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jeblair at openstack.org (James E. Blair) writes:

> Hi,
>
> The subject of a mid-cycle meetup for the infrastructure team has come
> up a few times recently, so I wanted to get an idea of who might be
> interested and what we want to get out of it.
>
> If you are interested in spending a few days focusing on OpenStack
> project infrastructure, would you please reply (privately is fine) with
> your area of interest.  Some ideas:
>
> * You want to sit in a room and hack with other infra folks on large
>   projects we have undertaken this cycle.
>
> * You want to become a core infra team member and would like to get up
>   to speed.
>
> * You are running an internal CI system and want to become familiar with
>   our tools.
>
> * You are running an internal CI system and want to figure out how to
>   contribute upstream.
>
> Feel free to add any others.
>
> After collecting this feedback, we'll be better able to determine if
> it's worth getting together and how to structure a meeting to be most
> effective.

One of the things we learned after putting out this notice is that we
have a lot of demands on our time this cycle.  After looking at all the
events we expected to attend, we anticipate being fairly busy, so we sat
down and worked out whether we could achieve our goals without adding
another event to the calendar.  We think that the existing conferences
and meetups that we're planning to attend will serve to put us in
contact with people in the first two groups I mentioned.

For instance, several infra-core people plan on attending linux.conf.au
where we'll have an opportunity to work on some long-running projects
and meet with people who want to get involved.  Also, there may be
meetups for the tripleo and storyboard projects; as they have
significant overlap in interest with infra, we'll try to have some
representation there.

These events may not serve the needs of people who are running
downstream CI systems and want to collaborate more -- an important and
growing group.  So we're planning on structuring some time at the design
summit specifically for this.  Our idea is to try to have a breakout
session on the first day of the summit to present a comprehensive
overview, which should help make design sessions, unconference time, and
other unstructured interactions more useful.

Thanks for the feedback, and we'll try to keep this list updated with
opportunities to meet in person, or otherwise outside of
#openstack-infra.

-Jim