Open Stack

On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Renat Akhmerov wrote:

> If you are a developer, of course, PTG is an important event to
> attend. But… Being a developer, I would also love to attend summits
> also. For a bunch of reasons like catching up with the activities
> wider than my current focus of development, participating in getting
> user feedback and help clarifying possible misunderstanding of
> technical things being discussed which makes feedback gathering
> process more valuable (I believe that often users don’t know what
> they want, at least, in details, we need to help them understand by
> sharing our experience) etc. Also, for purely psychological reason I
> think it’s very important for people who mostly focus on very
> specific tasks to sometimes go and see events like an OpenStack
> summit. From my experience, people often change their attitude to
> their work when they see how many people are interested in what they
> are working on in labs. And it’s almost impossible to find a better
> way of getting that feeling of participating in something tremendous
> than attending summits.

This. A thousand times this.

Summit is one of the few ways that I get to see the big picture and
that there are actual real people doing real things with OpenStack.

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