Hi everyone, The Large Scale SIG has organized several popular OpenInfra Live episodes over the past years, originally around specific operational challenges, then deep-diving into a specific deployment presented by a guest. Those were pretty successful, but the format had some painful constraints: it had to happen on Thursdays around 14utc, it required a lot of preparation so that the resulting discussion had enough quality to be posted on YouTube, etc. The end result is that the Large Scale SIG crew was only able to organize a few of those per year. In parallel, we witnessed reduced attendance on the SIG IRC meeting: the barrier to participation for people not already engaged in the community seems too high, so the SIG fails in its objective to engage with new deployments seeking guidance on their scaling journey. I'd like to try a different format for the Epoxy cycle. The SIG team will identify a large scale OpenStack user, ideally one that is not engaged in the community yet, and invite them to join a Jitsi video meeting at a convenient time for them, where they can present their deployment to fellow large scale operators, ask and answer questions in a free-form discussion. The meetup will be announced on this mailing-list so that anyone interested can join. Compared to OpenInfra Live, we'll be able to run those more often and on shorter notice, and the goal is not to produce high quality content to be watched on YouTube, but rather to have a useful discussion and bootstrap new user engagement with a friendly community. The SIG core team will continue to meet monthly on IRC to discuss those and distill their learnings into documentation, but the primary way for newcomers to engage with the SIG would be to join those virtual meetups. Let me know if you have any comment or thought about this idea! -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)