17:01:06 <gregdek> #startmeeting Events, 12 April 2012
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17:01:13 <gregdek> #meetingname Events
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17:01:18 <gregdek> #topic Roll Call
17:01:23 <gregdek> Who's here for Events?
17:01:32 <Denise_> Denise is here
17:01:35 <gregdek> Looks like we lost rprasanna, boo
17:01:38 <gregdek> Hey Denise_
17:02:11 <nelli> hi!!
17:02:19 <noirin> \o
17:02:51 <shaon> o/
17:03:37 <gregdek> Hey all.
17:03:58 <gregdek> OK, some housecleaning to do before we get to the events:
17:04:03 <gregdek> #topic New Event Calendar
17:04:20 <gregdek> Denise_: want to talk about the new event calendar on the main site?
17:04:32 <Denise_> Sure!
17:05:13 <Denise_> at www.eucalyptus.com/news/events you will see the full listing of events where we are sponsoring and/or speaking
17:05:28 <Denise_> if something is missing from that list, please email me the details and I'll add it
17:05:45 <gregdek> hey rprasanna, welcome back :)
17:05:52 <gregdek> Thanks Denise_.
17:06:13 <gregdek> So that means that we're no longer going to use the gcal as the definitive event listing; we're going to use this new calendar instead.
17:06:16 <rprasanna> Thank you... ;)
17:06:45 <gregdek> #action gregdek to change link on Events project page to the new calendar on Euca page
17:07:22 <gregdek> Denise_: that page is way prettier. :)
17:07:36 <Denise_> Thanks! I'll let the web team know :)
17:07:56 <gregdek> Any questions about the new calendar?
17:07:58 <gregdek> www.eucalyptus.com/news/events
17:07:59 * shaon like the new event page :)
17:08:13 <gregdek> It's definitely nicer. :)
17:08:35 * gregdek waits a bit...
17:08:45 <noirin> Just from a community standpoint, having a Google Calendar makes it easier to copy stuff in, see stuff alongside your own events etc
17:09:04 <noirin> I know the joys of maintaining the same information in two places, but wanted to mention it
17:09:15 <shaon> +1 noirin, that can be an addon
17:09:25 <noirin> I think that would be great
17:10:02 <noirin> Any kind of iCalendar feed really, doesn't specifically have to be Google
17:10:16 <gregdek> I would rather have a place for community folks to put events directly into the one calendar, if we can figure that out.
17:10:38 <gregdek> noirin: or are you talking about the exportability of ical/gcal?
17:11:00 <gregdek> Got it.
17:11:02 * gregdek nods.
17:11:05 <noirin> gregdek: I was specifically meaning the exportability, but both are issues?
17:11:11 <gregdek> That's definitely on the feature list.
17:11:23 <noirin> Anyway, I think a community calendar and an official "$bigBoss is speaking at $event" are different things, so don't let the one detract from the other :-)
17:11:27 <gregdek> Or, it should be.
17:11:38 <rprasanna> The link page is nice...
17:11:44 <gregdek> noirin: yeah, this is tricky, largely because it's a continuum.
17:11:52 <gregdek> I like the way that the new page has categories of events.
17:12:14 <gregdek> "Speaking Engagement" or "See Eucalyptus", etc.
17:12:30 <gregdek> Would love to add community category or categories here.
17:12:41 <dfederlein> where's the section for Elastic Pants world tour? ;)
17:12:42 <rprasanna> Yeah it is well formatted page....
17:12:55 <noirin> The official page does look great :-)
17:12:55 <gregdek> dfederlein: talk with our agent. ;)
17:12:59 <dfederlein> lol
17:13:00 <dfederlein> ok
17:13:18 <Denise_> we can ask about adding a community category
17:13:20 <gregdek> But noirin, it is an excellent point.
17:13:41 <gregdek> Denise_: how about a "virtual event" category?  Because EucaDay is going to have a virtual element.
17:14:31 <Denise_> Not sure about that one, as EucaDay is primarily a live event. We don't want to make it too complex.
17:14:59 <rprasanna> gregdek : what about RACSS conference? are you coming ?
