I've decided [1] that I'm going to resist going to tech conferences and summits in particular by air travel, unless it becomes an existential issue. For a variety of reasons described in [1] and the two other posts it links to. I know for some people that this will present some concerns about my efficacy as PTL of placement, so I thought I better mention it sooner than later so we can make some decisions on how we want to proceed: * Should I take myself out of the running for U PTL? In which case we need to get a shadow warmed up. * If I'm not there, but still PTL, should we still hold the usual regularly placement things (project update and onboarding, PTG things)? In which case we need to prepare chairs/moderators for those sessions. Given my positions on the exclusive properties of conferences, I'd prefer that we turn update and onboarding activities into asynchronous, document-oriented affairs that anyone can utilize at any time, not just those wanting and able to go to summit. Similarly, given how useful the placement pre-PTG was for Train, the very small amount of time spent discussing placement issues in person in Denver, and the team's strategy of focusing on a relatively small number of changes, I'm not certain we need "time" in Shanghai. We can spread that work out. Thoughts or questions from anyone? [1] https://anticdent.org/remote-maintainership.html -- Chris Dent ٩◔̯◔۶ https://anticdent.org/ freenode: cdent