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Tentative agenda for the Ansible Contributor Summit
Ansible Contributor Summit takes place on February 4, 2026. We have sessions planned to run in the morning from 09.00 to 13.00, a break for lunch, and then afternoon sessions from 14.00.
Here is the tentative agenda for the day:
09.00 to 09.10 // Introductions and getting to know each other
09.10 to 10.30 // @oranod and @gundalow share updates from the community and partner engineering team at Red Hat and delve into our plans for the year ahead.
10.30 to 11.30 // @felixfontein and @nitzmahone lead an open discussion about the state of things in Ansible and how we can improve.
11.30 to 11.50 // Break
11.50 to 12.50 // @anwesha and @gundalow discuss Bullhorn improvements, release calendar sync, meetup strategy, and other topics related to communication and promotion of the Ansible community.
This is an opportunity for anyone who participates in the Ansible community to raise discussion items, voice concerns, demo a project, share their ideas, and ask questions. If you plan to join us in Ghent, online or in-person, please let us know if you are interested in presenting during the Ansible Contributor Summit. Reply to this post with your topic and let us know if you have a preferred time.
@MalfuncEddie I know the communication has been lacking, than you for holding us accountable.
CFP for CfgMgmtCamp is still open, so I’m not sure exactly who from Red Hat will be attending till talks are decided. Either way, I’ll be sure to cover it in the yearly Ansible - State of the Community talks. Plus we have Wednesday’s Ansible Community Day where the agenda is decided by the Community.
We will start call for topics on Community Day once CFP review is complete, and I’ll update this thread and Bullhorn once that process starts.
First of all, if I come across as aggressive, that’s not my intention and I apologize if it seemed that way. This is an open-source project, and to be fair, the AWX team and Red Hat are under no obligation to provide explanations or answers.
Regarding the Contributor’s Summit, I’m thinking about giving a rant talk about what currently really sucks about how Ansible is going (from my point of view).
Can’t tell if you’re serious or not, but IMO that’s perfectly valid material for a contrib summit, so +1 from me! You’re in a unique position where minor pain for most of us (probably some sourced from yours-truly ) can be extra-concentrated for the things you work on, and you’ve certainly earned the right to vent about it. Ideally there’ll be enough people in real or virtual attendance to have frank discussions about the state of things and (hopefully) come up with constructive improvements.
I wasn’t sure myself when I first thought about it, but then I started compiling a list of points that I could talk about, and quickly had a long enough list that I decided that I really should do this talk. So yep, totally serious now I only wrote down things that I know also others complained about, and I’ll try to have enough improvement suggestions coming with my criticisms - though I guess for many points it’s mainly a question of priorities (and thus resource allocation).
While putting together the agenda for the Contributor Summit, @gundalow and I discussed potential options for the afternoon. In years past folks have been pretty tired after multiple days of action-packed, open-source events. We thought it might be a good idea to gauge interest in doing something different in the afternoon this year.
We’re looking at options for a light social excursion, think a boat tour or walking tour of Ghent, that might be a refreshing alternative and an opportunity for folks to get to know each other better.
Please respond to the poll and let us know if you have any preferences for Wednesday afternoon. (Please also keep in mind that we’re not committing to a social excursion yet, just trying to get a sense of the level of interest.)
I’m not attending the afternoon sessions
I would prefer to join sessions related to the Ansible community
I would like to participate in a hackathon
I would like to give a talk or demo as part of the afternoon sessions
I’m interested in participating in a light social excursion and don’t mind
I can only second @briantist! It would definitely be great to see something of the city before it gets dark, while not having to run off early I walked around a little bit between eventually leaving in the afternoon and before dinner on Wednesday in the last years, but it was always a bit too late, starting to get dark, and without some advance planning also not that much to see. Both boat tour and walking sound great!
Well, a rant talk wouldn’t be wrong IMHO. I think bringing up painful subjects is important. Talking only about things that work fine doesn’t bring any progress.
I’m not sure what exactly you want to talk about, but maybe you could have a look at Etwas was ich schon immer über Ansible wissen wollte, aber nie zu fragen wagte. It’s about whether Ansible is really simple or not. It’s in German, but maybe it gives you some ideas. Sounds like some people think Ansible isn’t simple (enough). Maybe there are reasons for this, but on the other hand they potentially have a point.
Yes, that discussion is also showing some (more; some of them are already covered by my notes ) pain points. (I followed it, but didn’t really commented on it yet since I didn’t had anything to say that wasn’t already said similarly enough by someone else.)
Regarding complexity/“simple enough”: I think it is a misconception that any config management system can make everything simple, especially if it’s a generic system like Ansible that doesn’t have the one preferred workflow that everyone should stick to™. (If you ever worked with a tool that had such a workflow, you likely noticed that this doesn’t help either, as soon as you have a problem that doesn’t perfectly fit this workflow, things get complex / hard again. And life is full of things that don’t fit perfectly )
) can be extra-concentrated for the things you work on, and you’ve certainly earned the right to vent about it. Ideally there’ll be enough people in real or virtual attendance to have frank discussions about the state of things and (hopefully) come up with constructive improvements.
I only wrote down things that I know also others complained about, and I’ll try to have enough improvement suggestions coming with my criticisms - though I guess for many points it’s mainly a question of priorities (and thus resource allocation).