Open Stack

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:31 AM, CARVER, PAUL <pc2929 at att.com> wrote:
> Russell Bryant [mailto:rbryant at redhat.com] wrote:
>
>>An ideal solution would allow attendees to join as individuals from
>>anywhere.  A lot of contributors work from home.  Is that sort of thing
>>compatible with your system?
>
> In principle, yes, but that loses the immersive telepresence aspect
> which is the next best thing to an in-person meetup (which is where
> this thread started.)
>
> AT&T Employees live and breathe on AT&T Connect which is our
> teleconferencing (not telepresence) service. It supports webcam
> video as well as desktop sharing, but I'm on the verge of making
> a sales pitch here which was NOT my intent.
>
> I'm on AT&T Connect meetings 5+ times a day but I'm biased so I
> won't offer any opinion on how it compares to WebEx, GotoMeeting,
> and other services. None of them are really equivalent to the
> purpose built telepresence rooms.
>
> My point was that there may well be a telepresence room within
> reasonable driving distance for a large number of OpenStack
> contributors if we were able to get a number of the large
> OpenStack participant companies to open their doors to an
> occasional meet-up. Instead of asking participants around
> the globe to converge on a single physical location for
> a meet-up, perhaps they could converge on the closest of
> 20 different locations that are linked via telepresence.
>
If we could make this work, I'd be up for it. It's a great balance to
the travel and face-to-face argument here.

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