[CREATE] Suggested dates for LGM 2009 Montreal

Tue Nov 11 19:09:27 PST 2008

2008/11/11 Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>

> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 16:53 -0500, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> > 2008/11/11 Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
> >         On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 09:21 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> >         > Hi,
> >         >
> >         > Anders Brander wrote:
> >         > > On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 13:18 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> >         > >> I don't think that most people are there for the
> >         presentations, so I
> >         > >> don't think "packing out" the schedule is important. It's
> >         important in
> >         > >> conferences where attendees pay a lot of money to go, and
> >         need to
> >         > >> justify the expense to their bosses by pointing out all
> >         the great
> >         > >> content that's scheduled. We're not in that situation.
> >         > >
> >         > > Well. We shouldn't have lots of presentations, with the
> >         sole purpose of
> >         > > selling the idea to our bosses. But; I don't see why we
> >         should avoid
> >         > > people talking about their small and specialized projects.
> >         Some of the
> >         > > talks I enjoyed most at LGM2008 were some of the very
> >         specialized talks.
> >         >
> >         > Lightning talks! This is exactly the format small
> >         specialised projects
> >         > need - you get 5 minutes (an eternity!) to present what your
> >         project is,
> >         > some of the cool stuff people do with it, and what you're
> >         interested in
> >         > getting at the conference (Users? Hackers? Features?
> >         Feedback?)
> >         >
> >         > The additional advantage of lightning talks is that you can
> >         do say 2
> >         > hours of them, and have 25 presentations, thus keeping lots
> >         of those
> >         > small projects happy. A third advantage: if one comes along
> >         that few
> >         > people are interested in, it's like the commercial break,
> >         they'll stick
> >         > around & watch it anyway, because in 5 minutes there's
> >         another one coming.
> >         >
> >         > Cheers,
> >         > Dave.
> >
> >
> >         Totally.
> >
> >         Louis, at the end of the day, you are organizing this, but in
> >         the end we
> >         have to ask ourselves what we our communities are getting out
> >         of this:
> >
> >         1.) collaboration time specific to our projects
> >         2.) collaboration time between projects
> >         3.) presenting to all about these collaborations
> >         4.) discovering new projects
> >
> >
> >         And, I would rank our conference priorities in that order and
> >         time usage
> >         that way. So, I wonder if we can do that:
> >
> >         day 1: collaborate within our projects
> >         day 2: presentations from major projects, set talks
> >         day 3: more presentations about collaboration, major talks +
> >         lightning
> >         talks
> >         day 4: collaboration unconference day
> >
> >         But, I still really think that day 4 could be integrated into
> >         day 3.
> >
> >         As I said, Louis, you are taking on the big burden, and you
> >         have done
> >         this before so you know what you are doing...just giving my
> >         few
> >         cents/eurocents...
> >
> > Great!
> >
> > I like pretty much the "what we our communities are getting out of
> > this" and the "day 1-2-3-4" breakdown parts! :)
> >
> > Jon! You got it! ;)
> >
> > I suggest we stick with a one-track, 4-day conf/unconf, starting on
> > Wednesday, closing on Saturday. Leaving lots of room for team work and
> > discussions within/among teams. Plus, new projects, fresh ideas! Some
> > small, some larger. And new people too! Man! This will be fun! I think
> > also that the discussion on how we fill the schedule itself can
> > continue with more input as we approach the LGM. Basically, we want
> > things to happen and for this we need flexibility.
> >
> > You are probably right we could tighten this up into 3 days but I
> > think it will be more flexible with 4, so I think I prefer flexibility
> > at this point. Some people leave early in those confs... some arrive
> > late... no problem! We take you as you come! :) One single day at LGM
> > can change someone's life... imagine 4 days!!!
> >
> > My main concern for now is establishing and securing the dates. If we
> > like the 4-day event, I would then propose May 6-7-8-9. I can leave
> > that open until the end of the week and make a final announcement
> > about the dates on Friday. How does that sound?
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Louis
>
> Teams are really quiet right now. How about we give them until week from
> now to lock in those dates? WED NOV 17.

Yep! Let there be a week.

Louis

>
>
> Good!
>
> Jon
>
> >
> >
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> >
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