17:15:11 <Denise_> We have talked about having a Meetup/EucaDay category
17:15:14 <gregdek> rprasanna: don't know yet. We'll get to that, be patient. :)
17:15:18 <noirin> Denise_: Like gregdek said, I think there's a (long!) continuum. If we had a completely open community calendar, it might be relevant to know that I'm giving an open advice session at a Perl conference, and if people want to ask about Euca, I'm around. That's never going to be on that page, no matter what categories we have :-)
17:16:05 <gregdek> So perhaps, for now, we should have "meetup" as a catchall for every event that isn't clearly in another category.
17:16:34 <Denise_> noirin_OK, let me see if we can set up a community category
17:17:24 <gregdek> (one sec, sorry)
17:18:16 <gregdek> Back.
17:18:17 <gregdek> OK.
17:18:36 <gregdek> #action Denise_ will look into community category for Events page
17:19:03 <gregdek> I'm sure we'll be talking more about this process, too, since it impacts how we get events on the calendar -- but to some degree we can figure it out as we go along.
17:19:07 <gregdek> So, moving on. :)
17:19:13 <gregdek> #topic New Event Requests
17:19:27 <gregdek> Moving this to the front of the queue today, since rprasanna has an event request!
17:19:33 <gregdek> rprasanna: tell us about your event. :)
17:21:18 <gregdek> rprasanna: are you there?
17:21:38 <rprasanna> RACSS is international conference conducted in SSN college ,Tamil nadu and I heard that Eucalyptus team is conducting a workshop.
17:22:40 <gregdek> I don't see jeevan_ullas... rprasanna, have you talked with him about this?  What's the date, do you know?
17:23:17 <gregdek> Do we have a date and a url?
17:23:54 <rprasanna> Yeah he only told about this workshop and I thought euca team will be coming for the event...
17:24:49 <gregdek> rprasanna: right. So we need more info on this...
17:25:36 <rpv2892> yeah sure... :) http://www.racss2012.com/schedule.htm
17:25:40 <gregdek> Got it.
17:25:42 * gregdek looks.
17:26:15 <gregdek> Ah, this is a Shashi event!
17:26:49 <gregdek> OK, rprasanna / rpv2892, Shashi is one of our excellent product guys.
17:26:56 <gregdek> So he will be there.  Unknown if others will be there.
17:27:15 <rpv2892> ok fine ... :)
17:28:11 <gregdek> We should also prepare to send t-shirts, schwag, etc.  I will reach out to Shashi to figure out his plans and go from there.  I will also tell him that you are interested in meeting, yes?
17:29:27 <rpv2892> In our college International conference is happening on April 19-21,2012... link: http://www.annauniv.edu/icrtit2012/
17:29:31 * lwade arrives late
17:29:36 <gregdek> Hey lwade.
17:29:50 <lwade> hey gregdek, all
17:30:20 <gregdek> OK.
17:30:36 <gregdek> #action gregdek will reach out to shashi to share plans for racss2012
17:30:52 <gregdek> Denise_: is that on your list anywhere?
17:30:55 <Denise_> gregdek - Puneeth is creating some swag locally, to save on shipping costs
17:31:10 <gregdek> Ah, great. So you're tracking this one? Or is this just in general?
17:31:10 <Denise_> it's not on the list yet, I'll add it today
17:31:17 <Denise_> just in general :)
17:31:19 <gregdek> Thx Denise.
17:31:34 <gregdek> #action Denise_ will at racss to events page
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17:31:44 <gregdek> #action Denise_ will add racss to events page
17:32:25 <gregdek> rpv2892: Tell me about icrtit2012...
17:33:36 <gregdek> Is there a particular way we can participate here?
17:34:15 <rpv2892> ICRTIT 2012 is about Recent trends in Information Technology.
17:35:57 <gregdek> rpv2892: I think it may be a little soon to make plans here.
17:36:05 <gregdek> So we will focus on the RACSS event.  OK?
17:36:49 <rpv2892> Three workshops are conducted ...foreign delegates have entry fee of $100 and $200
17:37:47 <gregdek> rpv2892: we're running short on time, so I'm going to move on to our Committed Events.
