Open Stack

Lauren Sell wrote:
> Speaking submissions for the conference-style content are
> live http://www.openstack.org/summit/san-diego-2012/call-for-speakers/ (basically
> everything except the Design Summit working sessions which will open for
> submissions in the next few weeks), and the deadline is August 30.

A bit of explanation on the contents for the "Design Summit" track:

The Design Summit track is for developers and contributors to the next
release cycle of OpenStack (codenamed "Grizzly"). Each session is an
open discussion on a given technical theme or specific feature
to-be-developed in one of the OpenStack core projects.

Compared to previous editions, we'll run parallel to rest of the
OpenStack Summit and just be one of the "tracks" for the general event.
We'll run over 4 days, but there will be no session scheduled during the
"general session" of the OpenStack Summit (first hours in the morning on
Tuesday/Wednesday). Finally, all sessions will be 40-min long, to align
with the rest of the event.

Within the Design Summit we also used to have classic presentations
around Devops, ecosystem and related projects: those will now have their
own tracks in the OpenStack Summit ("Operations Summit", "Related OSS
Projects", "Ecosystem", "Security"...), so they are no longer a subpart
of the "Design Summit" track. The "Design Summit" will be entirely
focused on the Grizzly cycle of official OpenStack projects, and
entirely made of open discussions. We'll also have some breakout rooms
available for extra workgroups and incubated projects.

The sessions within the design summit are now organized around "Topics".
The topics for the Design Summit are the core projects,
openstack-common, Documentation and a common "Process" track to cover
the release cycle and infrastructure. Each topic content is coordinated
by the corresponding team lead(s).

Since most developers are focused on Folsom right now, we traditionally
open our call for sessions a bit later (should be opened first week of
September). Contributors will be invited to suggest a topic for design
summit sessions. After the Folsom release, each topic lead will review
the suggestions, merge some of them and come up with an agenda for
his/her topic. You can already see the proposed topic layout on the
"Design Summit topics" tab in the document linked in Lauren's email.

Comments/Feedback welcome !

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack