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Awesome to hear Adam! No need to wait for the next Summit either is our
hope. We are working on a proposal in the coming days that we hope will get
some great feedback and be solidified from the community.

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Adam Spiers <aspiers at suse.com> wrote:

> Hi Jimmy and Melvin,
>
> Just a post-Boston follow-up to thank you guys for the advice you gave
> below, and to let you know the outcome.  My colleague Sampath
> organised a Forum session for general HA discussion which we
> co-chaired, and it was really well attended with some good
> discussions!
>
>    https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BOS-forum-HA-in-openstack
>
> I have just sent a follow-up message to openstack-{dev,operators}:
>
>    http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-May/116703.html
>
> Thanks again, and I hope that we can continue to host these forum
> discussions at future summits!
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
> Jimmy McArthur <jimmy at openstack.org> wrote:
>
>> Agree with Melvin here. Another suggestion is to put the BoF on the
>> schedule if you think it can garner enough attendance. As Melvin suggests,
>> grab a co-presenter/moderator or two. I would also suggest attending
>> sessions that you think might have an audience that would be a fit for you
>> BoF and letting people know about the discussion.
>>
>>> Melvin Hillsman <mailto:mrhillsman at gmail.com>
>>> March 28, 2017 at 6:32 PM
>>> Hey Adam,
>>>
>>> Might I suggest simply suggesting the session via
>>> http://forumtopics.openstack.org
>>>
>>> You will want to ensure that you or another person who is keen to get
>>> the feedback you think is relevant can moderate the session as well.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Melvin Hillsman
>>> Ops Technical Lead
>>> OpenStack Innovation Center
>>>
>>> mrhillsman at gmail.com <mailto:mrhillsman at gmail.com>
>>> phone: (210) 312-1267
>>> mobile: (210) 413-1659
>>> http://osic.org
>>>
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>>> Adam Spiers <mailto:aspiers at suse.com>
>>>
>>> March 28, 2017 at 7:12 AM
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> There is no official Working Group for High Availability, but in my
>>> (admittedly biased) experience as the chair of the weekly HA IRC
>>> meetings, the lack of a designated space for HA discussions has been a
>>> problem in pretty much every one of the 9 conference-summits and PTG
>>> I've attended.  I raised this last year:
>>>
>>>    http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-Aug
>>> ust/100570.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Pretty much all the topics I mentioned in that mail are still
>>> relevant.  The difficulty in coordinating the right kinds of
>>> discussions between the right kind of people is that OpenStack HA is a
>>> mixed pot of topics which overlap to very different degrees.  For
>>> example the use of technologies such as Pacemaker and tooz potentially
>>> span multiple projects, as does feedback from operators[0], whereas
>>> other HA topics can be entirely specific to one project (Neutron is a
>>> good example of this).
>>>
>>> Feedback from operators to developers on HA is one area I would
>>> particularly like to see more space for.  For example, there was a
>>> very interesting HA-oriented session at the recent MIL ops meetup:
>>>
>>>   https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/MIL-ops-rabbitmq-pitfalls-ha
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I was not at the event so I don't know how many upstream
>>> developers attended the session, or if there was any feedback sent to
>>> developers as a consequence.  And conversely, there didn't seem to be
>>> many operators at the Atlanta PTG.  But the main conference events
>>> could serve as a great opportunity for connecting operators with
>>> developers for these kinds of discussions.
>>>
>>> I'm hesitant to propose a new HA working group, because I doubt
>>> there'd be sufficient cohesion of interests across the whole group,
>>> and it might well be overkill.  A BoF approach would probably make
>>> more sense, but I have to admit I don't have a lot of experience in
>>> coordinating these kinds of face-to-face discussions, so any advice on
>>> how best to handle this would be most welcome!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Adam
>>> Jimmy McArthur <mailto:jimmy at openstack.org>
>>> March 27, 2017 at 1:41 PM
>>> Good day!
>>>
>>> We are putting a call out to any additional Working Groups that might
>>> require space for the OpenStack Summit Boston, May 8-11th!  The initial
>>> call was for official working groups, but we have additional space that we
>>> would love to fill with other Working Groups in need.
>>>
>>> Please submit all space requests to speakersupport at openstack.org. All
>>> we need is the name of your Working Group and the person that will be
>>> adding the presentation details. We will fill them in the order received
>>> and send instructions for logging in and entering your data.  All requests
>>> must be received by Friday, March 31.
>>>
>>> If we have additional room (and we likely will), we will open it up to
>>> BoFs.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> Jimmy McArthur & Erin Disney
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>


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-- 
Kind regards,

Melvin Hillsman
mrhillsman at gmail.com
mobile: (832) 264-2646

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