Bryen M Yunashko - 8:56 2.10.12 wrote:
On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 14:28 +0200, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
Hi,
as we are going to have plenty of communities on the conference and they probably want some small parties just for themselves, let's give them a tool to organize themselves and to promote their parties (like the Gnome launch party). Let's put everything on the wiki:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_communities_parties
Jos: Do you think you can announce it together with telling people that there will be no speakers dinner on Sunday as there is too many speakers and supporters to fit to some reasonable dinner, so instead let's let communities organize parties and let people choose? And the community parties should be on Sunday as we have welcome party on Friday and big party on Saturday which is going to be closed this week... hmmm, maybe it sounds like a good idea to announce everything together... hmmm, will include information about the parties once they'll settle, so disregard request for announcement, just think about this as a heads up ;-)
Oh and this is also request for comments regarding what have I missed on the wiki page ;-)
-- Michal Hrusecky
Maybe I am reading this wrong, but this seems to be a way to fracture the conference by having all parties at once. I think there should be more effort to overlay these events onto the conference program itself to maximize attention to that particular event. For example, a GNOME launch party would want to maximize attention by having as many people there instead of just a few people because the intent of a launch party is to provide huge promotion.
And then again, some of the parties are really meant to be meetups of small groups that don't want to be having everyone there. So maybe those are the types you are thinking of.
But even then, I could potentially be part of two small communities and if both communites have their meetups around the same time, I'd be forced to choose which one to go to. Some community will end up the winner and loser in this design, imho.
There are ways to strategically overlay important "parties" or "events" onto the main program. If we can discuss this a bit further and examine what types of events you are thinking of, I'm sure we can make an idea that will maximize the noise level and show the rest of the world what they're missing by not going to oSC.
Ok, Gnome Launch party was a wrong example, but Gentoo, KDE, Gnome,
ownCloud, whoever party should happend on Sunday. Yes, it will divide
communities and yes, you'll have to choose which communinity is dearest
to you, but for all events together we have three evening and for two of
them we already have parties. And on Monady there will be just openSUSE
part with some leftovers. We can organize some other parties on Monday
and Tuesday, but I would love to see many different parties on Sunday.
--
Michal Hrusecky