Hangouts worked well at the nova mid-cycle meetup. Just make sure you have your network situation sorted out before hand. Bandwidth and firewalls are what comes to mind immediately.
-Mike On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Tom Creighton <tom.creigh...@rackspace.com>wrote: > When the Designate team had their mini-summit, they had an open Google > Hangout for remote participants. We could even have an open conference > bridge if you are not partial to video conferencing. With the issue of > inclusion solved, let's focus on a date that is good for the team! > > Cheers, > > Tom Creighton > > > On Mar 10, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Edgar Magana <emag...@plumgrid.com> wrote: > > > Eugene, > > > > A have a few arguments why I believe this is not 100% inclusive > > * Is the foundation involved on this process? How? What is the > budget? Who is the responsible from the foundation side? > > * If somebody made already travel arraignments, it won't be > possible to make changes at not cost. > > * Staying extra days in a different city could impact anyone's > budget > > * As a OpenStack developer. I want to understand why the summit is > not enough for deciding the next steps for each project. If that is the > case, I would prefer to make changes on the organization of the summit > instead of creating mini-summits all around! > > I could continue but I think these are good enough. > > > > I could agree with your point about previous summits being distractive > for developers, this is why this time the OpenStack foundation is trying > very hard to allocate specific days for the conference and specific days > for the summit. > > The point that I am totally agree with you is that we SHOULD NOT have > session about work that will be done no matter what! Those are just a > waste of good time that could be invested in very interesting discussions > about topics that are still not clear. > > I would recommend that you express this opinion to Mark. He is the right > guy to decide which sessions will bring interesting discussions and which > ones will be just a declaration of intents. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Edgar > > > > From: Eugene Nikanorov <enikano...@mirantis.com> > > Reply-To: OpenStack List <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > > Date: Monday, March 10, 2014 10:32 AM > > To: OpenStack List <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS] Mini-summit Interest? > > > > Hi Edgar, > > > > I'm neutral to the suggestion of mini summit at this point. > > Why do you think it will exclude developers? > > If we keep it 1-3 days prior to OS Summit in Atlanta (e.g. in the same > city) that would allow anyone who joins OS Summit to save on extra > travelling. > > OS Summit itself is too distractive to have really productive > discussions, unless your missing the sessions and spend time discussing. > > For instance design sessions basically only good for declaration of > intents, but not for real discussion of a complex topic at meaningful > detail level. > > > > What would be your suggestions to make this more inclusive? > > I think the time and place is the key here - hence Atlanta and few days > prior OS summit. > > > > Thanks, > > Eugene. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Edgar Magana <emag...@plumgrid.com> > wrote: > >> Team, > >> > >> I found that having a mini-summit with a very short notice means > excluding > >> a lot of developers of such an interesting topic for Neutron. > >> The OpenStack summit is the opportunity for all developers to come > >> together and discuss the next steps, there are many developers that CAN > >> NOT afford another trip for a "special" summit. I am personally against > >> that and I do support Mark's proposal of having all the conversation > over > >> IRC and mailing list. > >> > >> Please, do not start excluding people that won't be able to attend > another > >> face-to-face meeting besides the summit. I believe that these are the > >> little things that make an open source community weak if we do not > control > >> it. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Edgar > >> > >> > >> On 3/6/14 9:51 PM, "Mark McClain" <mmccl...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > >> > >> > > >> >On Mar 6, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 21:14 +0000, Youcef Laribi wrote: > >> >>> +1 > >> >>> > >> >>> I think if we can have it before the Juno summit, we can take > >> >>> concrete, well thought-out proposals to the community at the summit. > >> >> > >> >> Unless something has changed starting at the Hong Kong design summit > >> >> (which unfortunately I was not able to attend), the design summits > have > >> >> always been a place to gather to *discuss* and *debate* proposed > >> >> blueprints and design specs. It has never been about a gathering to > >> >> rubber-stamp proposals that have already been hashed out in private > >> >> somewhere else. > >> > > >> >You are correct that is the goal of the design summit. While I do > think > >> >it is wise to discuss the next steps with LBaaS at this point in time, > I > >> >am not a proponent of in person mini-design summits. Many contributors > >> >to LBaaS are distributed all over the global, and scheduling a mini > >> >summit with short notice will exclude valuable contributors to the > team. > >> >I¹d prefer to see an open process with discussions on the mailing list > >> >and specially scheduled IRC meetings to discuss the ideas. > >> > > >> >mark > >> > > >> > > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >OpenStack-dev mailing list > >> >OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > >> >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> OpenStack-dev mailing list > >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing > list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenStack-dev mailing list > > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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