Hi,
The program committee for the openSUSE Conference 2011 held its first meeting today, on #opensuse-project.
The team consists of the following: * Vincent Untz * Bryen Yunashko * Alan Clark * Jos Poortvliet * Will Stephenson * Pascal Bleser I added myself to the list on the wiki, hoping I may still be accepted. Sorry, I know I am late,
Everyone was present, except Will who couldn't attend at that time of day. and again sorry for not attending this time.
Theme ~~~~~ The discussion around the theme of the conference revolved around two aspects: * the motto (or tag line) of the conference, with two proposals currently floating around: * "Collaboration across borders" (same as 2010) * "rwxrwxrwx" (openSUSE: read, write, execute, for you, the project, and the world)
Nevertheless, the openSUSE Conference in 2010 was felt as not making up enough time for topics that are specific to our project. As such, we agree that the focus needs to be shifted a bit more towards openSUSE itself.
The team agreed on the following: * the motto is not critical right now, and may still be decided upon later,
* for sessions on collaboration, we will reach out to projects and people who work on things that have a direct connection with what we do hmm, not sure if I understand this correctly. I thought it would be great to collaborate also with completely different stuff than ours if it makes sense, think "openSUSE - more than a product". This sounds
hmm, I would have objected to this in the meeting. The child needs a name, so please we shouldn't hesitate too long. limiting, but I believe its not really meant that way. I read it "focus", ok?
Andreas Jaeger is currently actively seeking options in the area of Nürnberg in Germany, and we hope to have a solution very soon.
I guess more people than Andreas are involved already.
The venue will have to have at least 5 distinct rooms (of which one will be used by the SUSE Labs conference) to provide sufficient capacity for the attendees, as well as enough flexibility to organize the schedule. Its not that easy, so it might be that we also have to be flexible somehow with our ideas.
Infrastructure ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The cfp@opensuse.org mailing-list will be used again to contact the program committee as well as to submit proposals after the publication of the CfP (unless we come up with a better solution in the mean time.) Bryen will contact Henne (our mailing-list admin) to configure the mailing-list for the program committee for 2011.
We also agreed on using Indico [1] again, mostly because it is already in place.
[1] http://cdsware.cern.ch/indico/ I volunteer to update and refresh it.
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