On 21 October 2017 at 01:50, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: > Hola Tobi! > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 2:54 AM Tobias Mueller <mue...@cryptobitch.de> > wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 01:26 +0000, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> > LAS is looking to move to a new conference software. We would like to >> > move to OSEM (http://osem.io/). I realize there was some talk about >> > using whatever FOSDEM is using, but honestly that software is 8 years >> > old and nobody supports it. >> What software are you talking about? > > > I believe it was called pentabarf. Github says it hasn't been touched in a > long awhile. > >> Frab? I don't have the impression that it's neither unmaintained nor not >> supported. In fact, it sets standards when it comes to an open format >> for the conference's schedules. >> https://github.com/frab/frab > > > Nope, is that what fosdem is using? > >> >> >> From what I can see, it's used very extensively by important European >> conferences (FOSDEM, FrOSCon, CCCongress, PrivacyWeek, ...). >> >> > There is 5-6 dedicated people for OSEM. >> But is anybody actually using it? Besides the people themselves for >> openSuSE Conference. > > > I believe small conferences like SeaGL is using it, and large conferences > like AllThingsOpen is using it. There are probably some other ones. > >> >> > So, I'm hoping to make an executive decision and move to OSEM. >> What's your reasoning so far? >> > > Mostly because I have to spin up a website for LAS very quickly and start > working on call for papers and a number of other things. I have a short > deadlines since I am driving fundraising for htis conference. If we are > going to make fundraising goal for a spring conference (eg May) I don't have > a lot of time. The website is the current focal point. > > That said, I don't want to use something and then have GUADEC something > else. It makes no sense to have two conferences using different software so > I want to push to have both GUADEC and LAS/GINA use the same software. The > other issue is that whatever we pick we are our on our own, from what I > understand GNOME sysadmins won't support any other conference software other > than whatever we used this year. I wasn't happy with the experience and I > don't believe it is a scalable process. OSEM is attractive as that I will > have support from a team and considering that we are co-locating two > conferences in the same location there is a slight bit of complexity. If I > have to find hosting outside the GNOME infra, at least let me get it with > someone who is working to help me and is eager to help. But if both > conferences use OSEM then perhaps we can convince sysadmin to host it on our > infra. > > Lastly, we also have this - > https://github.com/openSUSE/travel-support-program, which will probably help > the travel committee when it comes to dealing with travel subsidies. If all > of this comes integrated then we save a lot of time for everyone.
We assessed it some time ago and decided that it didn't work how we needed it to. > In any case, I'm not excited by conference software, I'm interested in the > shortest time to getting something spun up and get things moving and having > the most support. The good thing is that LAS will test any software before > GUADEC and smooth things over for the next team. > >> > Secondly, GNOME.Asia has already used OSEM for the past couple of >> > years. >> wait, what? This is plain wrong. > > > It was true at some point, the OSEM website has GNOME logo as someone using > their software. > > So, can we make a decision? :) > > sri > >> >> Cheers, >> Tobi > > > _______________________________________________ > guadec-list mailing list > guadec-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list > _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
