> On Feb 11, 2015, at 11:15 AM, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > > On 2015-02-11 11:31:13 +0000 (+0000), Kuvaja, Erno wrote: > [...] >> If you don't belong to the group of privileged living in the area >> and receiving free ticket somehow or company paying your >> participation you're not included. $600 + travel + accommodation >> is quite hefty premium to be included, not really FOSS. > [...] > > Here I have to respectfully disagree. Anyone who uploads a change to > an official OpenStack source code repository for review and has it > approved/merged since Juno release day gets a 100% discount comp > voucher for the full conference and design summit coming up in May. > In addition, much like a lot of other large free software projects > do for their conferences, the OpenStack Foundation sets aside > funding[1] to cover travel and lodging for participants who need it. > Let's (continue to) make sure this _is_ "really FOSS," and that any > of our contributors who want to be involved can be involved. > > [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Travel_Support_Program
For whatever it's worth, I totally agree that the summits don't make Openstack "not really FOSS" and I think the travel program is great, but I do just want to point out (as someone for whom travel is not monetarily dificult, but logistically) that decision making which requires travel can be exclusive. I don't personally get too bothered by it but it feels like maybe the fundamental issue that some are expericing is when there are decisions being made via a single channel, regardless of if that channel is a phone call, IRC, a mailing list, or a design summit. The more channels any particular decision involves the more likely it is nobody is going to feel like they didn't get a chance to participate. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev