[opensuse-conference] openSUSE Conference Website
Hello, I am currently working on the openSUSE Summit website [1] [2]. And I would love to contribute my two cents towards the openSUSE Conference. That being said, I would like to help with the openSUSE Conference website as well. We can use the same code structure for the openSUSE Conference as we did for the openSUSE Summit. Looking forward to comments and suggestions. /S [1] Website - http://summit.opensuse.org [2] Github - https://github.com/shayonj/openSUSE-summit-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 03 April 2012 16:24:06 Shayon Mukherjee wrote:
Hello,
I am currently working on the openSUSE Summit website [1] [2]. And I would love to contribute my two cents towards the openSUSE Conference. That being said, I would like to help with the openSUSE Conference website as well. We can use the same code structure for the openSUSE Conference as we did for the openSUSE Summit.
Looking forward to comments and suggestions.
Sooo we can basically copy the Summit site to get the oSC one up and running in no time. Adjusting the texts etc won't be hard, I'd be happy to work on that. More important is artwork: without that, it's not ready. I just talked to Andy and he said the thing missing is a feel about the theme - what will oSC 2012 be, what will it be about? We have to agree on a theme, give it to our artists and then they can do something. So, in an attempt to kick that off, let me suggest something: Last year we wanted to bring more interactivity to our conference - RWX. The year before that we focussed on collaboration accross borders. This year, we'll go to our roots: have fun! So we'll ask speakers to make sure their talks are not just technical but also fun. Of course, for us, fun is not just about beer, clowns and little hats - it is about solving interesting problems, meeting cool people, learning surprising new things and doing crazy stuff. Experiments, crazy things, innovation, but also practical implementations you might not have expected like - showing what our ARM port can do with hardware. So the CfP committee would have to ensure we'd have a bit more experimental, weird things at the conf. The organization committee has to make sure the party is real good :D and the artists have to show fun. Like? /Jos
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[1] Website - http://summit.opensuse.org [2] Github - https://github.com/shayonj/openSUSE-summit-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 15:50 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Sooo we can basically copy the Summit site to get the oSC one up and running in no time. Adjusting the texts etc won't be hard, I'd be happy to work on that.
More important is artwork: without that, it's not ready. I just talked to Andy and he said the thing missing is a feel about the theme - what will oSC 2012 be, what will it be about? We have to agree on a theme, give it to our artists and then they can do something.
So, in an attempt to kick that off, let me suggest something: Last year we wanted to bring more interactivity to our conference - RWX. The year before that we focussed on collaboration accross borders. This year, we'll go to our roots: have fun! So we'll ask speakers to make sure their talks are not just technical but also fun. Of course, for us, fun is not just about beer, clowns and little hats - it is about solving interesting problems, meeting cool people, learning surprising new things and doing crazy stuff. Experiments, crazy things, innovation, but also practical implementations you might not have expected like - showing what our ARM port can do with hardware.
So the CfP committee would have to ensure we'd have a bit more experimental, weird things at the conf. The organization committee has to make sure the party is real good :D and the artists have to show fun.
Like?
Alrighty, let me take a first stab at this with some slogan ideas just to give some conceptual feel: -- Shattering Expectations -- Not the Usual Game -- New Location, New Town, Same Awesomeness -- Striving for Greater heights -- Taking care of business -- Getting things done -- Not your average conference Ok none of these slogans are great at all. But might give some ideas for a better one. Having had a conversation with Pascal some time ago, I agree that oSC needs to be *even* more collaborative than it was last year. Last year was a good step forward with RWX and in fact, it was our "return to roots" conference because there were more open discussion formats similar to our first Summit in 2009. The question I think that should be discussed more openly across the Project is what do we want as a result of the Conference? There are those who are certainly looking for expected outcomes and we should try to define more clearly what those outcome goals are. That will have a greater impact on defining what the theme, process and implementation of the conference will be. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org
Le 04/04/2012 15:50, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
we'll go to our roots: have fun!
good idea May be we could launch on opensuse (general) list a thread like "what doeas this moto mean for you? What in openSUSE is fun for you" I can start it if you agree :-)
So the CfP committee would have to ensure we'd have a bit more experimental, weird things at the conf. The organization committee has to make sure the party is real good :D and the artists have to show fun.
