I agree with Ed: I like that someone is throwing out crazy ideas. I don't particularly like this crazy idea though.
If you accept that the downside to multiple tracks is fracturing of the audience/community, then I don't see how holding a 2nd clone of the conference on subsequent days gets around that. It might even be worse because in a parallel multi-track setups you would at least have the benefit of bumping into and networking with the entire, larger group in the off-hours. Of course, inherent in this argument is the idea that it's not the actual talks that provide the most value in attending the conference. Also I agree about the "Speaker Gulag" issue. --jay On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Edward M. Corrado <ecorr...@ecorrado.us> wrote: > I agree it is a crazy idea and I'm not sure if it would work, but I > like the out of the box thinking. > > If the site had one big space that could handle 500 people, you could > just have one keynote session that both groups attended., I guess. > That does restricts the options for locations, but not as much as > needing a room for 500 people the whole time. > > Speaker wise, you'd probably only have to be there one extra day. I > guess that might mean, however, that a speaker (w|c)ould participate > in half of conference A and half of conference B if that is how they > approached it. > > Edward > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Peter Murray <peter.mur...@lyrasis.org> > 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 >> peter.mur...@lyrasis.org >> +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.
