# Agenda for Ansible Contributor Summit - Durham 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Events\ **Tags:** agenda, contributor-summit, conference, official\ **Created:** [October 11, 2023, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/agenda-for-ansible-contributor-summit-durham-2023/1615 "2023-10-11T00:54:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/leo/32/23_2.png) [@Leo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/agenda-for-ansible-contributor-summit-durham-2023/1615/1 "2023-10-11T00:54:48Z")
# Agenda for Ansible Contributor Summit, Durham 2023 Check the [event details in this topic](http://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-contributor-summit-durham-2023/28) if you want to attend in-person or online. **Time note for online attendees** : The event is in Durham, North Carolina, United States. All times in the agenda are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), if you are connecting remotely, please make sure to convert to your local timezone. EDT is the same as UTC-4. ## Event agenda ### Presentations (9 AM to 3 PM) | Time | Topic | Speakers | | --- | --- | --- | | **08:30** - 09:00 | _ **Breakfast** _ | | | **09:00** - 09:10 | Welcome to Ansible Contributor Summit | @wbentley15 | | **09:10** - 09:45 | Ansible Community: Update and what’s next? | @wbentley15 & @Leo | | **09:45** - 10:15 | The Ansible Community Forum as a contributor space | @Leo | | **10:15** - 11:00 | What’s new and ahead with Ansible Development Tools | @tima | | **11:00** - 11:15 | _ **Coffee break** _ | | | **11:15** - 11:45 | Inbound hop nodes in AWX | @fosterseth | | **11:45** - 12:15 PM | QE efforts on the Mesh Scaling feature in AWX | @CFSNM | | **12:15** - 12:45 PM | AWX Operator Documentation, What’s New? | [Virtual] @DesmondSanctity | | **12:45** - 1:45 PM | _ **Lunch** _ | | | **1:45** - 2:15 PM | Ansible Core/Builder/Runner updates and roadmap | [Virtual] @nitzmahone | | **2:15** - 2:45 PM | What’s changed with the new [http://galaxy.ansible.com](http://galaxy.ansible.com/) | [Virtual] @jlmitch5 | ### Sprints (afternoon at Caktus Group) | Time | Topic | Speakers | | --- | --- | --- | | **15:00** - 17:00 | SPRINTS TO BE DEFINED | | ## Presentations ### Ansible Community: Update and what’s next? > **Elevator Pitch** > > In February, at ConfigManagementCamp, we laid out our vision for the things we need to improve on in the Ansible community. Let’s discuss how that’s going! > **Description** > > At [CfgMgmtCamp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezaX-cHlN-g) we laid out the data & reasoning for how we see the state of the community. That was then written up as a set of [blog](https://ansible.github.io/community/posts/state_of_the_community_2023.html) [posts](https://ansible.github.io/community/posts/ansible_community_strategy_2023.html) around the community strategy, taking in fragmentation, voice, mission, and more. > > That lead to a pair of discussions and votes within the community, on the need for a [community website](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/201) and a [community forum](https://github.com/ansible-community/community-topics/issues/202), both of which were voted for. So let’s take stock of where we’re at today and start discussing where we want to go next. > > This talk is aimed at **everyone** in the Ansible community, from the newest user to the most veteran of contributors. If you have an interest in where the community goes next, we want to hear about your thoughts, and this talk with give you the baseline of how we see things in the Community Team. > **About the speaker(s)** > > - @wbentley15 > - @Leo ### The Ansible Community Forum as a contributor space > **Elevator Pitch** > > - The Forum is live! This new space for community engagement and discussion is available to all Ansible projects and contributors. Join us for a discussion on how to onboard an Ansible project if you are an Ansible developer or how to bring a topic into light if you are a contributor > **Description** > > The Ansible ecosystem is getting bigger and more complex, browsing 20+ GitHub repositories to try and find where we have to submit our bug or RFE is becaming harder, this also affects the Ansible projects that want to communicate upcoming changes, releases or discuss future decisions. > **About the speaker(s)** > > @Leo ### What’s new and ahead with Ansible Automation Development Tools > **Elevator Pitch** > > This talk will go over the Ansible automation developer tools for the community, what is the roadmap and work underway. To begin I’ll briefly cover what it means to be an Ansible automation developer and the existing tools available to the community for creating content. The talk will continue with an updated look at new releases such as Molecule 6 and what lies ahead for the Ansible automation developer experience in the coming months and years. > **Description** > > … > **About the speaker(s)** > > @tima ### What’s changed with the new [http://galaxy.ansible.com](http://galaxy.ansible.com) > **Elevator Pitch** > > Abstract: We will go over the changes to the new [http://galaxy.ansible.com](http://galaxy.ansible.com). We will talk about the switchover to the galaxy-ng codebase as well as a roadmap of what to expect in the coming weeks. Finally, we’ll discuss how you can keep up to date with the project and how to get involved as a contributor. > **Description** > > … > **About the speaker(s)** > > @jlmitch5 ### AWX Operator Documentation, What’s new? > **Elevator Pitch** > > The new AWX Operator Docs is live. Join us in discussing how we used the Community Writers’ effort to make this a success—the process, contributions, and how everything summed up to the new documentation. > **Description** > > … > **About the speaker(s)** > > @DesmondSanctity ### Ansible Core/Builder/Runner updates and roadmap > **Elevator Pitch** > > Ansible Core/Builder/Runner updates and roadmap > **Description** > > … > **About the speaker(s)** > > @nitzmahone ### Inbound hop nodes in AWX > **Elevator Pitch** > > Talk about recent improvements for remote execution including hop nodes and ingress hop nodes > **Description** > > … > **About the speaker(s)** > > @fosterseth ### QE efforts on the Mesh Scaling feature in AWX > **Elevator Pitch** > > Following up Seth’s talk about hop nodes and inbound connections, will talk about how QE has been testing the Mesh Scaling feature, presenting some scenarios and corner cases > **Description** > > … > **About the speaker(s)** > > @CFSNM ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/leo/32/23_2.png) [@Leo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/agenda-for-ansible-contributor-summit-durham-2023/1615/2 "2023-10-13T18:44:18Z")