Like?
yes jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 04 April 2012 16:39:34 jdd wrote:
Le 04/04/2012 15:50, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
we'll go to our roots: have fun!
good idea
May be we could launch on opensuse (general) list a thread like "what doeas this moto mean for you? What in openSUSE is fun for you"
I can start it if you agree :-)
Problem is that we are pressed for time. Also, WE organize the conference, WE can decide, this doesn't have to go to project and result in an endless discussion :D So I hope others weight in, I'll wait until Sunday evening, then I simply decide based on whatever is on the mailing list at that time. So if you have an opinion on the theme of oSC 2012 (and you should if you're on this list and help organize it, it is YOUR conference) - say something until then!
So the CfP committee would have to ensure we'd have a bit more experimental, weird things at the conf. The organization committee has to make sure the party is real good :D and the artists have to show fun.
Like?
yes
jdd
Le 05/04/2012 16:54, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
Problem is that we are pressed for time.
ok
So if you have an opinion on the theme of oSC 2012 (and you should if you're on this list and help organize it, it is YOUR conference) - say something until then!
I don't know if it's what you wait for :-), but what I can say is the following: I was a gamer. I played with my childs warcraft, starcraft, and so on, including online games. I also played Monkey Island or Day of the tentacle, old timers knows them :-). But since I'm involved in openSUSE (that is nearly from the beginning), I have no more time to play nor desire to do so. I play a real life game. I build packages and a ditribution, then a project. I play with other players that are real people, with real needs. I face real problems and solve them with the other project members help. It's a virtual entreprise that is not virtual. May be. Virtual because my income do not rely on it - I do all this for the fun, not for the money. Hey it even cost me money (but less than the games :-). Real because sales are realworld sales - sales for free, but with real accounts, goals and people if not me that live from them. So, YES, openSUSE is FUN, much FUN! Have fun, boys and girls! jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org
On Thursday 05 April 2012 17:27:34 jdd wrote:
Le 05/04/2012 16:54, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
Problem is that we are pressed for time.
ok
So if you have an opinion on the theme of oSC 2012 (and you should if you're on this list and help organize it, it is YOUR conference) - say something until then!
I don't know if it's what you wait for :-), but what I can say is the following:
I was a gamer. I played with my childs warcraft, starcraft, and so on, including online games. I also played Monkey Island or Day of the tentacle, old timers knows them :-).
But since I'm involved in openSUSE (that is nearly from the beginning), I have no more time to play nor desire to do so. I play a real life game. I build packages and a ditribution, then a project. I play with other players that are real people, with real needs. I face real problems and solve them with the other project members help.
It's a virtual entreprise that is not virtual. May be. Virtual because my income do not rely on it - I do all this for the fun, not for the money. Hey it even cost me money (but less than the games :-). Real because sales are realworld sales - sales for free, but with real accounts, goals and people if not me that live from them.
So, YES, openSUSE is FUN, much FUN!
Have fun, boys and girls!
Ok, so you say for you this theme works... Look, we have to decide what the conference should FEEL like. Last year we wanted lots of BOF's and a DO IT culture, so the artwork and posters said that, the talks were focussed on that etcetera. Now, what theme do we want? Fun is a possibility, that's what I'm saying - but there are other things possible.
jdd
On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 18:00 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Thursday 05 April 2012 17:27:34 jdd wrote:
Le 05/04/2012 16:54, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
Problem is that we are pressed for time.
ok
So if you have an opinion on the theme of oSC 2012 (and you should if you're on this list and help organize it, it is YOUR conference) - say something until then!
I don't know if it's what you wait for :-), but what I can say is the following:
I was a gamer. I played with my childs warcraft, starcraft, and so on, including online games. I also played Monkey Island or Day of the tentacle, old timers knows them :-).
