Hi Bill, I can't make it this time due to conflicting meeting. Tigran. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Baker" <bill.baker@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Steve Dickson" <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx>, nfsv4@xxxxxxxx > Cc: "tina hartshorn" <tina.hartshorn@xxxxxxxxxx>, "linux-nfs" <linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 5:31:04 PM > Subject: Re: [nfsv4] Venue change for bake-a-thon June 2017 > Hi, Steve, > > thanks for your feedback, comments at the bottom. > > On 05/10/17 10:02, Steve Dickson wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On 04/20/2017 07:42 AM, Bill Baker wrote: >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> After some discussion with Andy Adamson and others, I've >>> decided to offer the the Agnews auditorium on Oracle's >>> Santa Clara campus for this year's June bake-a-thon. This >>> is the same facility used to host connectathon the last several >>> years. >>> >>> I've reserved the auditorium for the week of June 26th. >>> >>> Much as I like downtown Ann Arbor, the auditorium offers >>> more than ample space in a comfortable facility. We would >>> like to continue the momentum of testing NFSoRDMA and the >>> extra equipment is not very practical at the workantile. >>> >>> The usual suspects will be running the event: >>> >>> Tina.Hartshorn@xxxxxxxxxx - registration, facilities >>> Chad.Wasinger@xxxxxxxxxx - network setup >>> >>> If you have concerns with this plan, please voice them >>> here on-list, or to me privately. Last thing I would want >>> to do is discourage participation via this venue change. >>> >>> Feel free to forward this to other interested parties. >> Unfortunately, the people on the Red Hat team is having >> a very hard time finding reasonable airfares to the >> West coast. Instead of $300 or $400 its well over >> $1000 which is causing push back by our management. >> >> I, personally, have been looking for the last a couple >> weeks, hoping the the prices would come down but they >> have not... They have not gone up, but they have >> not come down. >> >> So at this point it looks like the Red Hat team >> will not be attend this BAT, which is disappointing >> because the timing actually worked out well with our >> internal scheduling. >> >> With that said, I had every intention after this BAT >> of announcing the date Fall BAT for the last week >> in Sept (25th to 29th). Hopefully at this point >> airfares will be more reasonable so it will be >> well attended. I will make a more official >> announcement later on... > > > I understand completely. > > Perhaps it is time to drop back to just 2 events per year, > connectathon and Fall BAT hosted by RedHat. > > Would anyone be opposed to that? Time to speak up is now. > I'm on the hook for the auditorium. > > Sorry for all the re-planning, we should have discussed this > during connectathon. > > -- > Bill Baker, Oracle ZFSSA/NFS development > > _______________________________________________ > nfsv4 mailing list > nfsv4@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nfsv4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
