on holding the event during code >> freeze of Diablo but there are many complications to this idea >> • The event will be held in the US; looking at New York, >> Orlando, Boston >> • GOAL: Look at various options and have a facility chosen in >> late May ; Planning will start in June >> • Event Projection – This could easily be a 700+ person event >> with about 200 to 300 developers >> • 2012 Events >> • OpenStack User Event & Design Summit (April 2012) >> • Run a large User Event with the Design Summit running >> 1 or 2 days after start of User Event >> • Hold an exhibit hall for sponsors to promote their >> solutions to users >> • Event Projection - this could be a 1,000 to 2,000 >> person event based on how we promote, location we choose, etc >> • More discussion needed and location/date selection >> needs to occur this summer >> • OpenStack Conference and Design Summit (October 2012) >> • Target Europe or Asia for this event >> Finally, the marketing of the Conference and Design Summit needs more effort >> to clarify the Conference part being for the Ecosystem partners. I will work >> on this for our October event. > Location – I was thinking about New York, Montreal, Boston, Washington, D.C, > Orlando, etc and am focusing on Boston as it is a large technical hub similar > to Silicon Valley and believe we should continue to take advantage of the > local community of technologists to continue growing the event and promote > OpenStack. As for Europe, the consensus in the room was that we don't have > too many developers in Europe at this time and almost everyone would need to > travel which would increase costs across the community as well as limit the > number of developers who could attend as many companies are not allowing > international travel. > > I agree that holding the event in Japan would be optimal and that was the > original plan; however, we have some difficulties with high costs in Japan > and local event sponsorship at this time. The community in Japan is growing > but is not yet ready to put on an event. South Korea is another option; > however everyone will need to travel again and costs will be higher than the > US. Finally, Hawaii sounds great until you see the cost of a Diet Coke in a > hotel – it is just too expensive. > > Please feel free to add your thoughts on this discussion. 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 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
