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Excerpts from Matt Riedemann's message of 2016-10-06 11:33:35 -0500:
> This is just a follow up email to the discussion about nova's 
> participation in the Project Team Gathering (PTG) in February right 
> after the Ocata release.
> 
> I had asked because the OpenStack Foundation is getting early feedback 
> on which teams are planning to attend. Several people said they planned 
> on attending the PTG during the Nova meeting so I've submitted the form 
> saying we'll have a room for Nova.
> 
> Remember at a high level that the PTG is the replacement for the 
> midcycle meetups, except it's centrally located and organized by the 
> foundation, and it's at the release boundaries rather than the middle.
> 
> The traditional summit that we're used to is now in the middle of the 
> release and is more for the marketing stuff that happens at the summit 
> whereas the PTG is supposed to be strictly technical and for 
> development, like the design summit.
> 

That's a bit different than the way I understood it. My understanding
was that it was more like the fishbowls still happen, at the PTG, and the
work rooms at the end of the week at the PTG would replace the mid-cycles.

If we don't have fishbowls anymore, we are going to end up siloing even
harder than we already do.

> Personally if you care more about development discussions and would have 
> to pick between going to the PTG or the summit, the PTG is the thing you 
> want to try and get to now, but that's my opinion.
> 

I care about cross project, and that's not going to work if it's just
the nova devs in a room with their own agenda and I have to sit there
all day to get to the 2 or 3 topics that affect my efforts.