On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 04:13:56PM +0800, Qiming Teng wrote: > Hi, All, > > After reading through all the +1's and -1's, we realized how difficult > it is to come up with a proposal that makes everyone happy. When we are > discussing this proposal with some other contributors, we came up with a > proposal which is a little bit different. This idea could be very > impractical, very naive, given that we don't know much about the huge > efforts behind the scheduling, planning, coordination ... etc etc. So, > please treat this as a random thought. > > Maybe we can still have the Summit and the Design Summit colocated, but > we can avoid the overlap that has been the source of many troubles. The > idea is to have both events scheduled by the end of a release cycle. For > example: > > Week 1: > Wednesday-Friday: 3 days Summit. > * Primarily an event for marketing, sales, CTOs, architects, > operators, journalists, ... > * Contributors can decide whether they want to attend this. > Saturday-Sunday: > * Social activities: contributors meet-up, hang outs ... > > Week 2: > Monday-Wednesday: 3 days Design Summit > * Primarily an event for developers. > * Operators can hold meetups during these days, or join project > design summits. > > If you need to attend both events, you don't need two trips. Scheduling > both events by the end of a release cycle can help gather more > meaningful feedbacks, experiences or lessons from previous releases and > ensure a better plan for the coming release. > > If you want to attend just the main Summit or only the Design Summit, > you can plan your trip accordingly. > > Thoughts? > > - Qiming >
This would eliminate the need for a second flight, and it would net be total less time away than attending two separate events. I could see this working. Sean > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 __________________________________________________________________________ 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