17:37:51 <rpv2892> Ok fine
17:37:56 <gregdek> #topic Committed Events
17:38:57 <gregdek> #topic EucaDay
17:39:15 <gregdek> Denise_: on final approach? :)
17:39:51 <Denise_> Next week: Cloud Fair Seattle, AWS Summit NYC, and NAB
17:39:56 <Denise_> all looking good
17:40:23 <gregdek> Denise_: ok. We will talk them up.  :)
17:40:33 <Denise_> EucaDay is shaping up.  139 registrants, and a new email blast went out today
17:40:50 <gregdek> Woo hoo!
17:41:44 <obino> awesome :)
17:42:07 <gregdek> OK, I've got another meeting pressing me here, so if anyone else has any big event issue they want to talk about:
17:42:13 <gregdek> #topic Open Floor
17:42:53 <gregdek> The floor is open. :)
17:44:40 * gregdek waits.
17:44:45 <obino> lol
17:44:52 <gregdek> :)
17:45:26 <obino> gregdek: the only 2 events pressing I think are USD and OpenStack both in the bay
17:46:32 <gregdek> obino: are they on the calendar? /me looks.
17:46:35 <nelli> obino: are you going to the openstack conf?
17:47:00 <obino> nelli: not quite sure yet: I have some personal thing to clear out
17:47:08 <obino> as of now I may be able to go
17:47:11 <obino> are you going?
17:47:15 <nelli> ok!
17:47:40 <nelli> if you are, then I might not :)
17:47:48 <nelli> is Andrew coming too?
17:47:51 <obino> you should no matter what
17:48:00 <obino> not sure about cpt_yesterday
17:48:25 <cpt_yesterday> cpt_yesterday isn't doing conferences anymore
17:48:41 <obino> cpt_yesterday: have you been put in the penalty box?
17:49:04 <gregdek> cpt_yesterday: nice win for the Kings last night btw.
17:49:45 <cpt_yesterday> gregdek: It was awesome
17:49:50 <gregdek> obino: USD?
17:49:57 <gregdek> You mean UDS?
17:50:13 <obino> gregdek: you should know my spelling capabilities by now ...
17:50:41 <gregdek> Just making sure. :)
17:50:51 <gregdek> OK.
17:51:10 <gregdek> Brian Thomasen is going to UDS, so that's covered.
17:51:19 <gregdek> OpenStack conference: we need someone there wandering around.
17:51:34 <obino> nelli?
17:51:34 <gregdek> obino, cpt_yesterday, if that isn't either of you, we should put out the Bat Signal.
17:51:42 <gregdek> I'd like to have someone with technical depth.
17:51:55 <gregdek> So that when geeks start walking up and asking questions, we have technical answers.
17:51:59 <obino> from my experience we may need both
17:52:16 <obino> there are very different level of converstaions
17:53:08 <gregdek> Sure.
17:53:23 <gregdek> So this is still open.
17:53:58 <nelli> lemme know what you decide! :)
17:54:02 <cpt_yesterday> It would be nice to give the super techies a little more freedom from booth duty too
17:54:14 <obino> cpt_yesterday: there is no booth
17:54:23 <cpt_yesterday> Okay
17:54:29 <cpt_yesterday> But in the future too
17:54:47 <gregdek> cpt_yesterday: agreed.
17:54:59 <gregdek> OpenStack show is totally free agent land.
17:56:29 <gregdek> OK, winding up.
17:56:39 <gregdek> #action gregdek to ask around for OpenStack conference attendee
17:56:45 <gregdek> Anything else urgent?
17:56:54 * gregdek apologies for having been a bit distracted here.
17:59:07 <cpt_yesterday> gregdek: If you can't find anyone else to go I'll go. I'd just rather not have to go if someone else is willing. I would much rather have us there though than us not because no one was willing to go.
18:01:48 <gregdek> cpt_yesterday: thanks, will consider.
18:02:04 <gregdek> And with that, I will call it a meeting.
18:02:06 <gregdek> #endmeeting