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So What I'm hearing is having a single focal point which moves is
preferred because:

* There is a real feeling of marginalization in non-US ops community
* Dev representatives and other working groups (product, UX, etc)
  work better with a single focus
* Foundation resources can more effectively support a single event

There also exists a fairly strong community desire to address ways of
increasing remote participation (spokes) through coordinated regional
meetups (locally organized) or other means to be determined...(this
was rather my hope that having a strong US community that may have
more difficulty attending would drive more innovation in remote
participation strategies)

I believe this is the current consensus, but it's also very close to my
ideas going in so if you think I'm reading the community sense
incorrectly please call me on that.

-Jon 

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:50:52AM -0500, Jonathan Proulx wrote:
:Hi All,
:
:1st User Committee IRC meeting will be today at 19:00UTC on
:#openstack-meeting, we haven't exactly settled on an agenda yet but I
:hope to raise this issue the...
:
:It has been suggested that we make the February 15-16 European Ops
:Meetup in Manchester UK [1] the 'official' OPs Midcycle.  Previously
:all mid cycles have been US based.
:
:Personally I like the idea of broadening or geographic reach rather
:than staying concentrated in North America. I particularly like it
:being 'opposite' the summit location.
:
:This would likely trade off some depth of participation as fewer
:of the same people would be able to travel to all midcycles in person.
:
:Discuss...(also come by  #openstack-meeting at 19:00 UTC if you think
:this needs real time discussion)
:
:-Jon
:
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:1. http://www.eventbrite.com/e/european-openstack-operators-meetup-tickets-19405855436?aff=es2

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