On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would love to see the OpenStack contributor community take back the design > summit to its original format and purpose and decouple it from the OpenStack > Summit's conference portion. > > I believe the design summits should be organized by the OpenStack > contributor community, not the OpenStack Foundation and its marketing and > event planning staff.
As someone who spent years organizing PyCon as a volunteer from the Python community, with four of those years in a row taking about 8 solid months of pre-conference effort, not to mention the on-site effort to run a volunteer conference of that size [0]...I would suggest even longer and harder thought before stretching a community like this even more thinly. Things should change, but probably not the "who's doing the work" aspect. [0] PyCon is around 2500 (though with one paid staffer now), so maybe larger than the target for the event you're thinking of, but it was still a massive effort at the crowds of 2000, 1500, 1000, etc. and being fully community driven. __________________________________________________________________________ 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
