Hi - yep, you're right about that. D
-----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 7:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] My crazed idea about dealing with registration limitations On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Fleming, Declan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi - my hope is that people would commit to the whole week and use the time > during the Session they are not in to do other interesting things - camps > that could maybe fit in the talks that didn't get voted in, in depth seminars > on stuff, etc. This way everyone is still in town for the social stuff and > everyone gets to see a full program. And to buy me beer. > > I see the single track advantage in that I'm not missing something by > choosing one session over another. I don't really care as much about who is > in the track with me, I guess. Q&A might have a different flavor, but with > the 20 minute time slots, there's hardly time for Q&A anyway. And anything > deep will show up on the channel. But lightning talks and breakouts are going to be completely different. -Ross. > > D > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Jay Luker > Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 7:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] My crazed idea about dealing with registration > limitations > > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[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.
