Infra Bootcamp 2013

What is it?
The goal is to get new core contributors to the infra team, long term. So it's not a typical sprint where we measure the success in code output -- we might write some code, but that's incidental. This is more of a "boot camp". Real success will be measured by whether, in 6 months, we've managed to grow the team of infrastructure core reviewers.

We're an extremely active project but our ratio of core reviewers to changes is much smaller than other OpenStack projects. Some of the stuff we do is rather complicated, and it's hard for new people to pick it all up, or even know where to start sometimes. So we're going to invest some time in helping people who can commit serious time to the infrastructure team get up to speed so that they can start making significant contributions soon, both as contributors and reviewers, and hopefully become core team members in the future, or at least regular and substantial contributors.

You know we're trying to run the most open project infrastructure we can, and any contribution is always welcome. However, at this particular event, we don't want to focus on enabling casual contributions. We really want people who can at least work half-time on pure upstream OpenStack project needs. That means working on things that affect the whole project, not just an employer's area of interest. People who can help maintain Gerrit, Zuul, Jenkins, Etherpad, IRC bots, Mailman, Logstash, Devstack-gate, etc. I believe that kind of broad focus is needed to become a core member of the infrastructure team.

Signup form is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZV1Ct6GlaTioWajEVoBcahRNBHRDfBRxiLRYgmQj_lg/viewform

When is it?
Thursday June 27 - Friday June 28 2013

Where is It?
On Thursday we will be at 133 Wooster Street, Loft B, NYC 10012

"We are located in the red and green building on the northwest corner of Wooster Street between Prince and Houston Streets. Buzz B and we will come down to get you. All guests must be escorted by SoHoSoleil staff."

On Friday we will be at 136 Grand Street, Loft 5WF, NYC 10013

"Be sure you are at the middle door marked 136 (not 138 or 140; the numbers are in the wrong order). Buzz 5WF and we will buzz you into the lobby. Wait in the lobby. We will come down for you with the elevator. The elevator must be operated by SoHoSoleil staff."

I think we're thinking of a 9am start time. We'll have bagels and lox and coffee in the morning both mornings, we'll sort something for lunch, and then I'm going to arrange a dinner for us Thursday night.

If you don't want to do dinner or are going to bring a partner or something similar, please let Monty know as soon as you can.

Many people are staying at the Holiday Inn Soho.