On Monday 09 May 2011 14:18:44 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Friday, May 06, 2011 20:21:53 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Hi all,
We need some decisions soon on a few things!
Questions: - do we a _separate announcement_ of the conf & 1-2 days later the CfP or all in one? Currently we have two texts: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Announcing_openSUSE_conference_2011 and http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_Planning_2011_CfP I will publish both (we need images from the location and/or a nice logo btw) unless someone is willing to integrate them so we can have one article. Deadline: Sunday. - Theme: the marketeers have to come up with a theme before sunday night or we use what we already have: rwx^3. Robert has made some nice graphics for that already.
- Schedule. Cornelius proposed to only schedule talks and workshops and provide a wiki page for the BOF's. It would need a CfP member stepping up however to feel responsible and make sure no conflicts arise. I'm not sure about this whole idea as we might have too many sessions and no quality control this way.
We basically did it the same way last year - just a bit more chaotic since nobody know what the process was ;)
How about we get up a list where you can add a BoF you want to do, keep that open until 2 weeks before the conf, schedule then and keep 20% open for AT the conference. So we have quality control, can do something about redundancy but also schedule it smart, for example in topical rooms or so...
We could also have some open slots on the wiki with times (not everybody comes all the time, so let those that propose a BOF, schedule it themselves) - and block every day a few time slots to be filled at the conference. Let's say we open the slots until e.g. 2pm and reserve those in the afternoon...
Good suggestion, made it into the CfP :D
Let's make it easy to schedule a BOF - and I agree, let's reserve some slots for scheduling at the event.
Andreas