Re: Venue change for bake-a-thon June 2017

[Bill Baker <bill.baker@oracle.com>]

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@oracle.com - registration, facilities
>> Chad.Wasinger@oracle.com - 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