[openstack-dev] [tc] summary of joint leadership meeting from 20 May

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Tue Jun 5 09:21:16 UTC 2018


Jay Pipes wrote:
> On 06/04/2018 05:02 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>> [...]>
> Personally, I've very much enjoyed the separate PTGs because I've actually been able to get work done at them; something that was much harder when the design summits were part of the overall conference. 

Right, the trick is to try to preserve that productivity while making it
easier to travel to... One way would be to make sure the PTG remains a
separate event (separate days, separate venues, separate registration),
just co-located in same city and week.

> [...]
>> There are a few plans under consideration, and no firm decisions
>> have been made, yet. We discussed a strawman proposal to combine
>> the summit and PTG in April, in Denver, that would look much like
>> our older Summit events (from the Folsom/Grizzly time frame) with
>> a few days of conference and a few days of design summit, with some
>> overlap in the middle of the week.  The dates, overlap, and
>> arrangements will depend on venue availability.
> 
> Has the option of doing a single conference a year been addressed? Seems
> to me that we (the collective we) could save a lot of money not having
> to put on multiple giant events per year and instead have one.

Yes, the same strawman proposal included the idea of leveraging an
existing international "OpenStack Day" event and raising its profile
rather than organizing a full second summit every year. The second PTG
of the year could then be kept as a separate event, or put next to that
"upgraded" OpenStack Day.

Thinking on this is still very much work in progress.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)



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