[Openstack-operators] A Hypervisor supporting containers

matt matt at nycresistor.com
Fri May 2 19:03:07 UTC 2014


I agree with brad.  It's a misguided effort.  Operators largely will not
ever be involved with the summit.  We need to be focused on remote
participation here.


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:52 PM, John Dewey <john at dewey.ws> wrote:

> On Friday, May 2, 2014 at 11:44 AM, matt wrote:
>
> yeah i've been to a few summits.   trust me we're not getting a good cross
> section there.
>
> It’s not perfect, but it also isn’t as gloom as previously stated either.
>  We are trying to make it better, and get more operators involved.
>
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:30 PM, John Dewey <john at dewey.ws> wrote:
>
>
>  On Friday, May 2, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:
>
> On May 2, 2014, at 11:27 AM, matt <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:
>
> most operators do not attend summits.
>
>
> For people who do work at companies that would qualify as "operators", the
> only people who ever will attend summits or conferences are sales and
> marketing types. Real rubber-meets-the-road operations people won't attend,
> unless they've been invited to speak.
>
> At most, companies may potentially allow their employees to attend one
> conference or summit per year (i.e., allow them to take PTO to attend on
> their own dollar), and lots of things are likely to rank higher on their
> list of priorities than squandering that once-a-year opportunity on a
> summit.
>
>
> The only people who are likely to ever attend a conference or a summit are
> people who could generate sales by being there and operating the booth, or
> if they're new enough to the space and their company is desperate enough to
> send one person somewhere for a week to become the in-house "expert" on the
> subject.
>
>
> At least, that's the pattern I've seen repeated over and over again for
> the past 25+ years.
>
> I completely disagree.  Have you been to an OpenStack Summit?  I have been
> to every one since cactus.  There are many experienced operators who attend.
>
>
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