But since I'm involved in openSUSE (that is nearly from the beginning), I have no more time to play nor desire to do so. I play a real life game. I build packages and a ditribution, then a project. I play with other players that are real people, with real needs. I face real problems and solve them with the other project members help.
It's a virtual entreprise that is not virtual. May be. Virtual because my income do not rely on it - I do all this for the fun, not for the money. Hey it even cost me money (but less than the games :-). Real because sales are realworld sales - sales for free, but with real accounts, goals and people if not me that live from them.
So, YES, openSUSE is FUN, much FUN!
Have fun, boys and girls!
Ok, so you say for you this theme works...
Look, we have to decide what the conference should FEEL like. Last year we wanted lots of BOF's and a DO IT culture, so the artwork and posters said that, the talks were focussed on that etcetera. Now, what theme do we want? Fun is a possibility, that's what I'm saying - but there are other things possible.
I like the way JDD phrased that. In fact, I see his words as a perfect script for a video montage promoting the event. So, beyond just "Fun", we do invest in these conferences for a reason. Not just to party, but to have an outcome, hopefully something specific. The first year didn't really have a theme, iirc, but second year we said "Collaboration across borders" and third year, we said "RWX" and Just Do It. So, on a more indepth level, we have to ask who is our target audience and who do we feel will create the $outcome we desire? And what is it we want to "get done" at this conference? I'm almost tempted to come up with the slogan "Getting things done!" and try to blend the past years into a both more collaborative and more discussion type event. Cut down even further on the number of read-ony presentations and give higher priority to longer BoFs. A quick 45-minute BoF doesn't really achieve much in the way of "getting things done" if we're moving on to the next BoF and then the one after that. Making our BoFs more hack-ish would help. I had a hard time recalling all the facts and discussions to sum up after conference was over, and the particular nature of our BoFs really were "talk now, do it after conference" style. So a session, let's say 1 1/2 hours long, where first half is spent on discussing things, and then second half focused on doing it. I guess instead of calling it BoF, we'd call it HoF (Hackers of a Feather). :-) Conclude the conference with a lightning-talk style overview of all the things we HoF'ed, highlighting what we've now completed and collectively discuss what we need to do next Project-wide. And this can still include inviting other projects to join in on collaborative hackings that are mutually beneficial. I think this would also be a community-growth effect because some people attend conferences but are in sort of "lurker-mode." Putting them in a situation where they are more inclined to speak up or participate will encourage them to continue that experience after they've left the conference. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/05/2012 12:33 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 18:00 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Thursday 05 April 2012 17:27:34 jdd wrote:
Le 05/04/2012 16:54, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
Problem is that we are pressed for time.
ok
So if you have an opinion on the theme of oSC 2012 (and you should if you're on this list and help organize it, it is YOUR conference) - say something until then!
I don't know if it's what you wait for :-), but what I can say is the following:
I was a gamer. I played with my childs warcraft, starcraft, and so on, including online games. I also played Monkey Island or Day of the tentacle, old timers knows them :-).
But since I'm involved in openSUSE (that is nearly from the beginning), I have no more time to play nor desire to do so. I play a real life game. I build packages and a ditribution, then a project. I play with other players that are real people, with real needs. I face real problems and solve them with the other project members help.
It's a virtual entreprise that is not virtual. May be. Virtual because my income do not rely on it - I do all this for the fun, not for the money. Hey it even cost me money (but less than the games :-). Real because sales are realworld sales - sales for free, but with real accounts, goals and people if not me that live from them.
So, YES, openSUSE is FUN, much FUN!
Have fun, boys and girls!
Ok, so you say for you this theme works...
So we just buy lots of beer and have a big party? I doubt that'll work for potential sponsors or some other folks.
Look, we have to decide what the conference should FEEL like. Last year we wanted lots of BOF's and a DO IT culture, so the artwork and posters said that, the talks were focussed on that etcetera. Now, what theme do we want? Fun is a possibility, that's what I'm saying - but there are other things possible.
I like the way JDD phrased that. In fact, I see his words as a perfect script for a video montage promoting the event.
