Open Stack

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:50 PM Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 20:07 Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger at gmail.com
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>> *removes all of the hats*
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>> *removes years of dust from unrelated event planning hat, and puts it on
>> for a moment*
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>> In my experience, events of any nature where convention venue space is
>> involved, are essentially set in stone before being publicly advertised as
>> contracts are put in place for hotel room booking blocks as well as the
>> convention venue space. These spaces are also typically in a relatively
>> high demand limiting the access and available times to schedule. Often
>> venues also give preference (and sometimes even better group discounts) to
>> repeat events as they are typically a known entity and will have somewhat
>> known needs so the venue and hotel(s) can staff appropriately.
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>> tl;dr, I personally wouldn't expect any changes to be possible at this
>> point.
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>> *removes event planning hat of past life, puts personal scheduling hat on*
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>> I imagine that as a community, it is near impossible to schedule
>> something avoiding holidays for everyone in the community.
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> I'm not taking about everyone. And I'm mostly fine with my holiday, but
> the conflicts with Russia and Japan seem huge. This certainly does not help
> our effort to engage people outside of NA/EU.
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> Quick googling suggests that the week of May 13th would have much fewer
> conflicts.
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May is also a fairly popular month for weddings... and I've seen wedding
parties book out whole floors of hotel rooms. This complicates room block
negotiations sadly.


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>> I personally have lost count of the number of holidays and special days
>> that I've spent on business trips over the past four years. While I may be
>> an out-lier in my feelings on this subject, I'm not upset, annoyed, or even
>> bitter about lost times. This community is part of my family.
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> Sure :)
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> But outside of our small nice circle there is a huge world of people who
> may not share our feeling and the level of commitment to openstack. These
> occasional contributors we talked about when discussing the cycle length. I
> don't think asking them to abandon 3-5 days of holidays is a productive way
> to engage them.
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> And again, as much as I love meeting you all, I think we're outgrowing the
> format of these meetings..
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> Dmitry
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It is funny you mention this because I was wondering something similar, but
possibly for different reasons. I get there needs to be a marketing aspect
to aid in sales and visibility. We need to also work on our local
visibilities and broadcast out what individual projects and the community
is doing on a smaller, more local scale... but I feel very conflicted with
air travel and the state of atmospheric carbon levels.

I wouldn't call my perception outgrowing, but perhaps growing more
ecologically sensitive.
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