Replacing a 3 days face to face summit by an
online meeting will not benefit the community, I think its very good if we
can keep the face to face event.
Many people dial-in but they typically work on
something else, we do not have the evening/lunch event when people can
discuss further, etc.
Looking at other open source projects/foundations they
do a lot of co-located events (e.g LinuxCon and Tracing Summit), I had a
quick chat with Ian from the Eclipse Foundation, he thinks it's a good
idea to co-locate the summit with EclipseCon, possibly Thursday/Friday as
long as we plan ahead to ensure we have a conf room available
at http://reston.hyatt.com (as program
chair, I am sure you can make it happen).
Co-locating with EclipseCon has a few
benefits:
- Less travel (EclipseCon + Summit same
place/date)
- No sponsors/funding to find
- No local logistics (room, special events,
lunch, dinner, etc.)
- more developers are likely to come
- Reston is 8.5 hours drive from
Toronto
- etc.
The only down side I see is it's not a good timing to
plan for the next release so we could do as you suggested i.e. an online
meeting in September but hopefully a short one maybe half a day to
start and then we can see if we need extra ones for specific topics e.g.
multi-core debug.
Co-locating with EclipseCon seems quite future proof to
me, what do you think?
I agree. The time is
pretty short to organize a full blown summit in September. But, we still
need to have planning meetings to set the agenda for CDT in
Juno.
What I’d like to propose
is an eSummit instead using a conference bridge and Webex. I was thinking
of a block of four hours running noon-3 Ottawa time (give or take), which
allows for evening in Europe and morning in California. We could start
with two days like that and expand if needed.
I would then propose that
we have a CDT get-together at EclipseCon next March. We had a really nice
multi-core meeting last year and could do that for CDT in general. We
could do it for a couple of hours and be separate from the BOF which is a
more open meeting.
What do you
think?
Doug.
Hi
Doug,
It's
not easy to plan/organize the CDT summit in the middle of
summer for a date in Sept/Oct:
-
many people are on vacation, it's hard to get developers to
register;
-
organizing the logistic in the middle of summer was not easy for us
last year again because of many people on vacations and it was hard to get
big conf room for Sept;
- in
July many people are already booked for business trips in the
fall e.g. myself, Elena, Marc, etc. if know more in advanced it
will be easier to plan around the summit date;
-
fall is a busy time of the year for many people, May/June is the Eclipse
release crunch and March is EclipseCon...;
To
get more developers to join the summit we
could either:
-
do the plan/organization after the Eclipse release and held the summit in
Dec/Jan
-
do the plan/org in May and held the summit in
Sept/Oct
-
looking back at last March EclipseCon we could investigate if we
can do it Thursday and Friday (http://www.eclipsecon.org/2011/program/?programdate=2011-03-24)
-
we could even investigate if we can do it together with the GCC summit
(http://www.gccsummit.org)
Best
Regards,
Dominique
From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Behalf Of Schaefer, Doug
Sent: 8-Jul-11
14:20
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Subject:
[cdt-dev] Summit 2011
Hey gang,
Just a reminder to sign up for CDT Summit 2011 at http://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/summitfall2011.
Notice a few signed up already. The more that show interest, the more
we’ll realize we really need to have one again J.
Cheers,
Doug.
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