[Scale-planning] Track ideas at future SCaLEs and Q about track leads

[der.hans]

Am 10. Jun, 2016 schwätzte SCALE Planning List so:

moin moin,

I don't recall getting a confirmation one way or another and want to get
moving either way.

Are Richard and I leading the enterprise track or is someone else?

ciao,

der.hans

> Am 05. Jun, 2016 schwätzte SCALE Planning List so:
>
> moin moin,
>
> Richard and I want to volunteer to run a business track, preferably
> Thursday.
>
> Business - This track highlights the importance of FOSS to business
> success including business infrastructure, product development and the
> FOSS community ecosystem.
>
> We would also like to work with or run the CxO mixter that Matti proposed
> and tie the two together.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
>> Wanted to respawn this thread as we prepare to open up our CFP.
>> 
>> Having an Open Data track sounds like a great idea, we will have this as
>> one of our tracks.
>> 
>> Generally we have enough coverage in Storage but having a dedicated track
>> would be something to try out.
>> 
>> Again, it would be great to have volunteers lead the tracks, that would
>> include recruiting potential speakers and also leading it on the day-off,
>> potentially setting up a theme for that track...
>> 
>> We will have a blurb for this in the CFP as well...
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Shyam
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:40 PM, SCALE Planning List <
>> scale-planning at lists.linuxfests.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Regarding Space in LA area, don't forget X-Prize & Virgin Galactic are
>>> also here.
>>> 
>>> In fact, the timing of this message is good.  I'm president of
>>> www.uncoded.org -- a non-profit in Long Beach that works at local
>>> connecting tech community -- and we hold a monthly tech mixer. Next week,
>>> Will Pomerantz,  Vice President of Special Projects at Virgin Galactic 
>>> (and
>>> previously with X-prize) will be our special guest.
>>> 
>>> It might make sense for one or two folks from the core SCaLE team to drop
>>> in, details: http://www.meetup.com/Uncoded/events/230279066/
>>> 
>>> Also, it's been a couple years but my web shop www.MediaDoneRight.com
>>> <http://www.mediadoneright.com/> was also helpful in building
>>> www.SpaceX.com <http://www.spacex.com/> -- I might even have a few
>>> contacts.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:55 AM SCALE Planning List <
>>> scale-planning at lists.linuxfests.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> HI,
>>>> 
>>>> Reaching out the key members of the pro-open source user community
>>>> there's a few track ideas I would like to share with everyone here.
>>>> 
>>>> A) I believe we can find volunteers to help get these tracks organized,
>>>> so that they take minimal time from the core SCaLE team.
>>>> 
>>>> B) Question on how to help make procedures / infrastructure to assist in
>>>> building these tracks.
>>>> 
>>>> Track ideas:
>>>> 1) Open Data track / Civic Open Data - I believe this would make a great
>>>> track, and that we can get the City of Pasadena, City of LA and OTHER
>>>> cities to participate. They can use this track to help supplement their
>>>> city run hack-a-thons. ( we can probably get the various Open Data SaaS
>>>> providers to sponsor the tracks )
>>>> 
>>>> 2) CTO mixer - we need imho to bring in CxOs into SCaLE to help bring
>>>> great industry support and encourage their staffs to join us. Joe Devon 
>>>> who
>>>> organizers and runs a lot of the pro-open source LA meetups is currently
>>>> running a CTO mixer meetup - and discussing this with him seems like this
>>>> would be a great fit for SCaLE. - I was thinking Thur would be a great 
>>>> day
>>>> for this... and I would expect that we can get some good sponsorship for
>>>> this.
>>>> 
>>>> 3) Space / Space Open Data - NASA just had their Space App Challenge and
>>>> it was well attended in Pasadena, as well as OC and they had events
>>>> throughout the world. The also had Open Data available for attendees, and
>>>> JPL has an Open Data proponent. With Space X also in LA we should be able
>>>> to find some great opportunities to make a "Space / Space Open Data" 
>>>> track.
>>>> We could have this be a Science Open Data track for 1 day followed by a
>>>> Civic Open Data track
>>>> 
>>>> 4) Storage track - Jordan Swartz talked to me about creating an Storage
>>>> track Thur before DevOps day. Sounded like a great idea, and he seemed 
>>>> very
>>>> interested in being the lead.
>>>> 
>>>> Qs:
>>>> How do we coordinate and empower those interested in creating good tracks
>>>> into SCaLE?
>>>> Do I ask potential leads to join the planning list?
>>>> Do we have any SaaS tools which are useful?
>>>> 
>>>> Thank You
>>>> Matti
>>>> 
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