On Friday 06 May 2011 20:37:19 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
One more thing.
Imagine nobody adds to the list on the wiki and we get talks exactly like we ask for (and nothing else): Some areas we are interested in include: *Cloud, virtualization and appliances *(multi) touch screens, new form factors and architectures like ARM *OBS, packaging, Studio, KIWI
I'm sure there are more things to talk about... Come on, some threads get hundreds of opinions, now we need some and it is silent?
About that, robert S mentioned he'd love to have a generic 'openSUSE 101' talk for those not involved right now. For that we need to focus at least a bit at newbies at our conf. Not sure if that is desirable but in any case, the 'Sunday to Wednesday' schedule makes it hard. We'd need at least a Saturday, otherwise an open day doesn't make much sense. So should we do newbie stuff or give up on it?
On Friday 06 May 2011 20:21:53 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Hi all,
We need some decisions soon on a few things!
Questions: - do we a _separate announcement_ of the conf & 1-2 days later the CfP or all in one? Currently we have two texts: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Announcing_openSUSE_conference_2011 and http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_CfP I will publish both (we need images from the location and/or a nice logo btw) unless someone is willing to integrate them so we can have one article. Deadline: Sunday. - Theme: the marketeers have to come up with a theme before sunday night or we use what we already have: rwx^3. Robert has made some nice graphics for that already. - Schedule. Cornelius proposed to only schedule talks and workshops and provide a wiki page for the BOF's. It would need a CfP member stepping up however to feel responsible and make sure no conflicts arise. I'm not sure about this whole idea as we might have too many sessions and no quality control this way. How about we get up a list where you can add a BoF you want to do, keep that open until 2 weeks before the conf, schedule then and keep 20% open for AT the conference. So we have quality control, can do something about redundancy but also schedule it smart, for example in topical rooms or so... Decision Deadline: tuesday.
The theme and the announcement part have fallbacks for me: if nobody cares, I'll just do whatever I feel like ;-)
The schedule I'd rather not decide on my own but if there are no sensible suggestions and opinions until Tuesday I'll make something up :D
Cheers, Jos