Hi Alan, the Plugfest has been announced around the same time as OGF 33 and is co-located with the Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara at the same time as OGF 33. This is not optimal, but it may enable the OCCI WG to jointly participate on the Cloud Plugfest from Lyon. The discussion for another location came up during the last Plugfest between Mark Carlson and me and during some larger discussions, we decided to establish another location in europe to enable people who can't visit the US to attend the Plugfest as well. This was not related to the F2F meeting proposal by Alexander Papaspyrou. I asked NetApp, because several people from our group are working on OCCI as well as CDMI who like to attend the Plugfest but can't travel to Lyon. Besides, bringing everyone to OGF would be much too expensive for our group and probably for people from Alexanders group as well. We also had interest from people outside the OCCI WG who like to drop by if there is an event in Düsseldorf. I don't see any large impact or scattering for either OGF nor the Cloud Plugfest. Everyone actively involved in the OCCI WG will travel to Lyon and participate in the sessions there. People interested in OCCI and CDMI now have more options to participate or get to know about OCCI and CDMI. Having only few physical participants was an issue for the last Plugfests and at least I hope that it can be improved by offering more locations (then Santa Clara, Lyon and Düsseldorf) to meet in person. If the OCCI sessions take place on wednesday, I will travel to Lyon on Tuesday evening and attend on wednesday. If there are additional sessions before or after wednesday I'll try to attend them as well. Cheers, Florian Am 26.08.11 23:33 schrieb "Alan Sill" unter <Alan.Sill@ttu.edu>:
Hi Florian,
Was this in place of the OCCI sessions at Lyon the same week?
If possible, I think we should try to avoid scheduling these in conflict. Joel is finalizing the schedule, and OCCI-WG has requested meeting space beyond the already scheduled sessiosn Wednesday Sep. 21.
Note OGF 33 is Sep. 19-21 in Lyon and the EGI Technical Forum and Grid 2011 continue the rest of that week.
Can I suggest that the generous offer of NetApp be perhaps reserved for another opportunity, and that we try for space (or a concurrent event) at OGF 33?
Thanks!
Alan
On Aug 26, 2011, at 4:40 AM, florian.feldhaus@tu-dortmund.de wrote:
As announced yesterday in the Cloud Plugfest planning meeting, NetApp has been so kind to offer rooms in their Düsseldorf office to allow participants from Europe to also physically attend the Cloud Plugfest.
Here are the details regarding the Düsseldorf location: - the Cloud Plugfest will start on Monday September 19 at 9am CEST (Central European Summer Time) and end on Wednesday September 21 at 6pm. - directions can be found under [1] and [2] - nearby hotels are [3] and [4] - wireless network will be provided - telco system and projector are available - basic catering will be provided by NetApp - up to 20 persons may attend - schedule is: * Plugfest Participant Setup - Monday Sept. 19 starting at 9am CEST (Central European Summer Time).
* Plugfesting Begins - Monday Sept. 19 at 10am CEST. * Plugfest Lab open from 9am-6pm
* Plugfest Ends - Wednesday Sept. 21 at 5:30pm CEST. * Plugfest SyncUp TelCo - daily at 5:30pm * Plugfest Participant Breakdown - Wednesday Sept. 21 at 5:30pm-6pm.
Could you please update the Cloud Plugfest webpages with the new location, the schedule and how to get there? Is anything missing?
Bengt Lassen (blassen@netapp.com) is the responsible person from NetApp to coordinate the event. Please put him on CC for any further questions.
Best regards, Florian Feldhaus
[1] http://media.netapp.com/documents/dir-duesseldorf-en.pdf (english) [2] http://www.netapp-de.de/anfahrt/Duesseldorf.pdf (german) [3] http://www.lindner.de/de/AIR [4] http://www.airporthotelduesseldorf.de/
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