[LGM] LGM in 2020 and 2019 (for that matter)

[Frank Trampe]

As somebody who crossed the ocean for this year's event, I can say that it
was completely worth the trip. Without much help, the local team put
together a great combination of physical spaces (some practical, others
dripping with character), technical support, and hospitality.

As long as we have a venue and a few month's notice, our core constituency
show up, and we get great talks and demonstrations. Money and excess
preparation just make it more fun and help better to engage beyond the core.

There are indeed some things that we can do better, as you mention. We have
a lot of good ideas (some agreed every year and never implemented), but
putting them into practice without a central, full-time manager probably
requires some nudging by the community throughout the process. I plan to be
part of that, and I hope that you will be a part of it as well.


On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
wrote:

> It's encouraging to have such interest in those submitting proposals for
> 2020.
> I had originally planned to attend LGM 2018, but became increasingly
> discouraged at the slow planning, its shallowness, and the apparent lack
> of experience and depth of the planners. Ultimately, I didn't want to go
> to the expense to set up a trip to attend something that might have
> ended up being more like a local computer users' meeting.
>
> The hardest thing to get from proposals is whether the planner(s) have
> any sense of what it takes to satisfy the needs of LGM, in terms of
> having enough spaces available for all the aspects of the meeting, the
> internet access, and reasonable physical access from wherever housing
> might be found by those attending. It's nice to stimulate local interest
> in Libre Graphics software, but we know that aspect is bound to be
> limited and is not really the point of LGM anyway. There is also some
> assurance to have a connection with some local college or school, but
> there isn't anything automatic about what that support consists of.
>
> One important way to help allay worries is having a robust and actively
> updated website very early in the process which can demonstrate the
> breadth and depth of the planning. The website for 2018 was quite
> shallow, even at the very end. Perhaps there ought to be some kind of
> guidebook that could be put together by those who have run successful
> and well-attended meetings in the past.
>
> Greg
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