On 11/24/2014 3:39 PM, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2014-09-08T12:30:23, "Fabio M. Di Nitto" <fdinitto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Folks, Fabio, > > thanks for organizing this and getting the ball rolling. And again sorry > for being late to said game; I was busy elsewhere. > > However, it seems that the idea for such a HA Summit in Brno/Feb 2015 > hasn't exactly fallen on fertile grounds, even with the suggested > user/client day. (Or if there was a lot of feedback, it wasn't > public.) > > I wonder why that is, and if/how we can make this more attractive? > > Frankly, as might have been obvious ;-), for me the venue is an issue. > It's not easy to reach, and I'm theoretically fairly close in Germany > already. > > I wonder if we could increase participation with a virtual meeting (on > either those dates or another), similar to what the Ceph Developer > Summit does? > > Those appear really productive and make it possible for a wide range of > interested parties from all over the world to attend, regardless of > travel times, or even just attend select sessions (that would otherwise > make it hard to justify travel expenses & time off). > > > Alternatively, would a relocation to a more connected venue help, such > as Vienna xor Prague? > > > I'd love to get some more feedback from the community. I agree. some feedback would be useful. > > As Fabio put it, yes, I *can* suck it up and go to Brno if that's where > everyone goes to play ;-), but I'd also prefer to have a broader > participation. dates and location were chosen to piggy-back with devconf.cz and allow people to travel for more than just HA Summit. I´d prefer, at least for this round, to keep dates/location and explore the option to allow people to join remotely. Afterall there are tons of tools between google hangouts and others that would allow that. Fabio -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
