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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:
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> Hi Leong,
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> You could make a similar argument for some of the other tracks. 
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> 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 <mailto:yih.leong.sun at intel.com>>
> Date: Friday, May 27, 2016 at 12:51 PM
> To: Pieter Kruithof <pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com <mailto:pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com>>, "user-committee at lists.openstack.org <mailto:user-committee at lists.openstack.org>" <user-committee at lists.openstack.org <mailto:user-committee at lists.openstack.org>>, "openstack-tc-request at lists.openstack.org <mailto:openstack-tc-request at lists.openstack.org>" <openstack-tc-request at lists.openstack.org <mailto:openstack-tc-request at lists.openstack.org>>, Heidi Joy Tretheway <heidijoy at openstack.org <mailto:heidijoy at openstack.org>>, Edgar Magana <edgar.magana at workday.com <mailto:edgar.magana at workday.com>>, David F Flanders <flanders at openstack.org <mailto:flanders at openstack.org>>
> Subject: RE: Barcelona Tracks
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> 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”.
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> 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.
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> My 2 cents.. :-)
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> Subject: [User-committee] Barcelona Tracks
>  
> Hi Folks,
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> I was hoping you could help me understand how the presentation tracks are identified for each summit. 
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> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/categories/track-list <https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/categories/track-list>
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> 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.”  
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> 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.  
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> 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.
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> Lemme know what you think..
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> Piet
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