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On 02/22/2016 09:14 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:

> The second event would be the main downstream business conference,
> with high-end keynotes, marketplace and breakout sessions. It would
> be organized two or three months /after/ the release, to give time
> for all downstream users to deploy and build products on top of the
> release. It would be the best time to gather feedback on the recent
> release, and also the best time to have strategic discussions:
> start gathering requirements for the next cycle, leveraging the
> very large cross-section of all our community that attends the
> event.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the push by many of the larger
companies involved to have their devs give as many presentations as
possible at the Summit in the hope of improving their visibility in
the OpenStack world, and possibly also providing additional material
to their sales teams about their contribution status. Over the years
I've talked to several people who work for such companies, many of
whom have said that they will only pay for the dev to attend the
summit if they have a presentation accepted.

If you now have a separate summit/meeting for the developers away from
the big splashy business event, I'm wondering if we might make it
harder for many developers to get funded for this travel.

That said, I'm 100% behind the idea. I go to the summits to discuss
code, not to watch PowerPoint slides.

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- -- Ed Leafe
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