Mohammed, I can't answer for the CFPs (I'm waiting on those too) but I can share some of the requirements for a North American location as a member of the organizing group: Helena is targeting 200-500 people so she would like a place for keynotes that could hold that many people in one location or have a spillover room. There would also need to be rooms for breakouts, most likely 2-4 but depending on attendance and CFP could be more. The location should be easy to reach which Montreal is, and should be affordable for the organizers and visitors. I think we would also need reasonable catering for coffee breaks and maybe lunch on site, not sure lunch on site is a deal breaker though. One thing from me as chair of the D&I WG is that it should be accessible and welcoming to all members of our communities. Amy On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 10:10 AM Mohammed Naser <mnaser@vexxhost.com> wrote:

Hi Helena!

Thank you for these updates, they're awesome. One of the things we'd really like is to know where the CFP is, since we'd love to talk more about Atmosphere, how we operate our clouds at scale. We've got interest in the following right now:

- OpenInfra Days Sweden - OpenInfra Days Germany - OpenInfra Days France - Switzerland Meetup

For the OpenStack Days in North America, we'd be more than happy to be involved in the planning and logistics of making it happen... maybe Montreal?

For all those events, we're looking to also have a small sponsorship as well to gather some exposure as well. I wanted to introduce @Dana Cazacu <dana.cazacu@vexxhost.com> from our team who's working on marketing stuff and she's very excited to get involved, so I'll hand that over to her to start looking into driving and discussing those events moving forward – but I'll stay in the loop 🙂

Thank you, Mohammed ------------------------------ *From:* Helena Spease <helena@openinfra.dev> *Sent:* February 9, 2024 1:27 PM *To:* foundation@lists.openinfra.dev <foundation@lists.openinfra.dev> *Subject:* [OpenInfra Foundation] [OpenInfra Event Update] OpenInfra Summit Asia reg price, OpenInfra Meetup Switzerland reg is open and expected attendee numbers

You don't often get email from helena@openinfra.dev. Learn why this is important <https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> Hi everyone! We have some new updates regarding both the OpenInfra Summit Asia and OpenInfra Days Europe! If you have any questions feel free to email me or reach out to events@openinfra.dev The current 2024 events updates/status is as follows:

——— NEW EVENT UPDATES——— OpenInfra Summit Asia: The CfP and registration for the OpenInfra Summit Asia is currently being built and will be available very soon. Registration will be 70,000 KRW ($60 USD) + fees.

OpenInfra Days Europe and North America: The registration for the OpenInfra Meetup Switzerland (6 June), hosted by CERN, is now open[1]! The day before the meetup (5 June) CERN will host a Bare Metal SIG/Ironic Meetup. Registration for this meetup is also now open[2].

Expected Attendee Numbers I received some questions on how big each of these events would be, so I have included expected attendee numbers below. The predicted attendee numbers are based on the maximum capacity for these venues.

——— EVENT STATUS——— PTG - Date: 8-12 April 2024 - Location: Virtual - Signup your team (closes February 18): https://openinfrafoundation.formstack.com/forms/april2024_ptg_survey

OpenInfra Days Sweden - Date: 7 May 2024 - Location: Volvohallen, Gothenburg, Sweden - Expected Attendees: 280

Sovereign Cloud Stack Summit x OpenInfra Days Germany - Date: 14 & 15 May 2024 - Location: Villa Elisabeth, Berlin, Germany - Expected Attendees: 250

OpenInfra Days Turkiye - Date: 20 May 2024 - Location: Albert Long Hall Cultural Center, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkiye - Expected Attendees: 400 - Sponsor: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VI9BbhP2sOWD6QZDAsloElJRuTNif7LL/view - Register: https://openinfraturkiye.org.tr/event-registration/

OpenInfra Days France - Date: May 2024 - Expected Attendees: 300 - Location: coming soon

UK Meetup - Date: May 2024 - Location: Coming soon - Expected Attendees: TBD

Switzerland Meetup - Date: 6 June 2024 - Location: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland - Expected Attendees: 72 - Register: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1376907/

Regional OpenInfra Summit Asia - Date: 3-4 September 2024 - Location: Suwon Convention Center, Suwon, Korea - Expected Attendees: 1,500 - Sponsor: https://openinfra.dev/events/sponsorship

OpenInfra Days North America - Date: Q4 2024 - Location: Coming soon - Expected Attendees: TBD

If you have any questions, email us at events@openinfra.dev!

Cheers, Helena

helena@openinfra.dev Community Programs Coordinator The OpenInfra Foundation

[1] https://indico.cern.ch/e/openinfra-cern-2024 [2] https://indico.cern.ch/event/1378171/ _______________________________________________ Foundation mailing list -- foundation@lists.openinfra.dev To unsubscribe send an email to foundation-leave@lists.openinfra.dev