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Yes Piet.
I have been served as a track chair for 2 summits. We, as a track chair,
are always reminded to focus on "user" when selecting the
sessions/proposals.


On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Kruithof Jr, Pieter <
pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com> wrote:

> One other quick thing.
>
> I tend to push back a bit because moving OpenStack towards a more
> user-focused culture is important to me.  However, please don’t think I’m
> angry or trying to pick a fight!!!
>
> Piet
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> From: Pieter Kruithof <pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com>
> Date: Monday, May 30, 2016 at 8:27 AM
> To: Lauren Sell <lauren at openstack.org>
> Cc: Ju Lim <julim at redhat.com>, "user-committee at lists.openstack.org" <
> user-committee at lists.openstack.org>, David F Flanders <
> flanders at openstack.org>, "openstack-tc-request at lists.openstack.org" <
> openstack-tc-request at lists.openstack.org>, Edgar Magana <
> edgar.magana at workday.com>
>
> Subject: Re: [User-committee] Barcelona Tracks
>
> I would be a bit careful because Leong’s point was that user expereince
> spans the other tracks, but I could make the same argument for strategy and
> business.  Also, I think it makes sense to be explicit about user
> experience within largely engineering-centric cultures.
>
> My hope was to begin to push the community towards really focusing on
> users and it seemed as though adding a track that would cause the project
> teams to really think deeply about how their features impact users.
>
> However, the individual track isn’t a huge priority for me, but something
> worth considering.
>
> My two cents.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Piet
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> From: Lauren Sell <lauren at openstack.org>
> Date: Monday, May 30, 2016 at 7:51 AM
> To: Pieter Kruithof <pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com>
> Cc: "Sun, Yih Leong" <yih.leong.sun at intel.com>, "
> user-committee at lists.openstack.org" <user-committee at lists.openstack.org>,
> "openstack-tc-request at lists.openstack.org" <
> openstack-tc-request at lists.openstack.org>, Heidi Joy Tretheway <
> heidijoy at openstack.org>, Edgar Magana <edgar.magana at workday.com>, David F
> Flanders <flanders at openstack.org>
> Subject: Re: [User-committee] Barcelona Tracks
>
> Hi Piet, Leong,
>
> The Foundation staff organizes the conference tracks with input from the
> track chairs. We look at how many sessions were submitted across tracks at
> the previous summit, which were the most popular, etc., as well as new
> areas we want to bring focus, such as cloud app development or
> organizational culture.
>
> For the Barcelona Summit, we’re planning to divide the conference tracks
> among three different categories: Business & Strategy, Architecture &
> Operations, and Developers. We will also continue to run OpenStack Academy,
> which is now home to all of the hands-on workshops, day-long training
> sessions and Certified OpenStack Administrator exams.
>
> I agree with Leong that User Experience might not make sense as a track on
> its own, but UX is an official “tag,” which is apparent to attendees. I
> would make sure you select the tag for the sessions you’re describing so we
> get a sense for how many presentations are UX related and have a way to
> filter / promote them in the schedule (as well as the post Summit videos).
>
> Thanks,
> Lauren
>
>
> On May 27, 2016, at 2:48 PM, Kruithof Jr, Pieter <
> pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Leong,
>
> You could make a similar argument for some of the other tracks.
>
> My experience with engineering-driven communities is that work on
> improving user experience tend to be pushed aside for highly technical
> presentations.  Also, adding User Experience as a track communicates that
> users are important.
>
> Piet
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> From: "Sun, Yih Leong" <yih.leong.sun at intel.com>
> Date: Friday, May 27, 2016 at 12:51 PM
> To: Pieter Kruithof <pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com>, "
> user-committee at lists.openstack.org" <user-committee at lists.openstack.org>,
> "openstack-tc-request at lists.openstack.org" <
> openstack-tc-request at lists.openstack.org>, Heidi Joy Tretheway <
> heidijoy at openstack.org>, Edgar Magana <edgar.magana at workday.com>, David F
> Flanders <flanders at openstack.org>
> Subject: RE: Barcelona Tracks
>
> This is just my personal opinion and I have no strong oppose on it.
> In my opinion, “user experience” is not a track itself but potentially
> cover many aspect in OpenStack, which will fall under different tracks
> depending on the “context”.
>
> If the talk is related to user experience from App Developer perspective,
> that might fit under “Cloud App Development”.
> For example, the Marcela’s cloud benchmarking was presented in this track
> at Austin.
> If the talk is from Operator perspective, maybe “Operations” will be a
> good one.
> If the talk is about new tools for user experience, that would probably
> fit under “Related OSS Projects” or “Products & Services” track.
>
> My 2 cents.. :-)
>
>
> *From:* Kruithof Jr, Pieter [mailto:pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com
> <pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com>]
> *Sent:* Friday, May 27, 2016 10:46 AM
> *To:* user-committee at lists.openstack.org;
> openstack-tc-request at lists.openstack.org; Heidi Joy Tretheway <
> heidijoy at openstack.org>; Edgar Magana <edgar.magana at workday.com>; David F
> Flanders <flanders at openstack.org>
> *Subject:* [User-committee] Barcelona Tracks
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I was hoping you could help me understand how the presentation tracks are
> identified for each summit.
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/categories/track-list
>
> I’m sure you know where I’m going with this…would like to propose that
> we include a “user experience” track or something more catchy like “Focus
> on customers" or “What have you done for me lately.”
>
> The goal is to help generate a deeper discussion on how we serve our
> customers within the community.  Note that this isn’t intended to be a way
> to add more sessions from the OpenStack UX project.  In fact, I’m far more
> interested in hearing how the other projects are focusing on their
> customers.
>
> For example, the Horizon project has done an interesting concepts that
> integrates searchlight more deeply into the user portal.  In addition, the
> Docs team will be looking at how information architecture can be changed to
> better inform our users.  Also, OpenStackClient has also done a few
> usability studies with both operators and end users that would be
> interesting for the community.
>
> Lemme know what you think..
>
> Piet
>
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