MESSAGE
| DATE | 2003-09-30 |
| FROM | Nat Friedman
|
| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] RE: GNOME Conference Plans
|
Guys, I think you might be thinking of this too much as a conference.
It's really just a chance for the GNOME developers to be in the same
place. If there's more than a few scheduled presentations, that's too
many. The mistake I made in organizing the last summit was having too
much on the schedule. The more unstructured this is, the better.
What's key is to have a number of breakout rooms (3 or 4 maybe) and to
have a larger hacking room with net access in all of them.
I would have someone introduce the event for 30 minutes (I did this at
the last event) and then have someone close it. And then you MIGHT have
one more talk.
Richard is fantastic, but having him speak to 200 people who are already
active free software contributors about things they probably already
understand might not be the best use of the time. Richard has spoken at
GUADECs in the past. At the last summit, we tried to bring in an
"outsider" -- Rob Pike -- who gave an interesting talk about an
itneresting technology. If we're going to have a keynote at all, I
would much prefer it to be an outsider along these lines. Someone we
can learn from because they are different from us.
The summit is typically focused heavily on technical issues and the
GNOME project's organization issues at a given point.
Best,
Nat
____________________________
NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc
|
|
