I am so so very sorry I didn't make it... Jet lag kicked in and it was more powerful than my alarm clock! I apologize for that (and yes, next time feel free to call me). Thank you, only if it's really urgent.
I will happily participate in Program Committee as well as help out with announcement drafting, OSEM, etc. Great news, thank you! :-) Now the only other person we need is a Suse representative for the commitee. Also it could be a good practice to make a call for the things you need, for example call for program committee, call for volunteers, etc... That way, people that couldn't make it to a specific meeting can stil sign up for tasks :) [Let's make sure that such emails go both to project and conference mailing lists] Roger.
Going through the meeting's logs (btw for whomever didn't attend and is anxious to read: http://paste.opensuse.org/94788412) I have made some notes (or rather draft notes that is) which you can find here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n4GHELOKpL3qo1SpzNoUDLY8hd-jh5nGiY_2EJTv...
It's a long text but I think you will find at least some of that information quite useful. Oh boy, this sure is a useful stack of information, thanks! :-)
I have also seen that you are super anxious about the website (I totally get it, I was like that too). Don't be. As soon as we prepare some moto and logo and straighten up a few things, the website might even magically appera one sunny morning :) My point being that we already have the infrastructure set (unlike other conferences) and we can't really have the new looks of our website until we have some actual content to put in it.
Just to make sure we are on the same page... We need to: - start drafting announcements (oSC14 dates, CfP opens...), - find a moto/theme for oSC14 (I would again suggest having a separate email thread for that so that all our community can get involved), - finalize artwork (first of all logo and then some promo material for FOSDEM - poster, cube perhaps...), - have website & OSEM up&running with the above info. Well, maybe not super anxious about the website, but I am anxious to
Hi Stella, provide information on booking flights and accommodation for community members that will go to the conference - but that might be because there are no accommodation deals yet. We'll know more after Tuesday - when Tomo finishes first negotiations with the City of Dubrovnik about sponsorships and the city's help with tourist agencies.
Regarding sponsorships that were also discussed, I am happy to help out on that as well. I do have some experience with sponsors in general. Let's discuss more about it at some other point and get started. In my opinion, there should definitely be a local person keeping track of things (probably the same person approaching local sponsors) and we can together set sponsorship levels and what we can offer to our sponsors.
Speaking of which, I am all for having a business track, keeping in mind that this is an openSUSE Community conference and as such the talks must somehow relate to the opensuse and its community. We don't even have to name it as a business track if it makes people uncomfortable. But our sponsors could in fact have something interesting to present to openSUSE community. I think we should clearly communicate 2 things to sponsors: - that their sponsorship does not guarantee them a presentation/workshop slot and that they should apply for it like everybody else (through osem) and have the program committee (which is independent from the sponsors committee) decide. - and that their talk/workshop should definitely have to do with open source and relate to openSUSE.
Yes, and we should define what are the conditions for them to get a booth at the conference. We should definitely write a more detailed guidelines to send out to potential sponsors. I'll add a few of these things to Trello. Svebor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org