Re: Do people want a Developer Meeting on Aug 24th (before Dev Summit)

[Neil Sikka <neilsikka@gmail.com>]

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Hey guys, is anything happening today regarding a meeting or going out for
lunch if people arrive a day early?

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 8:43 AM, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > On 23 Jun 2016, at 12:39, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 23/06/16 12:33, Lars Kurth wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> do you guys want to hold a Developer Meeting on Aug 24th (before Dev
> Summit). I do have space to do this, but last year's was very poorly
> attended. If you could get back to me with an opinion, that would help
> hugely. Alternatively it would also be possible to use the space for more
> focused meetings with fewer people. In that case, I would need a number of
> suggestions for meetings including meeting leaders.
> >>
> >> Please have a look at the schedule http://events.linuxfoundation.
> org/events/xen-project-developer-summit/program/schedule ... note that on
> the 26th, I kept the 2nd room free and was planning to use the Hackathon
> format in parallel to the talks in the main program. rather than having
> BoFs interspersed with talks. Some of the slots could be used to host the
> developer meeting, of desired.
> >
> > So to a large degree, the actual nuts-and-bolts planning which that
> > meeting was meant to cover happens now at the "hackathons" instead.
> > It's important I think, however, for the XenSummit to have a venue for
> > people in the industry who may not know about the Hackathons (or for
> > whatever reason can't come to them) to raise issues with the core
> > developers and have them discussed.
> >
> > If the parallel track could actually fulfill that role, then I think it
> > would be enough; the key would be making sure that the appropriate
> > attention could be attracted.
>
> That's why I asked. Maybe we can come up with a short list of topics that
> need to be discussed and are worthwhile for the developer meetings.
>
> The idea behind using the Hackathon scheduling methodology for the
> parallel track is an experiment to make assigning of topics to space mor
> effective than in the past.
>
> I don't have an opinion one way or another. We can have a developer
> meeting as well. Just shout and I will set it up.
>
> Lars
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