[Rdo-list] Community meetup at OpenStack Summit

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 02:07:34PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:
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> So, it appears that a lunch meeting is difficult. Lauren's response
> about commandeering a table at lunch can be seen at
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/community/2014-October/000930.html but
> the summary is that, since the summit is sold out, they don't want us
> to take any more time than necessary at lunch tables, but just eat and
> free it up for the next people.
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> Remaining options include:
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> * Meet at nearby restaurant. We're investigating the possibility of
> reserving seating for 20-30 somewhere in walking distance.
> 
> * Obtain a BoF room, since this is a community event, which happens
> *during* conference sessions. This means that people would have to
> choose between this event and a session, which is unfortunate.
> 
> * Evening event, which is also difficult due to how packed every
> evening of the event is.
> 
> All three of these are possible, but each has problems. Getting a room
> at the Meridien or the Hyatt has proved to be very expensive.
> 
> So, in summary, we're still going to try really hard to do this
> meetup, but we're still unsure where and when it's going to happen.
> Thanks for your patience, and I'll be sure to let you know as soon as
> we have something more definite.

As discussed on #rdo, as a worst case - since this is a public, open
meeting, we can just meetup in the hallway somewhere (probably near the
RDO booth, if space works out).

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/kashyap