co-locate kvm-forum w/ a new ovirt forum

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/21/2012 12:01 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
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> On 02/16/2012 04:13 AM, Dor Laor wrote:
>> Karsten, who takes case to arrange an ovirt forum that would be
>> co-located w/ the upcoming kvm forum on November this year?
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> Dor,
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> Sorry, I didn't see this reply, so you can ignore my out-of-band
> request to have someone raise this idea on the board list. :) (I also
> started a new email message from scratch so the message ID doesn't get
> this discussion lost in another thread.)
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> Board,
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> I think our team at Red Hat can take the lead on organizing, although
> we'd love to work with people from any of the other organizations on
> the board. (It's another way to contribute to the project.)
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> What we need to know is:
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> 1. Does the Board want an oVirt forum or summit co-located at the KVM
> Forum?

+1 to co-locate.

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> 2. What format of event do you want? What does summit, forum, etc.
> entail in your mind?

I'd do one or two days.
question around budget, assuming we don't ask for money for it?

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> 2.1 Is the goal to present information, have a hackfest, or both?

presenting information mostly i think. maybe an hour of helping people 
setup devel/deployment environments?

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> 3. What is a likely draw for this event? It appears the last KVM Forum
> was about 150 persons, so I reckon we'd expect a fraction of that.
> What fraction?

good question. maybe make it parallel to 2nd day of kvm forum, assuming 
some may be interested in virt management, rather than low level kvm 
meetings?