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Re: OpenStack Summit Tracks & Topics

 

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Perhaps off topic, but ...
>
> One of the things I've noticed at the last couple of summits are the number of new attendees that could really use an OpenStack 101 session. Many of them are on fact-finding missions and their understanding of the architecture is 10,000'+.
>
> Usually when conf's get to this size there's a day beforehand for workshops/tutorials/getting-started stuff. I'm sure it's too late for this coming summit, but perhaps something to consider for later ones?
>
> Hands-on, code-level, devstack, configuration, debug. I'd be happy to help out with this.
+1!
>
> Thoughts?
> -S
>
> ________________________________________
> From: openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Thierry Carrez [thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 12:19 PM
> To: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] OpenStack Summit Tracks & Topics
>
> Lauren Sell wrote:
>> Speaking submissions for the conference-style content are
>> live http://www.openstack.org/summit/san-diego-2012/call-for-speakers/ (basically
>> everything except the Design Summit working sessions which will open for
>> submissions in the next few weeks), and the deadline is August 30.
>
> A bit of explanation on the contents for the "Design Summit" track:
>
> The Design Summit track is for developers and contributors to the next
> release cycle of OpenStack (codenamed "Grizzly"). Each session is an
> open discussion on a given technical theme or specific feature
> to-be-developed in one of the OpenStack core projects.
>
> Compared to previous editions, we'll run parallel to rest of the
> OpenStack Summit and just be one of the "tracks" for the general event.
> We'll run over 4 days, but there will be no session scheduled during the
> "general session" of the OpenStack Summit (first hours in the morning on
> Tuesday/Wednesday). Finally, all sessions will be 40-min long, to align
> with the rest of the event.
>
> Within the Design Summit we also used to have classic presentations
> around Devops, ecosystem and related projects: those will now have their
> own tracks in the OpenStack Summit ("Operations Summit", "Related OSS
> Projects", "Ecosystem", "Security"...), so they are no longer a subpart
> of the "Design Summit" track. The "Design Summit" will be entirely
> focused on the Grizzly cycle of official OpenStack projects, and
> entirely made of open discussions. We'll also have some breakout rooms
> available for extra workgroups and incubated projects.
>
> The sessions within the design summit are now organized around "Topics".
> The topics for the Design Summit are the core projects,
> openstack-common, Documentation and a common "Process" track to cover
> the release cycle and infrastructure. Each topic content is coordinated
> by the corresponding team lead(s).
>
> Since most developers are focused on Folsom right now, we traditionally
> open our call for sessions a bit later (should be opened first week of
> September). Contributors will be invited to suggest a topic for design
> summit sessions. After the Folsom release, each topic lead will review
> the suggestions, merge some of them and come up with an agenda for
> his/her topic. You can already see the proposed topic layout on the
> "Design Summit topics" tab in the document linked in Lauren's email.
>
> Comments/Feedback welcome !
>
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> Release Manager, OpenStack
>
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Huang Zhiteng


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