So, beyond just "Fun", we do invest in these conferences for a reason. Not just to party, but to have an outcome, hopefully something specific. The first year didn't really have a theme, iirc, but second year we said "Collaboration across borders" and third year, we said "RWX" and Just Do It.
So, on a more indepth level, we have to ask who is our target audience and who do we feel will create the $outcome we desire? And what is it we want to "get done" at this conference?
I'm almost tempted to come up with the slogan "Getting things done!"
I like the "Getting things done!" idea. Then again, Jos has already stated that he will make the decision, thus this might not matter. ;)
and try to blend the past years into a both more collaborative and more discussion type event. Cut down even further on the number of read-ony presentations and give higher priority to longer BoFs.
A quick 45-minute BoF doesn't really achieve much in the way of "getting things done" if we're moving on to the next BoF and then the one after that. Making our BoFs more hack-ish would help. I had a hard time recalling all the facts and discussions to sum up after conference was over, and the particular nature of our BoFs really were "talk now, do it after conference" style.
So a session, let's say 1 1/2 hours long, where first half is spent on discussing things, and then second half focused on doing it.
I would not go with the 1 1/2 hour sessions as a general format for the following reasons: - at first people will be scared off by the length of time, some of those scared off will not take a second look to understand the "true" format, therefore we will loose a certain percentage of speakers - people that get the format of present, discuss ideas, hack will still have an issue with the length of time. It is difficult to find a topic to keep going for 90 minutes and we would risk of having a lot of idle time. My suggestion would be to have some 90 minute sessions in all tracks, but generally keep sessions to 45 minutes.
I guess instead of calling it BoF, we'd call it HoF (Hackers of a Feather). :-)
Conclude the conference with a lightning-talk style overview of all the things we HoF'ed, highlighting what we've now completed and collectively discuss what we need to do next Project-wide.
If we want just a hack fest that's fine, but then we should call it that. However, this would clearly segregate people as techies will go to the techie hack sessions, marketing folks will do their thing, etc. In a more traditional setup you will get people from all areas in some sessions, thus it is more friendly to the overall community, rather than splitting the community into smaller pieces.
And this can still include inviting other projects to join in on collaborative hackings that are mutually beneficial.
I think this would also be a community-growth effect because some people attend conferences but are in sort of "lurker-mode."
We can argue about this. IMHO just focusing on hacking activities does not encourage cross-pollination. In the end we "work" on oure islands all year, techies use the tech lists and marketing folks use their lists, etc. Once a year we get together, we should be focused on providing offerings that do not separate the community. Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org
Le 05/04/2012 22:55, Robert Schweikert a écrit :
We can argue about this. IMHO just focusing on hacking activities does not encourage cross-pollination. In the end we "work" on oure islands all year, techies use the tech lists and marketing folks use their lists, etc. Once a year we get together, we should be focused on providing offerings that do not separate the community.
so, may be, we should focus more on the project and less on it's components. The fun is to work together, not to code programs or write reports. So why not use a motto : "working together" - how can we improve our workflow as openSUSE? Better use mailing lists, forums, IRC, newsgroups. How to make them communicate. Do we need a foundation? pros and cons. What is the role of the board? should we change it (the role, not the board :-)? How to make all the XXX.opensuse.org domain name cooperate. How to enhance connect? how to enhance OBS? How can we make openSUSE project better (project, not distribution), that is really fun for the members? many Gsoc are on this subject, why not ask the students to make reports for the conference? see the idea? jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org
Bryen M Yunashko - 11:33 5.04.12 wrote:
On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 18:00 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Thursday 05 April 2012 17:27:34 jdd wrote:
Le 05/04/2012 16:54, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
Problem is that we are pressed for time.
ok
So if you have an opinion on the theme of oSC 2012 (and you should if you're on this list and help organize it, it is YOUR conference) - say something until then!
I don't know if it's what you wait for :-), but what I can say is the following:
I was a gamer. I played with my childs warcraft, starcraft, and so on, including online games. I also played Monkey Island or Day of the tentacle, old timers knows them :-).
