On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Michael Still <mi...@stillhq.com> wrote:
> 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. > What about making it easier for remote people to participate at the mid-cycle meetups? Set up some microphones and a Google hangout? At least that way attending the mid-cycle is not all or nothing. We did something like this last cycle (IIRC we didn't have enough mics) and it worked pretty well. > > Michael > > -- > Rackspace Australia > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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