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See below. It looks as if there may well be an Ops Meetup, but we don’t know where/when. Meanwhile we have six votes in the Doodle poll, and right now Aug 10-11 or 11-12 look promising.

Geoff

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org>
> Subject: [Openstack-operators] Scaling the Ops Meetup
> Date: June 29, 2015 at 9:33:07 PM PDT
> To: OpenStack Operators <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Right now, behind-the-scenes, we're working on getting a venue for next
> ops mid-cycle. It's taking a little longer than normal, but rest assured
> it is happening.
> 
> Why is it so difficult? As you may have noticed, we're reaching the size
> of event where both physically and financially, only the largest
> organisations can host us.
> 
> We thought we might get away with organising this one old-school with a
> single host and sponsor. Then, for the next, start a brainstorming
> discussion with you about how we scale these events into the future -
> since once we get up and beyond a few hundred people, we're looking at
> having to hire a venue as well as make some changes to the format of the
> event.
> 
> However, it seems that even this might be too late. We already had a
> company that proposed to host the meetup at a west coast US hotel
> instead of their place, and wanted to scope out other companies to
> sponsor food.
> 
> This would be a change in the model, so let's commence the discussion of
> how we want to scale this event :)
> 
> So far I've heard things like:
> * "my $CORPORATE_BENEFACTOR would be fine to share sponsorship with others"
> * "I really don't want to get to the point where we want booths at the
> ops meetup"
> 
> Which are promising! It seems like we have a shared understanding of
> what to take this forward with.
> 
> So, as the ops meetup grows - what would it look like for you?
> 
> How do you think we can manage the venue selection and financial side of
> things? What about the session layout and the scheduling with the
> growing numbers of attendees?
> 
> Current data can be found at
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Operations/Meetups#Venue_Selection .
> 
> I would also be interested in your thoughts about how these events have
> only been in a limited geographical area so far, and how we can address
> that issue.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
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