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<div>I pretty much agree with everyone so far. No vendor booths, distributed “underwriters”, modest registration fee, and sans evening event. Not sure separate regional meetings are a good idea, but would be in favor of alternating North America vs. other
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<div>I’ve been looking for approximate meal sponsorship costs, too. We may have funds available for some sort of underwriting as well, but the first question I get when going to ask for that is “how much $?” So it’s difficult to get sponsorship commitments
without those details. Could you let us know some ballpark figures based on past events, so we have some more data points?</div>
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<div>Thanks!!</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Jesse Keating<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 1:06 PM<br>
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<div dir="ltr">RE Evening event: I agree it was pretty crowded. Perhaps just a list of area venues for various activities and a sign up board somewhere. Let it happen organically, and everybody is on their own for paying for whatever they do. That way those
that may not be into the bar scene don't feel left out because everybody else went and got drink/food. Lets eliminate the social pressure to put everybody into the same social event.</div>
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<div>My votes line up with Dave's and Joe's pretty much.</div>
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I think that vendor booth's are a bad idea as well.
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<div>As for registration, I think having a fee that covers the meals/coffee is fair. This is not a typical walk in off the street meeting. I don't think many companies would balk at an extra $100-$200 fee for registration. Especially if you're already paying
for travel like 99% of us will be doing. I'm also +1 canceling the evening event to cut costs, it was overcrowded last time and with 300 people will be unmanageable.</div>
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<div>Tom, What is the actual per-head price range for meals?</div>
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<div>-1 on paid registration, I think we need to be mindful of the smaller openstack deployers, their voice is an important one, and their access to the larger operations teams is invaluable to them. I like the idea of local teams showing up because it's in
the neighborhood and they don't need to hassle their budgeting managers too much for travel approval / expenses. This is more accessible currently than the summits for many operators. Let's keep it that way.</div>
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<div>I understand your point.</div>
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<div>IMO, the Ops mid-cycle meetup is a little different than a normal local meetup you'll find at
<a href="http://meetup.com" target="_blank">meetup.com</a>. It's a multi-day event that includes meals and an evening event. Being able to attend for free, while a great goal, may not be practical. I would not imagine that the fee would be as much as a Summit
ticket, nor even broken down to the daily cost of a Summit ticket. I see it as something that would go toward the cost of food and such.<br>
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<div>The OpenStack foundation does a lot to ensure that people who are unable to pay registration fees are still able to attend summits. The same courtesy could be extended here as well. As an example, David M has mentioned that TWC may help (I understand that
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