March 2012 - openSUSE Conference - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-conference] Fwd: osc12 venue bids
by Alan Clark 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

We received an updated bid from Movenpick. They did improve their pricing. To much detail to post here, but here's an approximate comparison on 2 points: Prices including VAT Movenpick Zahrada Sleeping Room 87/day area hotels - We will have to work with them separately Conference Rooms (Keynote, 3 sessions, 2 Breakouts) 3206/day 2260/day Lunch, Dinner,Two Breaks 63/person/day area caterers - We will have to find and contract with them separately Pavol and Michal, insight from your site visits will be key to finalizing the venue. AlanClark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-conference] mailing lists for conf visitors
by Jos Poortvliet 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

I know we don't want more lists. Yet here I am, asking for a total of 4 more lists. Serious. First of all, the summit and the conference need an announcement mailing list. That's basically an official SPAM list where you put people on who are interested (just a box on the website where they enter their mail address, no actual registration in indico needed) and who are registered. Why? - those who are interested but not sure yet need not register - you can easily ping them next year: new conference coming! If you think it doesn't work, maybe not for you. But it does work for quite a number of people. Me, for example. No, indico registration is no substitute. I know we can extract mail addresses from it but it's far les convenient, error-prone and doesn't work for those who just want to stay updated. And I want people to be able to (un) subscribe more easily. Yes, it's a very low-trafic list, 10-15 mails a year or so. But it IS important. We COULD have one list for both conferences, but I prefer separate to not spam people with info from both. It should be moderated of course. Then, both conferences should idealy have a opensuse-X-participant list. I've seen this at other confs and it is a great way to let the participants talk to each other to arrange eg travel or hotel together. No, the other openSUSE lists are no substitute - not all the visitors to our conference are on -project or even CARE to be on it. Anyone who subscribes in indico should be subscribed to this list. We mass-unsubscribe people a month after the end of the conference/summit to not bother those who won't participate next year. So I'd like to ask for the creation of: opensuse-conference-announce(a)opensuse.org opensuse-summit-announce(a)opensuse.org opensuse-conference-participant(a)opensuse.org opensuse-summit-participant(a)opensuse.org (maybe without the opensuse- part) It'd be nice if we could have this quickly, esp the summit-announce, so we can get people to give their mail address for that on the summit.opensuse.org website when we announce on Thursday. But I'm sure we can temporarily collect addresses if we don't manage that?? Thoughts? Jos

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[opensuse-conference] video taping
by jdd 25 Mar '12

25 Mar '12

Hello, I hope to be able to attend and volunteer to make video news reports, that is what a TV journalist do. Eventually do a dayly report if editing hardware available (can't do this on my netbook) I have the video hardware I noted on the wiki on artwork page, but don't know if it's the good place. feel free to move it jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-conference] Next step for program committee
by Alan Clark 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Pavol and Michal, What's up next for the program committee? How can we help? Thanks, AlanClark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-conference] conference venue
by Alan Clark 14 Mar '12

14 Mar '12

Efforts continue in determining the venue for osc12. We have received 3 responses of availability to the RFP. Unfortunately there is no perfect answer to our request. Concerns range from cost to size. The venues are the: - KC Zahrada http://www.kczahrada.cz/page/pronajmy - Mövenpick http://www.moevenpick-hotels.com/en/pub/hotels_resorts/worldmap/prague/welc… - Clarion Congress http://www.cchp.cz/en/conference/ The KC Zahrada appears to best fit our style for a conference, but we are concerned that the venue will not be large enough to accommodate our needs. Pavol and Michal will do a site visit this week to see if we can make this location work. The Mövenpick has the right amount of conference space but the price is high. Michael will be negotiating with them to see if we can get the price to an acceptable level. With the results of these two efforts we will hopefully be able to settle on a venue soon. regards, AlanClark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner(a)opensuse.org

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