Open Stack

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 11:21:16AM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> 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.
> 

I actually really like this idea. As things slow down, there just aren't enough
of big splashy new things to announce every 6 months. I think it could work
well to have one Summit a year, while using the OSD events as a way to reach
those folks that can't make it to the one big event for the year due to timing
or location.

It could help concentrate efforts to have bigger goals ready by the Summit and
keep things on a better cadence. And if we can still do a PTG-like event along
side one of the OSD events, it would allow development to still get the
valuable face-to-face time that we've come to expect.

> Thinking on this is still very much work in progress.
> 
> -- 
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>