[User-committee] [openstack-community] Bringing focus to the Operators and Users at the next summit

Sean Dague sean at dague.net
Fri Dec 13 16:37:15 UTC 2013


Right, I actually responded over on the openstack general list with
that. It seems like this would be a better thread on the openstack
general list to get the most people engaged.

	-Sean

On 12/13/2013 11:14 AM, Michael Still wrote:
> I think this is a good idea too, but its also important it not clash
> with the design summit days... It would be good to get some devs into
> the room if at all possible.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:
>> I agree with this suggestion.
>>
>> While development and design is obviously critical - a track dedicated to
>> those managing existing clouds or installing them could really benefit from
>> sharing their experiences in a dedicated way.
>>
>> Good idea.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adam
>>
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>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Everett Toews <everett.toews at rackspace.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> I really like your timing of it too. I can see this as a rallying point
>>> for operators and application developers. We can discuss what's important to
>>> us and our pain points and then encourage everyone to attend design sessions
>>> and give the ops and app devs perspective. I attended a number of sessions
>>> at the last summit where the OpenStack developers were down right excited to
>>> have real users giving their feedback.
>>>
>>> Everett
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 12, 2013, at 8:30 PM, Tristan Goode wrote:
>>>
>>> Thought I'd post this here too (because of the noise in the general
>>> list)...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> G'day OpenStackLand,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have an idea for the next summit to put forward...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Like we have the various project design summit session days at the
>>> summits, I think it'd be really useful to have an Operators and Users day at
>>> the very start of the next summit (and hopefully all of them in future if it
>>> works out). So far at the last 4 summits I've attended, from the users and
>>> operators point of view we've had a rag tag bunch of disconnected panels and
>>> 40 minute sessions that really don't get anywhere much and don’t make it to
>>> any sort of plan or worthwhile result. This proposed "Operators and Users"
>>> day will be run like the design summit session days where all of us that
>>> have to deal with the consequences of the software development of this
>>> project sit in a room and work the issues. The goal is to present real
>>> world, evidence based Operator, User, and even other input like Sales and
>>> Marketing experiences back into the development teams. Maybe we might even
>>> have our own "Operators and Users" lounge too. :-P
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Tristan
>>>
>>>
>>>
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