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Good day Frans & folks.

:)

Great seeing helpful collaboration here.

Agree with items below, regarding starting out small for first event,
establishing multi-sector channels, having focused agendas for it, and
joining up with other places.

Although, admittedly, it might be difficult to have a pick on the focus
areas to promote to get our conference going and to establish channels is
not cheap.

Thinking about it, you did mention you are aware of what HP, Canonical,
RedHat, and etc are doing, especially with your fears that OSUGs are either
friend or foe to these organisations and its efforts.

Really hope you find ways to *itemise on your OSUG objectives and
prioritise*: is it to promote OpenStack in general? To build awareness of
OSUG itself? To build competencies? To find talent and contributors in the
community who can help write code for OpenStack? To generate clarity around
OpenStack in relation to OpenStack-powered solutions from vendors and from
public cloud offerings? Generate leads for some of your sponsors?

If your goals line up with the known objectives of vendors doing their own
events, great! You have common ground. Otherwise, do continue with finding
gaps in the event lineup of said companies. *I am sure you will find ways
to bring practical knowledge to your community (big or small)*. Installing
and configuring and configuration/version management alone of various
moving projects in the OpenStack line alone is still a big headache
especially pre-Grizzly. Add in some business perspectives in the
discussions since this is a critical component in any technical discussion,
as much as we may want to separate them..

I am guilty of this in the past (well, until now once in a while :P) of *user
group envy* or *other companies' event reception envy* *elsewhere* (*Our
team hails from Philippines who have started migrating some operations and
presence in Hong Kong and Singapore*). I used to get distracted when
bigger, nicer, better resourced, and more mature markets and geographies
gain such better traction in such initiatives. I realise companies also
target markets appropriately, which in turn provide more trickles in
sponsorship and marketing funds. Talent ecosystem (not just one or two or
three people or companies and groups) is critical to these companies also.

But at the end of the day, if you objectives and set expectations
reasonably, whether 5 people come or 100 come, it is ok. You can't please
everyone. I personally prefer to find a few good chats here and there than
a whole lot of people just complaining about the food you serve. :D

*Admire what you are doing. Carry on. Efforts like yours that simply tries
--- fail or succeed and amateurish or otherwise --- is exactly what keeps
the community vibrant, for better or worse.*



