[opensolaris-summit] Schedule Updates & Moderation and Goals

Jesse Silver Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM
Wed Oct 3 14:52:21 PDT 2007


That plan looks fantastic to me.

Michelle Olson wrote:
> Hi Glynn,
>
> Thanks for all of your time to set up this schedule. I have given some 
> thought to what I'd like to see and wrote it up for folks to think 
> about. Here goes, if unreadable in email, I'll post to a web page.
>
> Schedule Proposal
> OSOL Dev Summit
> version: alpha, 10.3.2007
>
> This document describes a proposed schedule of activities for the OSOL
> summit that focuses on 'putting to work' the Community/Project organization
> of opensolaris.org toward a release that incorporates contributions
> from 22 communities represented at the summit and integration of as many 
> projects or more.
>
>
> Day1, Oct 13th
> --------------
>
> 9-9:30         Keynote, Ian Murdock
>
> 9:30-10     State of OGB, status & challenges
>
> 10-1        Community Panels & Demos
>         (1 hour per grouping, 20 min per bullet item)
>        
> -Contributors: Dennis Clark, Jeorg Schilling, Eric Hamilton, Martin 
> Bochnig, Phillip Brown, Roland Mainz
> -Academics: UCSC, UC Merced, Technical Univ. Berlin, USC, JHU, JSSATE, U 
> of Northern BC
> -Partners: PostgreSQL, Twitter, Intel, Blastwave, Joyent, cuddletech, 
> 4Front, Boeing, Intel, Fraunhofer Fokus, Wipro, Logical Approach, Songbird
>
> -CommunitiesA: ON, Install & Packaging, Approachability, Arch
> -CommunitiesB: Device Drivers, Laptop, X Window
> -CommunitiesC: Storage, ZFS, Security, Zones
>
> -CommunitiesD: Desktop, Tools, Games, Xen
> -CommunitiesE: Sysadmin, Test, SMF
> -CommunitiesF: Advocacy, Academic, Website, Docs
>        
> Lunch
>
> 2-4        Project Breakouts w/ Facilitator
>         -CommunitiesA&C: Ian
>             -New Installer
>             -Image Package
>             -Conary?
>             -Slim Install
>             -Snap Upgrade
>             -Network Repository
>             -others?
>            
>         -CommunitiesB&D: Glynn
>             -GNU userspace
>             -Desktop
>             -FOX
>             -Drivers & Laptop support
>             -Sun Studio
>             -others?
>            
>         -CommunitiesE&F: Jesse & Sara
>             -Test
>             -SMF
>             -Press & Communication Plans
>             -System Administration
>             -others?
>            
> 4-4:30        Snack break & re-mix   
>
> 4:30-6:30   Project Breakouts w/ Facilitator (cont.)
>
>          -CommunitiesA&C: Ian
>             -Distro Constructor
>             -Virtualized install
>             -Patching
>             -ZFS Boot
>             -ksh93
>             -LiveMedia
>             -others?
>            
>         -CommunitiesB&D: Glynn
>             -Open Sound
>             -SFW
>             -Power Mgmt
>             -Web Stack
>             -cdrtool
>             -star
>             -others?
>            
>         -CommunitiesE&F: Sara & Jesse
>             -Website re-design
>             -Starter Kit
>             -Curriculum
>             -HowTos & Guides & FAQs
>             -others?
>            
> Day2, Oct 14th
> --------------
>
> 9-10         Release Management -Glynn
>
> 10-1        Project Plan Breakouts w/ Facilitator
>         (Community groups develop straw plans for 2 weeks, 2 months & 5 
> months, hand-off to Ian to draft roadmap)
>        
> Lunch
>
> 2-4         Architecture -John
> 4-5        Branding, Acknowlegement, Advocacy -Sara
> 5-6        Roadmap of phases through Go/NoGo on March ballot -Ian
>
> Thoughts? I'm offline for a bit, but wanted to get this out there today.
>
> Thanks,
> Michelle
>
>
>
>
> Glynn Foster wrote:
>
>   
>> 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
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