Hi Klaas, On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 17:18 +0200, Klaas Freitag wrote:
Hi,
as agreed in the conference IRC session I am happy to ask you for your participation in the Program Committee of the openSUSE Conference 2010.
The Program Committee is respsonsible for the schedule of presentations, bird-of-a-feather-sessions and lightningtalks at the conference. For that it has to outline the rough frame of the conference topcs and issue a call for papers.
As a team, it will pick from all submissions coming in and assemble the schedule. It also might actively seek out for interesting contributors to the conference.
The ideal candidates for the Program Committee should be prepared to quite some work until and during the conference and should have a good idea of what the community might be interested in. Experience in FOSS conference organization would be ideal.
If you feel to join the Program Committee please go to [1] and add your name to the list. I think around eight people would be a good team. As a rough time frame, I think it would make sense to make the CFP public by calendar week 20. Let's schedule a first PC meeting for mid next week.
As a starting point a proposal for the Call for Papers can be found at [2]. Comments are welcome.
best Regards, Klaas
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Program_Committee [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Conference_2010/Call_For_Papers
The spread of topics seems like a good and varied list. I would like to see if possible the topic of Accessibility covered, maybe as part of the Collaboration Across Borders track as it applies to all aspects of openSUSE regardless of DE. It would be a great opportunity to get members of all DEs (GNOME/KDE/Meego/LXDE/XFCE) and look at ways we can work together and learn from each other in an aspect that affects us all. One thing that isn't 100% clear to me is the target audience for the conference, is it aimed at developers, users or both? Personally I would like to see it aimed at both, but is that the general consensus? It may be worth holding workshops to help enlighten people to the ways of the Geeko. Off the top of my head we could have workshops based around packaging/OBS/testing/kiwi/bugs. You could have several workshops on the same topic aimed at different levels of experience. Last year we had four tracks (one being taken up by the RPM Summit) with a fairly general topic for each track, is this what we want again? Would it be better to have more tracks with a more focused topic per track as mentioned in the CFP outline? Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin. PGP: 0x3A36312F openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org