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[Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 June 2012 12:50, Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:57:14AM -0500, Paul Larson wrote:
>> > Now, if we're unable to have a proper backlog in place, it'll be quite
>> > hard and time consuming to get the "remote" sessions going.
>> >
>> Following last week's non-virtualized connect, I wanted to restart this
>> thread.  Regarding the next Linaro connect, I've heard 2 options in the air:
>> 1. virtual connect - see issues already discussed in this thread
>
> I don't really think there's anything that prevents us from doing a
> "Virtual Connect" if we are prepared to be somewhat flexible about the
> definition. It would be an interesting experiment and certainly avoids
> us doing no checkpoint summit for such a long time.
>
>> 2. smaller team sprints - save on the big event costs
>> Of the two options, #2 seems to be a much better choice but has the obvious
>> downside of having no cross-team collaboration.  In particular, if we go
>> this route, we also need to consider the larger, cross-team efforts such as
>> the various big.little projects going on.
>
> There's also nothing that stops us from doing smaller sprints even if we
> /do/ run a virtual connect, though. And to your point about cross-team
> work, there's no reason why the sprint needs to be done along team
> boundaries - in fact, the most important thing for the sprint is to have
> a clear purpose and outcome.

+1

I'd like to expand on this and bring up that I think Connect needs to move
away from planning based on individual teams to cross-organizational
tracks. I think this will alleviate of the scheduling pressure we had this time
and create a more cohesive experience for everyone involved. So instead
of having a bunch of random sessions in one day, we could have 3 tracks per
day (ex: Android Upstreaming, Neon Optimizations, KVM) and we can have
sessions from any groups that are relevant to that topic. This would mean
that on certain days some groups may not have a session scheduled but
I think that's OK.

(This was originally Amit's idea he shared with me, I'm just expanding on the
 details)

~Deepak