Since my first OpenStack Summit back in San Diego in 2012, there has been one unique defining characteristic that made the event different than any other in the technology world – the event was where developers and users all gathered in the same place.
The OpenStack Summit approach included the Design Summit, bringing in the people actually building OpenStack – not just those that sell it. But as it turns out the model wasn’t working for developers (though it worked well for this journalist..), and the upcoming OpenStack Barcelona event will be the last ‘classic’ Summit.