On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 12:01:29AM -0600, Justin R Findlay wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:55:13PM -0600, Dan Hanks wrote:
Perhaps we in the community just need to organize an
un-conference the day before. Gather together a bunch of geeks
interested in genealogy for a bunch of hours
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Justin R Findlay wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:55:13PM -0600, Dan Hanks wrote:
Perhaps we in the community just need to organize an
un-conference the day before. Gather together a bunch of geeks
interested in genealogy for a bunch of hours with free wireless and see
My take on the wiki and mailing list responses is not that they are
difficult to do, but that many of us would see an
officially-sanctioned sourceforge-like area as a stamp of approval on
what might otherwise be construed as an ark-steadying activity.
Indeed, I know of no other forum than the
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Dallan Quass wrote:
Overall it's a good workshop. A few people come in from out of town, but I
estimate that 80-90% of the attendees this year came from BYU, the Church,
or Ancestry. I think it would be _much_ better if there were an effort
driving people to work together
I agree with Dan. One of the best things that could happen at the Family
History Workshop or a Church-sponsored open-source conference would be to
set time aside for birds-of-a-feather sessions, where people interested in
the same area could get to know each other, share ideas, make plans to work
already doing).
-dallan
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BYU sponsors a Family History Technology Workshop. Does
--- Alan Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have no idea how this will go over, or how it
might be done, or even
if it'll be allowed by the secular conferences, but
why not co-sponsor
existing conferences.
Doesn't Novell host a Linux conference in SLC? I
think Linus showed up there a couple
Pat,
Desiring development conferences should not be a surprise.
In the private sector, that is a major source of revenue to the people
that put them
on and a major social event for those in their respective discipline. I
don't personally
find them all that educational for the money spent, but
I have no idea how this will go over, or how it might be done, or even
if it'll be allowed by the secular conferences, but why not co-sponsor
existing conferences.
How many LDS are going to OSCon? YAPC? ApacheCon? The SAGE stuff?
Rather than try to start up yet another conference, leverage
