Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-conference (99 mails)

[Bryen M Yunashko <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx>]

I wasn't sure if I wanted to make the trip to oSC this year, but now I'm
convinced I have to go!  :-)

This is an excellent proposal and we should definitely go forth with it.
It speaks volumes to our tradition of working with others together.  And
it is similar in concept to what some of us have been pushing for with
openSUSE Summit to be a more broad-appeal event that attracts people
from outside our immediate community.

"I'm going to go to $FOSS event.  Oh, it's co-located with openSUSE.
Hmm, let's hear what they have to say, since I've never paid much
attention to that group.  Oh!  Wow! I didn't know openSUSE does all this
cool stuff, I'm down with it!"

That's the reaction I'm going to bet you will happen for many people who
attend oSC this year now that it will probably be co-located.

The sweeter thing here is that not only will we all be together at this
event, but since this is a joint effort, this means we'll be working
collaboratively together prior to the conference.  An excellent
opportunity to build relationships "Across Borders" in the coming
months.

As you can see, I'm hard pressed to find anything wrong with this
proposal.  :-)

Bryen M Yunashko
openSUSE Project


On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 23:57 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> So here's a pleasant surprise.
>
> Michal and Theo are involved in the just-starting organization of a 'reboot' 
> of a well known local event (12 years of history): LinuxExpo. This used to be 
> organized by a conference-company but they've announced not to do that this 
> year.
>
> A local team has decided to do it instead, working with the Technical 
> University of Praha (biggest technical university in the country, I'm told). 
> The team consists of openSUSE, Ubuntu, Gentoo people as well as chief editors 
> of the 3 major Linux magazine and university people. Michal and Theo had an 
> appointment to discuss the conference and I tagged along. The team was unsure 
> about their scope: go international or not? Theo suggested to have a Gentoo 
> side-event with about 50-70 people. We then suggested to co-locate with 
> openSUSE Conf!
>
> The team liked the idea and we went over the basics:
> - Location? 3 metro stops from the city center, 2 stops from the old city
> - Rooms: all we want. 300 + 180 + 180 large rooms, plenty of small rooms.
> - Catering: there is university catering but we can do what we want.
> - Branding: go nuts.
> - Date: please one week earlier than we wanted to do at KC.
> - How many days: they wanted 2 days (sat & sun) but we can have Thur and Fri 
> if we pay a bit.
> - What do they think: The team loves it. They get international exposure 'for 
> free'. The university was so excited they promised to move whatever is needed 
> in their schedule to give us space on Thur and Fri...
> - openSUSE 'identity': We start on Thur, Sat we open up. Enough time to just 
> hang with geeko's.
> - CfP: We should collaborate with our CfP - there is plenty of overlap 
> between 
> the local and global teams (gentoo, openSUSE & LinuxExpo). Just think of a 
> keynote by Greg KH :D
> - Team: we work with the university and other people so it'll save us all 
> work.
> - Costs: It looks like we can afford it, it is in the same price range as KC. 
> We have a final cost picture tomorrow, Monday latest.
> - Costs2: We and the Gentoo people need travel support - but the LinuxExpo 
> has 
> an estimated total costs of about 1500 euro as they don't do that, have a 
> free 
> location (university) and free marketing (the magazine people!).
> - Sponsoring: we need to figure out the exact details but nobody is trying to 
> get rich of this so it should work out fine.
> - Timeframe: we can probably have it all fixed by end of next week!
> - Marketing: Awesomeness of course. With the main local magazines part of the 
> organization, we'll have all the local attention we want. internationally, 
> this looks really good too. We want to collaborate, this is our chance!
> - University: all big geeks. They run Gentoo with KDE desktops on their 
> computers in the work rooms :D
> - Language: We will have both Czech and English tracks. Bit of shuffling 
> should make sure there's always plenty going on for both language groups.
> - Feeling: less cozy, more 'university'. Big building, not particularly 
> pretty 
> or sweet. We need to bring some of that good old huggyness there. Couches 
> etc., not sure if there's a good spot for that but I think we can find 
> something.
> - But but but didn't we sign something with KC already: no, Alan asked 
> Michael 
> to hold off until we can decide on this new opportunity.
>
> In short.
>
> Crazy surprise, but everyone seems to love the idea and we can do it. It fits 
> our requirements and has many benefits.
>
> I made a quick impression - it's much shorter as it was less prepared than 
> the 
> KC one, but here you go: http://youtu.be/EFd4pXcBeDQ
>
> Tomorrow around 15:00 EU time we have a meeting to discuss this, feedback 
> please asap so we can bring that to the table. We have to decide quickly.
>
> /Jos


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