At least Declan acknowledged the idea was nuts from the outset. Yes, it's nuts. Until I see a hosting proposal putting one of these ideas forward, well, I was gonna say something snarky about endless discussion but this is kind of a discussion list and I just added to it. :)
Mmmm, this foot tastes delicious. -Mike On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:12, Ross Singer <[email protected]> wrote: > Given the fact that they have to be there twice as long (i.e. twice as > expensive), what would be the incentive to present? > > This, personally, sounds like Presenter Gulag to me. > > -Ross. > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Peter Murray <[email protected]> > wrote: >> That is a crazy idea. I don't know about putting the speakers on the hook >> for two days -- particularly keynote speakers. Still, it would be >> interesting for a site to flesh this out and propose something along these >> lines. >> >> >> Peter >> >> On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Fleming, Declan wrote: >>> Hi - so I know this is nuts. >>> >>> If we start with a couple premises for the code4lib conference: >>> >>> 1. Single thread is crucial. >>> 2. 250 is about the top limit of a single threaded conference. >>> 3. 400+ people want to attend. >>> 4. The conference takes 2.5 days. >>> >>> What if we ran the 2.5 day conference twice in one week? >>> >>> 1. Session 1 runs from Monday until noon on Weds. >>> 2. Session 2 runs from 1p on Weds until the end of Friday. >>> 3. Every one of the 23 accepted talks is given twice, once in each >>> Session, in the same order. >>> 4. Each Session is attended by a different set of attendees. >>> >>> We could serve 500 attendees this way. >>> >>> If everyone came for the week, there could be parallel seminars, hack >>> fests, BootCamps, THATcamps, CURATEcamps, c4lcamps, etc... for the half of >>> the 500 that wasn't in the main conference. People could also just decide >>> to come for the 2.5 day main conference, I guess. >>> >>> I SAID it was crazy. ;) >>> >>> D >> >> >> >> -- >> Peter Murray >> Assistant Director, Technology Services Development >> LYRASIS >> [email protected] >> +1 678-235-2955 >> >> 1438 West Peachtree Street NW >> Suite 200 >> Atlanta, GA 30309 >> Toll Free: 800.999.8558 >> Fax: 404.892.7879 >> www.lyrasis.org >> >> LYRASIS: Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers.
