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I should note that I will not be able to attend the HK summit, although it's a personal decision based on bad timing and not anything else.  I'm usually an active participant in the summits (on the nova tracks) and generally consider myself a "critical member" of the community -- whatever that means. :)

I really would like to be able to participate remotely.  I have been making an assumption that it's just not going to be possible in a useful manner.   And I think we'll all live if that's true. :)  But for lack of better words, that kinda sucks.

- Chris


On May 16, 2013, at 1:59 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:

> David Kranz wrote:
>> I disagree. Although I am one of the ~5 now, I was not at my first
>> summit in Boston. But being in the back was an extremely valuable
>> experience.
>> Some of the "critical" participants a year or two from now may be
>> sitting in the back this time, but we don't now which ones.
> 
> That's precisely why rotating the location every 6 months (once per year
> in the US, once per year in the rest of the world) is good: it gives an
> opportunity for everyone to join and step up.
> 
> I agree that it's great to have those open design summits and give
> everyone a chance to participate and become a critical member of our
> community... but I think as long as we have enough of the existing
> critical people in, rotating the rest of the attendance is beneficial
> rather than detrimental.
> 
> The trick with remote attendance is that unless you build a stellar
> experience (which is extremely hard for more than a couple of remote
> participants), you make it useless for remote participants and a hassle
> for local participants.
> 
> -- 
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> Release Manager, OpenStack
> 
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