But since I'm involved in openSUSE (that is nearly from the beginning), I have no more time to play nor desire to do so. I play a real life game. I build packages and a ditribution, then a project. I play with other players that are real people, with real needs. I face real problems and solve them with the other project members help.
It's a virtual entreprise that is not virtual. May be. Virtual because my income do not rely on it - I do all this for the fun, not for the money. Hey it even cost me money (but less than the games :-). Real because sales are realworld sales - sales for free, but with real accounts, goals and people if not me that live from them.
So, YES, openSUSE is FUN, much FUN!
Have fun, boys and girls!
Ok, so you say for you this theme works...
Look, we have to decide what the conference should FEEL like. Last year we wanted lots of BOF's and a DO IT culture, so the artwork and posters said that, the talks were focussed on that etcetera. Now, what theme do we want? Fun is a possibility, that's what I'm saying - but there are other things possible.
I like the way JDD phrased that. In fact, I see his words as a perfect script for a video montage promoting the event.
So, beyond just "Fun", we do invest in these conferences for a reason. Not just to party, but to have an outcome, hopefully something specific. The first year didn't really have a theme, iirc, but second year we said "Collaboration across borders" and third year, we said "RWX" and Just Do It.
So, on a more indepth level, we have to ask who is our target audience and who do we feel will create the $outcome we desire? And what is it we want to "get done" at this conference?
I'm almost tempted to come up with the slogan "Getting things done!" and try to blend the past years into a both more collaborative and more discussion type event. Cut down even further on the number of read-ony presentations and give higher priority to longer BoFs.
A quick 45-minute BoF doesn't really achieve much in the way of "getting things done" if we're moving on to the next BoF and then the one after that. Making our BoFs more hack-ish would help. I had a hard time recalling all the facts and discussions to sum up after conference was over, and the particular nature of our BoFs really were "talk now, do it after conference" style.
So a session, let's say 1 1/2 hours long, where first half is spent on discussing things, and then second half focused on doing it. I guess instead of calling it BoF, we'd call it HoF (Hackers of a Feather). :-)
Well, that might work for few areas, but generally if I'll speak from developers point of view, you can't get a lot of done in 45 minutes. Day or two makes sense for small pet projects, but something bigger... Regardless of that what I like about conferences is meeting people, discussing ideas, sharing ideas and encouraging each other to do more. And having a lot of fun, of course ;-) So mainly during conferences I hardly get something done, but I get pretty long todo for after the conference and a lot of enthusiasm to do something! So for me conference is something like supercharge my todo list. I see conference as a place where things starts. So I would say go for something like 'Ready, set, go!' for theme... But regarding the venue, we are going to have not so many big rooms for talks, but we will have plenty of small rooms to get together and get ready for doing something. -- Michal Hrusecky <Michal@Hrusecky.net> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org
On Friday 06 April 2012 13:31:26 Michal Hrusecky wrote:
Bryen M Yunashko - 11:33 5.04.12 wrote:
On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 18:00 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Thursday 05 April 2012 17:27:34 jdd wrote:
Le 05/04/2012 16:54, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
Problem is that we are pressed for time.
ok
So if you have an opinion on the theme of oSC 2012 (and you should if you're on this list and help organize it, it is YOUR conference) - say something until then!
I don't know if it's what you wait for :-), but what I can say is the following:
I was a gamer. I played with my childs warcraft, starcraft, and so on, including online games. I also played Monkey Island or Day of the tentacle, old timers knows them :-).
But since I'm involved in openSUSE (that is nearly from the beginning), I have no more time to play nor desire to do so. I play a real life game. I build packages and a ditribution, then a project. I play with other players that are real people, with real needs. I face real problems and solve them with the other project members help.
It's a virtual entreprise that is not virtual. May be. Virtual because my income do not rely on it - I do all this for the fun, not for the money. Hey it even cost me money (but less than the games :-). Real because sales are realworld sales - sales for free, but with real accounts, goals and people if not me that live from them.
