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 ---- On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:01:43 -0700  melanie witt  wrote --- 
 > On Wed Oct 26 2022 11:24:37 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time), Kendall 
 > Nelson kennelson11 at gmail.com> wrote:
 > > No that wasn't the plan. I think the Forum will also still happen as per 
 > > usual.
 > 
 > TBH, I wouldn't mind it (and I think I would actually prefer it) if we 
 > went back to the OG model of having the summit and the design summit at 
 > the same time. I was never into the split off into the PTG but wanted to 
 > be open minded. I think having the user-oriented energy of the summit 
 > combined with the ability to participate on the dev side at the same 
 > event was a good thing. I might be alone in this feeling though.

I agree and it will definitely help to connect users/operators more in the
dev community. Honestly saying, I always liked that model.

-gmann

 > 
 > That said, I think gmann highlighted the challenge with this would be 
 > how we really need to have two events per year to collaborate on each 
 > upcoming release. I wonder if we could do one co-located event with the 
 > summit and then a virtual PTG for the other cycle? I dunno if the 
 > virtual PTG is too resource intensive. I'm generally not a fan of 
 > virtual events but I have quite liked the virtual PTG. I think it has 
 > been running really smoothly and very productive.
 > 
 > Just my 2c.
 > 
 > -melwitt
 > 
 > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:29 AM Sean Mooney smooney at redhat.com 
 > > smooney at redhat.com>> wrote:
 > > 
 > >     On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 11:13 -0500, Kendall Nelson wrote:
 > >      > On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 1:52 PM Ghanshyam Mann
 > >     gmann at ghanshyammann.com gmann at ghanshyammann.com>>
 > >      > wrote:
 > >      >
 > >      > >  ---- On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:32:46 -0700  Kendall Nelson  wrote ---
 > >      > >  > Hello Everyone!
 > >      > >  > Congratulations on a great virtual PTG last week :)
 > >      > >  >
 > >      > >  > The OpenInfra Foundation is hosting the OpenInfra Summit in
 > >     Vancouver
 > >      > > [1], June 13 -15, 2023.
 > >      > >  > We are trying to determine the level of interest among
 > >     contributors to
 > >      > > OpenInfra projects on attending a co-located PTG in Vancouver.
 > >     The exact
 > >      > > format and dates are still being determined. At this time, we are
 > >      > > evaluating the level of interest from an attendee and employer
 > >     perspective.
 > >      > > Please complete the following poll so we can measure the level
 > >     of interest
 > >      > > and plan accordingly. Future updates will be distributed to the
 > >     project
 > >      > > mailing lists as well as previous PTG attendees.
 > >      > >  >
 > >      > >
 > >      > > Thanks, Kendall for collecting the feedback and survey. One
 > >     question to
 > >      > > understand the future PTGs schedule.
 > >      > >
 > >      > > As PTGs are aligned with the OpenStack new development cycle
 > >     timing, they
 > >      > > were very helpful to plan the
 > >      > > new cycle features/work well at the start of the cycle.  But
 > >     seeing the
 > >      > > summit co-located PTG timing which
 > >      > > is June, I am curious to know if there will be a PTG for the
 > >     2023.2 (B)
 > >      > > cycle in April (with 2023.1 Antelope releasing
 > >      > > at the March end) also? Or we are going to have only one in
 > >     June which
 > >      > > will be co-located in Vancouver Summit (once
 > >      > > it is final based on survey results).
 > >      > >
 > >      >
 > >      > We would still do the usual virtual PTG on the ''normal"
 > >     timeline. This
 > >      > potential add on to Vancouver would be in addition to the virtual
 > >     PTG.
 > >     so replacing the fourm?
 > > 
 > >      >
 > >      >
 > >      > > Definitely, having a co-located PTGs in Summit is a very good
 > >     idea, saving
 > >      > > travel, and being much more productive also
 > >      > > but it's just timing from OpenStack release perspective making
 > >     it a little
 > >      > > bit difficult.
 > >      > >
 > >      > > -gmann
 > >      > >
 > >      > >  > Poll:
 > >      > >
 > >     https://openinfrafoundation.formstack.com/forms/openinfra_ptg_2023
 > >     https://openinfrafoundation.formstack.com/forms/openinfra_ptg_2023>
 > >      > >  >
 > >      > >  > As a reminder, we are also gathering feedback for the
 > >     virtual PTG here:
 > >      > > https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/Oct2022_PTGFeedback
 > >     https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/Oct2022_PTGFeedback>
 > >      > >  >
 > >      > >  > -Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo)
 > >      > >  > [1] https://openinfra.dev/summit/
 > >     https://openinfra.dev/summit/>
 > >      > >
 > > 
 > 
 > 
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