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On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Marton Kiss <marton.kiss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Frans, what you think about focusing regional, Vietnam, Singapore is not
> so far away? Join your forces and try to target them also. Let's try to
> raise the number of reachable visitors, as Japan did a one-day event with
> 1100 attendees, I guess 3-400 is a nice number for first time. You need to
> make channels to startups / government / enterprise / universities. And I
> suggest to start cross-promote the user group for example, in python, php,
> other cloud areas.
>
> Regarding the format, first time we did a single main track for the first
> part of the event, and separated that into two parallel afternoon tracks.
> For the second one we added a so called "workshop" room as an experiment,
> and asked people to feel free to bring their notebooks, and join into
> practical sessions. It is very important to bring in interesting topics and
> key speakers, well-known in ecosystem.
>
> You can find of picture galleries of our events here:
>
> OpenStack CEE Day 2014
>
> https://plus.google.com/photos/+KalmanSzabo/albums/6020732736561543537?authkey=CL2dlfPdy_PunwE
>
> OpenStack CEE Day 2013
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/openstackhungary/sets/72157634182143722/
>
> Brgds,
>   Marton
>
> 2014-10-03 2:22 GMT+02:00 Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org>:
>
>> right now we have several "assigned" voluteers from companies that
>> related and interest with Openstack
>>
>> which need to grow their brand..
>>
>> and this 2 months, they was and will launch their product, slow here,
>> that why, next year is good year to start
>>
>>
>> we have meet up with full 80 participants and last month 2 participants ;(
>>
>> F
>> --
>> Frans Thamura (曽志胜)
>> Shadow Master and Lead Investor
>> Meruvian.
>> Integrated Hypermedia Java Solution Provider.
>>
>> Mobile: +628557888699
>> Blog: http://blogs.mervpolis.com/roller/flatburger (id)
>>
>> FB: http://www.facebook.com/meruvian
>> TW: http://www.twitter.com/meruvian / @meruvian
>> Website: http://www.meruvian.org
>>
>> "We grow because we share the same belief."
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 7:19 AM, jgotangco at gmail.com <jgotangco at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I think key to your query is the number of people helping in the
>> > organization of the event. Without volunteers and peers, it would be
>> > difficult to pull off multi-organ events. If it's the first event, I
>> would
>> > suggest making it simple but with a focused agenda and highly targeted
>> > audience. That I believe is key on building the community.
>> >
>> > My 2 cents :-)
>> >
>> > Jerome G.
>> >
>> > On Oct 3, 2014 8:12 AM, "Frans Thamura" <frans at meruvian.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> how many rooms are best for OpenStack Day?
>> >>
>> >> because OpenStack Meet Up only 1 room with 2-3 hours with 2 topics
>> >>
>> >> I think a conference like, with 1 keynotes, 5 session paralel
>> >>
>> >> F
>> >> --
>> >> Frans Thamura (曽志胜)
>> >> Shadow Master and Lead Investor
>> >> Meruvian.
>> >> Integrated Hypermedia Java Solution Provider.
>> >>
>> >> Mobile: +628557888699
>> >> Blog: http://blogs.mervpolis.com/roller/flatburger (id)
>> >>
>> >> FB: http://www.facebook.com/meruvian
>> >> TW: http://www.twitter.com/meruvian / @meruvian
>> >> Website: http://www.meruvian.org
>> >>
>> >> "We grow because we share the same belief."
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Marton Kiss <marton.kiss at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> > Hi Frans,
>> >> >
>> >> > We used to organise a yearly one-day event, called OpenStack CEE Day
>> in
>> >> > Central Europe. The budget calculation really depends on you. If you
>> >> > know
>> >> > that visitors can afford a ticket, and you don't want to create a
>> free
>> >> > event, you can share the costs between sponsors and attendees. So as
>> I
>> >> > remember we had the following spendings for the event:
>> >> > - venue rental
>> >> > - wifi access
>> >> > - food / cafe
>> >> > - utilities: laptops / desks / projectors
>> >> > - badges
>> >> > - optionally vip room for speakers or a press room with drinks and
>> >> > snacks
>> >> > - promotion / marketing
>> >> > - rollup banners, etc.
>> >> >
>> >> > The hardest thing is to estimate how much people can attend the
>> event,
>> >> > and
>> >> > how much ticket you can give away (or sell). We applied a minimal fee
>> >> > for
>> >> > the tickets, because it is a Central European cultural behaviour if
>> you
>> >> > pay
>> >> > for something, it have a higher chance to visit the event.
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers,
>> >> >   Marton
>> >> >
>> >> > 2014-10-02 16:15 GMT+02:00 Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org>:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> hi all
>> >> >>
>> >> >> wanna raise up this question
>> >> >>
>> >> >> i need to secure budget esp for next year, to several vendor, esp HP
>> >> >>
>> >> >> any idea for the budget calculation?
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> Frans Thamura (曽志胜)
>> >> >> Shadow Master and Lead Investor
>> >> >> Meruvian.
>> >> >> Integrated Hypermedia Java Solution Provider.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Mobile: +628557888699
>> >> >> Blog: http://blogs.mervpolis.com/roller/flatburger (id)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> FB: http://www.facebook.com/meruvian
>> >> >> TW: http://www.twitter.com/meruvian / @meruvian
>> >> >> Website: http://www.meruvian.org
>> >> >>
>> >> >> "We grow because we share the same belief."
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Akihiro Hasegawa
>> >> >> <hasegawa at bit-isle.co.jp> wrote:
>> >> >> > Hi Frans,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > In Japan , we have an annual OpenStack local event , names
>> OpenStack
>> >> >> > Days Tokyo.
>> >> >> > This year we got "30" sponsors and "1100+" attendees.
>> >> >> > You can see the detail of this event on this page.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > =Web page=
>> >> >> > http://www.openstackdays.com/en/
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > =Event report =
>> >> >> > http://www.openstackdays.com/files/OSDT2014report_en.pdf
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Regards,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Akihiro
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > On 2014/09/17, at 5:59, Frans Thamura wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> Hi all
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> the ecosystem here in Indonesia, just starting hot with OpenStack
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> but as usually user group will become threat as enemy or friend.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> next week first openstack event by RedHat,
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> next october will be Quanta with Canonical ( I am part of, so
>> OSUG
>> >> >> >> Indonesia part of them also)
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> and soon Helion from HP.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> sadly PowerVM (Openstack kernel on Power processor in iSeries),
>> >> >> >> still
>> >> >> >> dont want to call it openstack :)
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> there are new bundle event from Intel with Redhat regarding Swift
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> and an offer from ceph to bundle also. still in progress
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> right now, i am bring them to the OpenStack Day, because I want
>> to
>> >> >> >> make them as speaker, sponsor.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> but several love to have their own event, rather collaborate with
>> >> >> >> OpenStack User Group
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> right now we are discussion content with Quanta, Inspur,
>> Canonical,
>> >> >> >> HP
>> >> >> >> regrading topic, but I think only Quanta, inspur, canonical ..
>> HP ,
>> >> >> >> Dell still dont know, how to step in this cloud movement .
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> any tips all?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> can I have all you OpenStack Day activities this year, from every
>> >> >> >> country, plz give me your URL, proposal or pic gallery
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> thx
>> >> >> >>
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