So, YES, openSUSE is FUN, much FUN!
Have fun, boys and girls!
Ok, so you say for you this theme works...
Look, we have to decide what the conference should FEEL like. Last year we wanted lots of BOF's and a DO IT culture, so the artwork and posters said that, the talks were focussed on that etcetera. Now, what theme do we want? Fun is a possibility, that's what I'm saying - but there are other things possible.
I like the way JDD phrased that. In fact, I see his words as a perfect script for a video montage promoting the event.
So, beyond just "Fun", we do invest in these conferences for a reason. Not just to party, but to have an outcome, hopefully something specific. The first year didn't really have a theme, iirc, but second year we said "Collaboration across borders" and third year, we said "RWX" and Just Do It.
So, on a more indepth level, we have to ask who is our target audience and who do we feel will create the $outcome we desire? And what is it we want to "get done" at this conference?
I'm almost tempted to come up with the slogan "Getting things done!" and try to blend the past years into a both more collaborative and more discussion type event. Cut down even further on the number of read-ony presentations and give higher priority to longer BoFs.
A quick 45-minute BoF doesn't really achieve much in the way of "getting things done" if we're moving on to the next BoF and then the one after that. Making our BoFs more hack-ish would help. I had a hard time recalling all the facts and discussions to sum up after conference was over, and the particular nature of our BoFs really were "talk now, do it after conference" style.
So a session, let's say 1 1/2 hours long, where first half is spent on discussing things, and then second half focused on doing it. I guess instead of calling it BoF, we'd call it HoF (Hackers of a Feather). :-)
Well, that might work for few areas, but generally if I'll speak from developers point of view, you can't get a lot of done in 45 minutes. Day or two makes sense for small pet projects, but something bigger...
Regardless of that what I like about conferences is meeting people, discussing ideas, sharing ideas and encouraging each other to do more. And having a lot of fun, of course ;-) So mainly during conferences I hardly get something done, but I get pretty long todo for after the conference and a lot of enthusiasm to do something!
I think this, as we'd say in the Netherlands, hits the nail on the head. I actually think our goal for this conference could be to not get work done but supercharge people. Creativity, new things, new ideas - and let's be honest, we're all big geeks and get excited over that: that is our FUN. Moreover, we've had our share of bad discussions lately. Unfriendly and rude behavior, endless fights and most damaging: people are assuming the worst from others. That really makes me feel down, personally, and I know others feel similarly. That was actually the thought behind the 'fun' - let's try and bring the fun back. Focus on interesting, creative, new ideas. Prefer a talk about something fresh and crazy over a talk about an established technology. Prefer a workshop where you can learn new things like packaging in OBS over a talk about the state of OBS, get my drift? So, that would bring together the 'get things done' that Bryen mentions - focus on workshop and BoF style again; with the supercharging, creativity that Michal talks about. This can fit just fine under the theme of fun - we just have to make sure we 'frame' it properly, you know? It's about cross-pollination, hanging together talking about the awesome things we do and getting new ideas; learning new things and doing cool stuff. Fun. So the goal for the CfP committee would be to use those small rooms as much as possible - get small teams together thinking about crazy new ideas. Let people walk away from the conference with a feeling that they had a lot of fun doing interesting things, meeting interesting people and sharing interesting ideas. When it comes to sponsors - it's all about how you communicate things and I've been called 'the master of spin' for a reason so don't worry about that :D I have a sense that this would work for you all - but if anybody objects, it's not MY conference so please say so :D We're well past the deadline I came up with, but for the sake of "we should get the Prague team involved", let's keep talking and we'll make the final decision on the Friday afternoon Conference meeting in Prague. Imho a theme has to be carried as much by the local team as by the CfP committee and as the latter has not been selected the local team now has to decide :D
So for me conference is something like supercharge my todo list. I see conference as a place where things starts. So I would say go for something like 'Ready, set, go!' for theme...
But regarding the venue, we are going to have not so many big rooms for talks, but we will have plenty of small rooms to get together and get ready for doing something.
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