[Starlingx-discuss] [all] [forum] Forum Submissions are open!

[Adam Spiers]

Tony Breeds <tony at bakeyournoodle.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 06:51:49PM -0500, Erik McCormick wrote:
>> I would also be curious to hear from anyone who is basing their travel
>> choices on the approval status of a Forum session. I believe that this
>> number is 0, but I'm ready to be proven wrong.
>
>There are companies that only fund 'speakers' for travel and there are
>some developer types (like myself) that will be moderating forum
>sessions (hopefully) but not talking at the summit.
>
>So there certainly *are* people in this situation.

I can confirm that.  I almost missed attending Berlin because I did
not have a speaking session approved, despite having two self-healing
SIG sessions to moderate.  This nearly happened again with Denver 2019
in fact.

I suspect the problem here is not companies valuing developer sessions
less than presentations (certainly not in the case of my employer
anyway!), but rather that the Forum and PTG sessions / schedules are
determined much later than that of the main summit, by which time many
companies need to have already approved and booked travel in order to
avoid expensive flights / hotels.

Therefore I would request that if possible the idea is considered to
bring this planning forward so that it happens roughly at the same
time as the Summit.

I do appreciate that might cause unmanageably high workloads for
certain Foundation staff, but if so maybe there is a middle ground
which could work?

Cheers,
Adam