Regular Community Meeting Week 41
Hi all, I want to remind you of the Regular Community Meeting today at 18:00 UTC on https://meet.opensuse.org/meeting We will discuss plans for the next openSUSE Conference and discuss how we can get more people to attend the meeting. You can find the notes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting [1] Please note that the "KDE's 25th Anniversary" is today at 17:00 (UTC). You can access this event at https://conf.kde.org/e/KDE25th v/r Doug Links: ------ [1] https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20211005
HI all, Please find the notes from Meeting 2 below or at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20211014 ## Participants: ddemaio, simon, gertjan ### topics * openSUSE Confernece June 2 to 4 Dates work for most people at this point There are a few holidys that week for different countries, so people would need to take less days off Need to confirm with Jiri ZBau 1 Presentation room available and seminar rooms * Getting more people to attend the meeting Calendar wiki could add some extention from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Calendars so we can have a master calendar for all the project events. Or have code.o.o. build to have a calendar like Fedocal. Just need someone who knows how to do it. The ticket for this is at https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/96458 Reminder: the regular community meeting are an option to create change for the project Publish the meeting's topic of the week in telegram and matrix so people will be interested or know what the meeting is about so they will join First meeting of the month on Thursdays will be an openSUSE marketing meeting during the regular community meetings * Next meeting Discussed NFT as possible digital swag ddemaio will give an overview on NFTs and platforms to us
On 10/15/21 17:01, ddemaio wrote:
HI all,
Please find the notes from Meeting 2 below or at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20211014 <https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20211014>
## Participants: ddemaio, simon, gertjan
### topics
* openSUSE Confernece
June 2 to 4
Dates work for most people at this point
There are a few holidys that week for different countries, so people would need to take less days off
I wonder if this would actually work against us, for the last few conferences the day of highest attendance by a significant factor has always been the Friday. Most people attending the conference including non SUSE employees are doing so on there companies time and feedback we got from some of them was that trying to make this work for a weekend conference was a significant issue for them. So I fear that while the long weekend might make it easier for a few people traveling who would probably travel anyway we may loose a much larger group of people who may choose to spend the long weekend away with there families. One of the things we discussed prior to Covid was running Thurs to Sat to help better target and attract a developer Audience which I still think is a good step in the right direction, but with that in mind I wonder if putting the conference on a long weekend isn't a step in the other direction from that goal especially if many people choose to go away with there family on that Friday to Monday. So for that reason I'd lean towards a different week maybe a couple of weeks earlier. If we were trying on the other hand to focus more on hobbyist then a Friday to Sunday over a long weekend would be perfect. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
On 10/22/21 3:49 AM, Simon Lees wrote:
On 10/15/21 17:01, ddemaio wrote:
HI all,
Please find the notes from Meeting 2 below or at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20211014 <https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20211014> [1]
## Participants: ddemaio, simon, gertjan
### topics
* openSUSE Confernece
June 2 to 4
Dates work for most people at this point
There are a few holidys that week for different countries, so people would need to take less days off
I wonder if this would actually work against us, for the last few conferences the day of highest attendance by a significant factor has always been the Friday. Most people attending the conference including non SUSE employees are doing so on there companies time and feedback we got from some of them was that trying to make this work for a weekend conference was a significant issue for them. So I fear that while the long weekend might make it easier for a few people traveling who would probably travel anyway we may loose a much larger group of people who may choose to spend the long weekend away with there families.
One of the things we discussed prior to Covid was running Thurs to Sat to help better target and attract a developer Audience which I still think is a good step in the right direction, but with that in mind I wonder if putting the conference on a long weekend isn't a step in the other direction from that goal especially if many people choose to go away with there family on that Friday to Monday. So for that reason I'd lean towards a different week maybe a couple of weeks earlier. If we were trying on the other hand to focus more on hobbyist then a Friday to Sunday over a long weekend would be perfect.
All good points Simon. We did discuss these exact topics and looked at the calendars. Bumping it up a couple weeks earlier would contend with the release of Leap from what I can tell. We haven't signed a contract or anything and will likely discuss this further; we can revisit the topic in our next community meeting. It would be good to read more opinions on the topic here that we can bring into our next discussion. v/r Doug Links: ------ [1] https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20211014
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