On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wanted to quickly weigh in with my thoughts on this important topic. I > very much valued the face-to-face interaction that came from the mid-cycle > meetup in Beaverton (it was the only one I've ever been to). > > That said, I do not believe it should be a requirement that cores make it to > the face-to-face meetings in-person. A number of folks have brought up very > valid concerns about personal/family time, travel costs and burnout. I'm not proposing they be a requirement. I am proposing that they be strongly encouraged. > I believe that the issue raised about furthering the divide between core and > non-core folks is actually the biggest reason I don't support a mandate to > have cores at the face-to-face meetings, and I think we should make our best > efforts to support quality virtual meetings that can be done on a more > frequent basis than the face-to-face meetings that would be optional. I am all for online meetings, but we don't have a practical way to do them at the moment apart from IRC. Until someone has a concrete proposal that's been shown to work, I feel its a straw man argument. Michael -- Rackspace Australia _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
