[rdo-list] RDO at PTG or OpenStack Summit?

[Dmitry Tantsur]

On 10/31/2016 06:35 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> As you no doubt know by now ... well, I'll just quote from another list:
>
> <quote>
> As you probably already know, the OpenStack Foundation is restructuring
> its events in 2017, splitting the activities that traditionally occurred
> at the Design Summit event into work sessions (at the "Project Teams
> Gathering" at the start of the cycle) and open community discussions
> ("Forum" at the OpenStack Summit in the middle of the cycle). You can
> learn more about this at http://www.openstack.org/ptg
> </quote>
>
> At the last several OpenStack Summits, the RDO community has hosted some
> kind of meetup, and of course last week, we had an evening gathering
> that we shared with the Ceph community, where we had 215 people in
> attendance.
>
> With OpenStack Summit splitting in two, I'm left uncertain what, if
> anything, I should be planning for 2017. Will most of the RDO community
> attend the PTG, or OpenStack Summit? At which one of these does it make
> the most sense to try to do an RDO gathering, if at all?

People refuse to agree with that, but speaking realistically, you cannot expect 
a huge developer's attendance on summits any more. I personally only plan to be 
at PTGs from now on, unless my employer has some different plans for me ;)

I'd like to second the idea of having a technical meetup at PTGs.

> I can see good arguments for each, including my personal travel plans
> ;-) but I would like to hear from the rest of you - if I try to do
> another event like what we did Tuesday evening in Barcelona, which event
> makes more sense?
>
> Thanks.
>