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

[Soenke Zehle]

>requires some nudging

ready to be nudged, but give us another 2 weeks for the first version
of the website

best,

Soenke

2018-06-04 15:03 GMT+02:00 Frank Trampe <frank.trampe at gmail.com>:
> 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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