On May 30, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Marcel Offermans wrote: > On May 30, 2012, at 14:05 , Nick Burch wrote: > >> On the everyone front, we need to decide exactly what kind of conference we >> want to fill this lovely SAP sponsored space with. Do we want big tracks >> (200/300 people), or small ones (5*100), or some days with one setup and >> some days others? What sort of tracks do we want to put on? Do we want to do >> a day or two for certain popular project areas, or do we want to do one >> track for the whole time for a popular area, with smaller ones around it? >> What things (if any) do we want to put on in the evening? What things might >> we want to try in Portland next year, which we should be attempting to >> test/pilot in Europe? > > I am in favor of having more smaller tracks, and I'd like to be as diverse as > we can, instead of just focussing on a few more popular projects and leaving > the rest of them out. Learning about the all the different projects Apache > has to offer to me is one of the primary reasons for going to ApacheCon. Also > because it encourages people involved in those projects to meet, exchange > ideas and work together. The bigger projects have their own, more targeted > conferences anyway, so I would not want to give them preferential treatment > over the any other projects for ApacheCon. > I'd like to see the diversity of the Apache community properly reflected in the Foundation's conferences, so this is good input.
> For the talks, I would even propose to consider doing 30 minute instead of > 50-60 minute talks. If structured well, a 30 minute talk can deliver a lot of > information already. Downside might be that we need more budget this way > (because we end up with more speakers) so that might not be practical!? > This implies that there is a significant cost to adding speakers. I'd be interested to know what you would expect these costs to be ... > Greetings, Marcel > regards Steve -- Steve Holden [email protected], Holden Web, LLC http://holdenweb.com/ Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ Next: Open Django Central Jun 8-9: http://opendjango.com/central/
