[User-committee] Ops and BoF sessions at the Summit / Forum

Blair Bethwaite blair.bethwaite at monash.edu
Thu Jul 13 00:51:52 UTC 2017


This didn't get a reply yet on the UC list so I thought maybe adding
OS-ops would get some attention...

On 10 July 2017 at 22:32, Blair Bethwaite <blair.bethwaite at monash.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We use Ceph along with our OpenStack. At Summits gone by I've
> typically participated in very well attended Ceph ops sessions. With
> CephFS having been dubbed production-ready for over 6 months now, some
> colleagues suggested proposing a CephFS BoF for OpenStack Sydney,
> hence the message...
>
> In Boston (coinciding with the beginning of the Forum) there wasn't a
> Ceph ops session. There was however an entire Ceph Day co-located
> (which was great by the way - kudos to whoever came up with the
> OpenStack Summit + Open Source Days idea).
>
> Still, a few regulars were sad to miss out on the real-time mailing
> list experience you get in dedicated users/ops sessions like these. By
> the time we realised there wasn't one on the schedule in was a bit
> late (and unfortunately we couldn't use the free spots on the Thursday
> as that would have clashed with the Ceph Day programme). Arguably the
> organisers of the Ceph Day could/should have included a general
> user/ops BoF/feedback session within that sub-programme - it looks
> like there won't be any co-located Open Source Days in Sydney though,
> so that point is somewhat moot this time around.
>
> The purpose of this message is to figure out where this sort of stuff
> belongs now in the new Summit format? It naturally seems to fit in the
> Forum, but I think the way the Forum brainstorming was posed for
> Boston and the fact it was the first go-around for the Forum meant
> that no-one thought to propose these sorts of originally Ops-Summit
> things.
>
> Am I right to wait for the Sydney Forum process to kick off or should
> we be submitting something into the main call for presentations now?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Blair Bethwaite
> Senior HPC Consultant
>
> Monash eResearch Centre
> Monash University
> Room G26, 15 Innovation Walk, Clayton Campus
> Clayton VIC 3800
> Australia
> Mobile: 0439-545-002
> Office: +61 3-9903-2800



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Blair Bethwaite
Senior HPC Consultant

Monash eResearch Centre
Monash University
Room G26, 15 Innovation Walk, Clayton Campus
Clayton VIC 3800
Australia
Mobile: 0439-545-002
Office: +61 3-9903-2800



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