<div dir="ltr">Good feedback David. I think we'd all agree that the Austin room layout for that session was totally wrong for what we were trying to do :) The overall maximum numbers have a pretty big impact on secondary room sizes, depending on how many tracks you try to have, which is one of the reasons why we're trying to get a bit of consensus here. My personal view is also that two tracks is a good number, along with breakouts for specific working groups, so that people don't end up missing out too much on things where they have a schedule conflict. Funding travel is a big deal for most operators, given we also have two summits a year, so maximising useful time is a good thing. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 June 2016 at 20:29, David Medberry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openstack@medberry.net" target="_blank">openstack@medberry.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Matt Jarvis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt.jarvis@datacentred.co.uk" target="_blank">matt.jarvis@datacentred.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div></div><div><br></div><div>The general consensus in the discussions we've had, and from the Austin summit sessions and the Manchester feedback session, is that between 150-200 attendees should be the maximum size. </div><div></div></blockquote></div><br></span>Two comments, points</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">1) The last day of the Austin summit, ops had their own room. It was very poorly organized and had about 40ish seats and another 10-20 people on the floor. Even with just 40ish before it got SROd, it was difficult (again, primarily because of the layout) to keep to one conversation and have everyone interested participate. That said, I think the layouts we've had for the Mid-Cycles I've been to are more amenable to discussion with kind of podium and audience layout.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">2) I think with that podium/audience layout 200 is doable 300 is probably max. We'll still need quite a few 2ary rooms of at least 20 people size to make progress in breakouts.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So, I'm 300ish max.</div></div>
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