On 12/06/2012 10:19 AM, Vincent Untz wrote:
Hi,
In case you were not aware, SUSE has announced that SUSECon 2013 will be held in November 2013 around Orlando (Florida, USA). If you want more details, see: https://www.suse.com/company/press/2012/11/suse-announces-location-and-dates...
In 2012, we organized an openSUSE Summit after SUSECon: SUSE sponsored us by providing the venue (and some help with logistics), so we were able to focus on the content and on the on-site organization during the event itself. Thanks again to Bryen and Alan who lead that effort!
Now, SUSE is offering us to do something similar in 2013. Of course, we'd need to move fast if we want to do that (as the venue needs to be secured for additional days). There have been people suggesting that we should also have a booth during SUSECon, or even suggesting that our openSUSE presence should happen during SUSECon (as part of it?) to decrease the amount of work needed for the organization.
Yes, I think we should have an openSUSE Summit in a similar format to this years event. Having a booth at SUSECon would be great, but I would not intermingle the content, i.e. have an openSUSE track at SUSECon. I think we would be well served to have a "separate" event even if it does immediately follow SUSECon.
Obviously, there's the "will it conflict with the openSUSE conference?" question :-) We'll have some news about the conference in the next few days, but the short summary is that there should be more time between the two events than this year, so it should go much better from that perspective.
I have one big issue with this statement. The way you present the information sounds a lot like "SUSE will make the decision of when and where and you better like it". Considering the history of location discussion (what was promised last year, and the rumblings at oSC 12) and that there has been silence about the topic after oSC 12 I get the bad feeling that this whole topic is not going to go over well. In any event considering that we want sufficient time between oSC 13 and SUSECon/openSUSE Summit and that many conferences happen in July/August/September we might have to consider oSC 13 to take place in June or early July. As it is December already this would make it really difficult to pull off. Thus, a decision has to be made soon. My $0.02 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-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org