OpenStack Denver PTG – Sept 2018 – Notetaking

I take notes, especially in big meetings, as a way to keep my attention on the meeting (and avoid falling asleep). Sometimes it comes in handy, as my memory isn’t great anyway. Sometimes the benefit is questionable, as my notes might not make sense to anyone else, especially if they aren’t in an OpenStack session.

I took the majority of the notes for the Monasca sessions at the Denver 2018 OpenStack Program Teams Gathering.  Take a look – https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/monasca-ptg-stein – and I did the same last time around – https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/monasca-ptg-rocky .

As a sample, I also took notes for the parts of the OpenStack-Helm sessions that I was interested in.  I didn’t slap them in to the OS-Helm etherpad as I am just peripherally part of the team and didn’t want to break their flow.  But I’m including them below in raw format just for backup/reference.

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OpEd: OpenStack wishes for Monasca

This is my first attempt at an editorial post for my blog. I usually just sprinkle in my opinion in whatever I’m writing, but you can see on this site I don’t blog much anyway. But this subject was prompted by a conversation in the Monasca IRC meeting this week (http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/monasca/2018/monasca.2018-09-05-15.00.log.html) so I thought I’d take a stab at it.

In some ways, this is my wishlist for Monasca and how I would like to see the project get better.  In some ways, it is a bit of a gripe about Telemetry.

Summary: better advertizing of ‘official’ projects, small but active projects can still be useful, and project consolidation.

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