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[Stephen Spector <stephen.spector@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Team:

As we all are interested in where the next event is located I thought I
would send out a recap of the meeting I had last week at the Design Summit:
> * October 2011 Event ­ We will again run a Conference and Design Summit the
> first week of October which is 2 weeks after the Diablo Release
>> * The developers are all in agreement that having the business development
>> folks is a plus
>> * There was a discussion on holding the event during code freeze of Diablo
>> but there are many complications to this idea
>> * The event will be held in the US; looking at New York, Orlando, Boston
>> * GOAL: Look at various options and have a facility chosen in late May ;
>> Planning will start in June
>> * Event Projection ­ This could easily be a 700+ person event with about 200
>> to 300 developers
> * 2012 Events 
>> * OpenStack User Event & Design Summit (April 2012)
>>> * Run a large User Event with the Design Summit running 1 or 2 days after
>>> start of User Event
>>> * Hold an exhibit hall for sponsors to promote their solutions to users
>>> * Event Projection -  this could be a 1,000 to 2,000 person event based on
>>> how we promote, location we choose, etc
>>> * More discussion needed and location/date selection needs to occur this
>>> summer
>> * OpenStack Conference and Design Summit  (October 2012)
>>> * Target Europe or Asia for this event
> Finally, the marketing of the Conference and Design Summit needs more effort
> to clarify the Conference part being for the Ecosystem partners. I will work
> on this for our October event.
Location ­ I was thinking about New York, Montreal, Boston, Washington, D.C,
Orlando, etc and am focusing on Boston as it is a large technical hub
similar to Silicon Valley and believe we should continue to take advantage
of the local community of technologists to continue growing the event and
promote OpenStack. As for Europe, the consensus in the room was that we
don't have too many developers in Europe at this time and almost everyone
would need to travel which would increase costs across the community as well
as limit the number of developers who could attend as many companies are not
allowing international travel.

I agree that holding the event in Japan would be optimal and that was the
original plan; however, we have some difficulties with high costs in Japan
and local event sponsorship at this time. The community in Japan is growing
but is not yet ready to put on an event. South Korea is another option;
however everyone will need to travel again and costs will be higher than the
US. Finally, Hawaii sounds great until you see the cost of a Diet Coke in a
hotel ­ it is just too expensive.

Please feel free to add your thoughts on this discussion. Thanks

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Stephen Spector, Rackspace
OpenStack Community Manager
stephen.spector@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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