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[James Bailey <paradoxbound@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 20 October 2011 08:45, Thierry Carrez <thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> James Bailey wrote:
>> On 19 October 2011 16:29, Russell Bryant <rbryant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hopefully it works out!  I love FOSDEM.
>>>
>>> One thing that might help the application is to note that you're willing to
>>> increase the scope of the devroom if needed.  Preference is given to
>>> requests that cover a domain that includes multiple projects as opposed to
>>> requests for a single project.  So, for example, you could request an
>>> OpenStack devroom, but note that you'd also be willing to expand it to cover
>>> something like "Cloud Infrastructure", and invite other related projects to
>>> participate as well if you can't have just an OpenStack room.
>>
>> This would be something I would be very interested in.
>>
>> last year the Devops room was run pretty much by Puppet labs but they
>> covered Chef/Vagrant, Cfengine, Foreman, Gepetto even some Windows.
>> You could cover the core projects Nova, Swift, Glance and Keystone,
>> then open it up to people like Dell with Barclamp, maybe some of the
>> Storage back end folk getting involved now like Ceph or Nexenta might
>> be interested. I am sure others I can not think of are also
>> interested.
>
> That's very good feedback, thanks !
>
> I will make sure to include that in the application.

Further the Fosdem conversation, Jochen Maes @sejo_it one of the
Fosdem core team is tweeting about wanting more main track proposals,
I think Openstack should be cheeky and apply, if only so I don't have
to camp out for space in the dev room. ;)

It would be nice if who ever in the community is organising this to
post some updates as time goes on.

Jim :)