[opensuse-project] Kickoff Meeting Update

2 Feb 2012

      If you missed today's meeting, don't worry.  There's plenty of
opportunities to get involved in different ways.  Here is the link to
the transcript [1] and below is our summary of today's discussions:

[1] Transcript - http://bit.ly/yAPh4A
[2] Our Wiki Planning Page: http://en.opensuse.org/SUSECon_Planning

+++ Volunteers +++  

Please see the section on volunteers.  Just like the openSUSE
Conference, no event is successful without community involved. If you
see a task missing, please feel free to add it.  We need to move fast to
get the teams going soon.

Note:  You can still volunteer even if you don't plan to attend the
event.  :-)  We welcome all input!

+++ Calendar +++

At the bottom of the wiki page there is a calendar of milestones.  There
are several items in there now and soon our committees will add their
own milestones to the list.

Thanks to Peter Linnell's suggestion, we may be able to add an .ics
calendar to the wiki to make it easier for you to keep track of
milestones.

+++ Target Audience +++

There seems to be a good consensus on making the event focus on a good
mixture of talks and HowTo's, enabling our users to get their hands
dirty.  If you feel you have some input on the targets, we encourage you
to join the Program Committee where your input will be best heard.

Hackfests can be planned as we get closer to the event.  These can be
more ad-hoc style where people can gather in the main area or create
their own pockets of hackfests.

We also discussed making the event bi-lingual.  Given that this event
will be in Florida and an easy jump for many in Mexico and Central
America, we can attract more attendees.  This is supported by the
several Central Americans who attended today's meeting, and volunteered
to be interpreters.   

+++ Event Name +++

We don't want the name to be confused with our main Conference in EU.  

We proposed the following names, and we will create a poll on Connect
for everyone to vote.  

- openSUSE Camp
- openSUSE Fellowship
- openSUSE Forum
- openSUSE Huddle
- openSUSE LiveCon
- openSUSE Summit
- openSUSE Symposium

Got another name in mind?  Add to the wiki page.  All suggested names by
Friday will be included in the poll.

We will announce the poll link on Friday (Feb 3) and the poll will close
on Saturday (Feb 11.)

+++ Sponsorship +++

SUSE has graciously donated space to us to use the hotel venue after
SUSECon.  However, there is no guarantee of any financial funds that
SUSE will give to the event.  

We, as a community, need to step up and seek out sponsorships to fund
the event as well as travel costs.  Several people have already pointed
to potential sponsorship leads and we believe that many of you can reach
out to your own personal contacts in the world to request sponsorship
considerations.

We will leave it to the soon-to-be-formed Sponsorship team to develop
the guidelines and materials you will need in order to pursue.  e.g.,
formal letters of requests, etc. and coordination so that we're not all
bothering the same sponsor. :-)

+++ Communication +++

We will send periodic updates to the Project mailing list to keep the
community informed of the planning progress.

Committees will have their own discussion groups so that the Project
list will not be overly spammed.  I will also blog frequently whenever
possible.  (Look for my next blogpost soon!)

As with our tradition of openSUSE conference planning, we will still
hold a monthly "status update" meeting on IRC (with summaries reported
to the mailing list like this one.)  

These meetings will be held on Saturdays rather than weekday, once a
month.  The next status meeting will be Saturday, March 3 at 18:00 UTC.

+++ What needs to be done quickly +++

- Artwork:  Andi Silva and Carlos Ribeiro will collaborate with the
openSUSE Artwork team to create posters and flyers.  We need this by
March 1 so we can begin sending materials to FOSS events.  (Many events
happening in March and April in the U.S.)

- Once we have a name for the event, I have volunteered to work with our
admins to set up our website and configure Indico (our CFP management
process.)

- Committees need to form quickly and begin outlining their procedural
plans for their tasks.  Please sign up for a task soon.  

Thanks all and looking forward to a great event!

Bryen M Yunashko
openSUSE Project

-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org
To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org

Bryen M Yunashko

Chuck Payne

tags

participants (2)