first oVirt Project workshop - where, when

Michael D Day mdday at us.ibm.com
Thu Aug 25 13:00:46 UTC 2011


project-planning-bounces at ovirt.org wrote on 08/25/2011 01:47:34 AM:
>
> So far, the focus has been on end of October or in November. Suggested
> locations:
>
> * Linuxcon Europe - Prague 26 - 28 October 2011
>   http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe
> * Silicon Valley, CA, USA (at Intel?)
> * London, UK
> * Portland, OR, USA? (at Intel)
> * Your suggestion?

The IBM site in Almaden, CA is an excellent facility in Silicon Valley and
we offer it as another option.
>
> Goals are (please add/fix):
>
> * Draw large initial attention - maximum buzz.
> * Be wide open to the world.
> * Introduce the project and architecture, do a key component walk
>   through.
> * Technical & leadership breakouts.
> * Be most useful for developers in oVirt:
> ** Hackathon.
> ** How-to sessions?
> ** Write the Big Schedule/roadmap for the year.
> * Be also useful and interesting for these audiences:
> ** Organizations of all sizes that are potential contributors.
> ** Developers who work on top of or with oVirt technologies.
> ** Systems and IT people who want to keep track of and influence the
>    future of open virtualization.
> ** Anyone interested in getting real work done in the open
>    virtualization space.
>
> This would be the first of probably annual or twice-a-year events for
> planning the oVirt roadmaps across various sub-projects.
>
> In addition, there might be regular (monthly?) developer meetup events
> with a strong workshop/hackfest theme.

Agree with all the suggestions above. I would add:

* technology proposals or introductions. A forum for participants to
introduce new projects as candidates for the oVirt community.

Thanks,

Mike

Mike Day
IBM Distinguished Engineer
Chief Virtualization Architect, Open Systems Development
Cell: +1 919 412-3900 | mdday at us.ibm.com
http://code.ncultra.org
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