[opensolaris-summit] Schedule Updates & Moderation and Goals

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

*Summit Updates*
I've made another bunch of refreshes to the schedule based on the planning
discussions this morning, and we've tried hard to accommodate everyone -

  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/summit/

I think we're getting close to having something that will be really useful to
set the scope of the weekend, while still providing the flexibility of a
traditional unconference style summit. Tell me what you think.

*Moderation*
As many of you have already noticed, there's names beside each session. I've
done that for a few reasons - not only does it provide an opportunity for me to
figure out the best slots for each track (and hopefully making sure the right
stakeholders are in the room), but also to request that we have some moderators
taking some responsibility for that session.

The idea of a moderator is to guide discussion through various sub-topics to
successful completion, and make sure it reaches the goals that have been for
that session. The obvious question is how best to define a set of goals.

There might be many ways of achieving this, but one way might be to propose a
set of goals before the summit as moderator. For an example [1], with the
'Release Planning' session, I might propose the following -

 o Understanding of what a time based release is
 o Understanding the Indiana 6 month cadence proposal
 o Understanding of what release practices and timeframes are currently used
   by different consolidations - ON, X, SFW, Install, JDS, CCD, others?
 o Understanding of what release practices and timeframes are currently used
   by different products - Solaris 10, Solaris Express, Nexenta, BeleniX,
   others?
 o Understanding what technical or social boundaries are connected with the
   existing release management processes - ARC, C-Team, PAC, P-Team
 o Proposal detailing required steps to get consolidations coordinated on a
   single timeframe.

with the hope of having a well documented discussion (written up by the
moderator, or volunteer), with a set of well defined actionable next steps.
While next steps may not always be achievable, we can at least try and cover a
lot of ground and information transfer both to those attending and those that
cannot make it.

Again, let me know what you think. There may be better approaches, but least of
all, I'd encourage you to really think about what you want to see from the summit.



Glynn

[1] Let's not go off on a tangent here