On 12/22/2013 12:49 PM, rob_hirschf...@dell.com wrote: > I’d like to repeat a suggestion at the Design Summit wrap up – it’s a > bit different, so patience… > > > > My suggestion was to insert a day “break” into the four day Design > Summit for users/operations. Effectively, we’d have a four day design > summit with Monday+Tuesday - break for user/ops conf – > Thursday+Friday. This would allow the developers and PTLs to join in > the conference parts of the summit without needed a distinct event. > The regular non-design conference could be held Tuesday-Thursday so > there’s a specific overlap day when 100% of the community would be together. > > > > I felt like this allows ideas from the summit to be socialized with > users/operator before we commit to them. I also felt that it makes the > developers more accessible. Finally, it creates a break/reflection from > the intensity of the design. > > > > To recap, 4 day design, 3 day user/ops conference spanning 5 days.
Honestly I'd be pretty -1 on that idea. There is a certain momentum that builds inside the design summit sessions that 2 hard context switches like that would really hurt. If you've ever spent time in the Nova track you can see this in spades. I think one of the missing things for folks that don't spend all their time in Design Summit is realizing that DS is really the *middle* of the conversation, not that start of one. I actually think this is where folks new to design summit tend to flail a little be in their sessions. My goals for design summit, and my tracks, were set weeks in advance, and there was very little new here, it was mostly about working through the sticky details on things we largely were already working on, and exposing some of that work to a wider audience which drags in new volunteers. So the User / Ops day at Summit is far too late to impact that release cycle. That interaction needs to come 3+ weeks before Design Summit to be effective on that cycle. Because if it's later than that, it's just too much to digest at a point where the plates are already overflowing. The key developers are already about 200% booked at Summits at this point, which is actually why *more* OpenStack PTLs spoke at LinuxCon NA this year than at OpenStack Summit HK. For instance, I only wandered out side of Design Summit twice, when I was on stage. And I didn't even get a chance to go to any of the public parties, as I was booked every single night at summit - weeks in advance. So I think that all those folks are pretty open to getting more engaged with Users / Ops (I know I am), but the existing Summit structure isn't going to allow that. Making people 250% booked at Summit isn't going to really be a successful way to handle this. I'm far more positive on something mid cycle, preferably at other conferences that we expected there to be OpenStack folks at to begin with. -Sean -- Sean Dague Samsung Research America s...@dague.net / sean.da...@samsung.com http://dague.net
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