Debian Cloud Sprint 2017

Location, Date

• When: October 16 - 18, 2017
• Where: Microsoft, Bellevue, WA USA

We have currently reserved some meeting space located on the 15th floor of the "Lincoln Square" building in Bellevue, Washington. The Microsoft receptionist is also on the 15th floor. The room ID/number is "LS/15100-Meydenbauer".

Address: 700 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
https://binged.it/2w98mh6

We will have coffee/tea/water, breakfast and lunch will be on site provided by Microsoft. Please email stephen.zarkos@microsoft.com for any dietary requirements (as soon as possible please).

Suggested hotels

Bellevue:

• La Residence Suite Hotel - 475 100th Ave NE

  • LucaFilipozzi and JimmyKaplowitz are staying here

• Red Lion Hotel Bellevue -11211 Main St

  • SteveMcIntyre, ?ThomasLange, ?MarcinKulisz, MartinZobelHelas and Tomasz Rybak are staying here

• Silver Cloud Inn Bellevue - 10621 Northeast 12th St

• Courtyard Seattle Bellevue/Redmond - 14615 NE 29th Pl

• Residence Inn Downtown Bellevue - 605 114th Ave SE

• Embassy Suites Bellevue - 3225 158th Ave SE

• Sheraton Bellevue Hotel - 100 - 112th Ave NE

• Courtyard Downtown Bellevue - 11010 NE 8th St

Hotels closer to Redmond:

• Residence Inn Redmond - 7575 164th Ave NE

• Redmond Inn - 17601 Redmond Way

• Silver Cloud Inn - 2122 152nd Avenue NE

• Seattle Marriott Redmond - 7401 164th Ave NE

SteveMcIntyre suggests that it might be a good plan to pick the same hotel. He's also co-ordinating Debian sponorship for travel and accommodation for the sprint.

LucaFilipozzi indicates that AirBnB is not particularly cheaper, on a per-person basis assuming doubling up at a hotel, than the least expensive hotels such as La Residence Suite Hotel.

Participants

Please add your name below and indicate if you will be attending in person:

• StephenZarkos

• Daniel Sol

• MartinZobelHelas

• NoahMeyerhans

• Zach Marano (Google)
• Max Illfelder (Google)
• Sherry Li (Google)
• Tomasz Rybak
• Marcin Kulisz
• Thomas Lange
• Lucas Nussbaum (maybe)
• David Duncan

• Ben Howard (?DigitalOcean)

• Elcaset (maybe)

• SteveMcIntyre

• JimmyKaplowitz

• LucaFilipozzi

• ?RossVandegrift

Agenda

Full agenda TBD. The goal of this event will be to resolve some of the open issues that were discussed at our cloud sprint last year and the Cloud BoF at Debconf17 - Video.

For reference, please take a look at SteveMcIntyre's excellent sprint report from last year: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2016/11/msg00100.html

Skype or Google Hangout

Might Signal Private Messenger be a better alternative to Skype or Google Hangout?

TBD

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