[openstack-dev] [nova] FYI, nova plans to have a room at the PTG in February

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Mon Oct 10 14:13:26 UTC 2016


Excerpts from Sean Dague's message of 2016-10-10 09:23:43 -0400:
> On 10/10/2016 08:37 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> <snip>
> > We had a lot of feedback that the unstructured discussion time from
> > the Friday "meetups" at the summits were the most productive time
> > for teams, but I'm sure there are quite a few cases like what you
> > describe. Maybe the solution is to schedule part, but not all, of
> > the PTG time?
> > 
> > It would be hard to say that a particular day is or is not scheduled,
> > because not all teams will have rooms available to them every day.
> > We could slice it the other way, though, and say that multi-project
> > topics should be scheduled in the morning. That still leaves all
> > of the afternoons for less structured discussions. Of course, not all
> > teams will necessarily have multi-project topics.
> > 
> > We could also just say, as I think Thierry was hinting at elsewhere
> > in this thread, that each team should publish its own schedule of
> > topics using some sort of unconference-like system (notecards on a
> > board, etherpad, whatever). That might make it harder to resolve
> > conflicts, though.
> > 
> > What do other folks think?
> 
> I feel like when we went down this path for the PTG, one of the
> assurances was that it would be unstructured time, like the midcycles,
> which is very productive. Having a long running etherpad is fine (and
> kind of expected), but I think building timeboxing in before the event
> seems odd.
> 
> There are so many unknowns here, but taking away one of the primary
> things that made midcycles productive for people in teams, to optimize
> for track hopping, seems odd.
> 
> If there are topics that span teams, there are 2 days up front. Ensuring
> there is space to expand topics into there would be good, and not just
> make those horizontal effort days.
> 
>     -Sean
> 

So you're proposing that we use time on Monday and Tuesday for
multi-project as well as cross-project discussions? That works for
me.  It may mean some folks who were planning to skip those and
arrive later in the week will show up earlier and participate in
more discussions.

Do we have space for those sorts of meetings on Monday and Tuesday?

Doug



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