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

[Hugh Brock]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

Is there any chance there would be room during the cross-project days
(Monday and Tuesday, IIRC) for an actual RDO dev session? I know it's
a bit strange to do this for a distro, but there are a lot of topics
-- packaging, CI, etc. -- that would benefit from exposure to the
upstream teams.

--Hugh

>> 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.
>>
>
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