[ewg] RE: [promoters] OpenFabrics Developer's Summit: feedback requested

[Kanevsky, Arkady]

Just want to raise my voice against parallel sessions.
We had done it a couple of times at Sonoma.
It does not matter how you divide talks between
tracks there is still a huge overlap.

Arkady Kanevsky                       email: arkady at netapp.com
Network Appliance Inc.               phone: 781-768-5395
1601 Trapelo Rd. - Suite 16.        Fax: 781-895-1195
Waltham, MA 02451                   central phone: 781-768-5300
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johann George [mailto:johann.george at qlogic.com] 
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:52 AM
> To: Or Gerlitz
> Cc: promoters at lists.openfabrics.org; 
> ewg at lists.openfabrics.org; general at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: [promoters] OpenFabrics Developer's Summit: feedback 
> requested
> 
> Or and Jeff,
> 
> Thanks again for your input.  I like Or's idea of starting 
> the summit earlier but am concerned as to whether people 
> could attend.  I'm also not sure we could have access to the 
> room earlier although I suspect that will be possible.
> 
> Regarding parallel tracks, we currently do not have another 
> room to handle that.  But we can investigate if this might be 
> possible at reasonable cost.
> 
> I would like to hear from the attendees since this summit is 
> for you.  Perhaps you can vote on the following three 
> questions.  I'll tally the votes that come from registered 
> attendees by the end of the week and act on them as best as I 
> can.  This might be a good time to remind you that if you 
> have not registered, please do so by following this link:
> 
>     http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=143964
> 
> (1) Are you willing and able to attend if we start at
>     11:00am on Thursday rather than at 1:00pm?
> 
> (2) If we are able to, would you prefer to see simultaneous
>     tracks and lengthen some of the sessions.
> 
> (3) Would you like to see additional MPI sessions crammed
>     into the allotted time?
> 
> To avoid polluting all the mailing lists, feel free to reply 
> just to me unless you wish to do otherwise.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Johann
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