Eoghan Glynn wrote:
Thanks for the proposal, just a few questions:
* how would we achieve a "scaled-down design summit in Barcelona"? i.e.
what would be the forcing function to ensure fewer contributors attend,
given that some people will already be making plans?
Exactly how much the Barcelona Design Summit will be scaled down is
still an open question. If Ocata ends up being a shorter cycle, there
should be less design discussions needed (especially if some projects
opt to turn Ocata into a "stabilization cycle"). As a result there
should be less space requests and we should be able to "scale down" to
using slightly less rooms.
* would free passes continue to be issued to all ATCs, for *both* the
conference and the contributor event? (absent cross-subsidization at
the latter event from non-ATC attendees paying full whack)
The contributor event would likely be free for existing contributors to
attend. Then the idea would be to offer a discount to attend the main
summit to any person that was physically present at the contributors
event. That should help control the costs for those who want to attend
them all.
* if reducing travel costs is part of the aim here, would it be wise not
to hold the second contributor event per-year in mid-August, when in
Europe at least the cost of flights and hotels spike upwards and the
availability of individual contributors tends to plummet due to PTO.
* would it better to keep the ocata cycle at a more normal length, and
then run the "contributor events" in Mar/Sept, as opposed to Feb/Aug?
(again to avoid the August black hole)
This is a good point. The reason February / August were picked is that
the dates for the main summits in 2017 are already ~known (see picture)
and placing (for example) the P contributors event in early September
means the summit would happen before the middle of the dev cycle, when
it's too early to start discussing requirements for the next cycle.
It's still an option though... And over the long run nothing prevents us
from moving the summit more toward the end of November / start of
December and end of May / start of June, to allow for a start of March /
start of September contributors event.
I expect we'll have a session in Austin to discuss all this.
* instead of collocating any surviving mid-cycles with the more glitzy
conference-style event (which seems to run counter to the midcycle
ethos AIUI), why not allow these to continue running per-project in
unofficial mode in donated office space? (if projects consider them
still needed)
We can't really prevent people from organizing those anyway :) I just
hope social in-person team gatherings will not be needed as much with
this split. What may still be needed are mid-cycle "sprints" to achieve
specific objectives: those could happen in hackathon space at the main
summit, in donated office space, or online.
--
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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