2013/12/11 Svebor Prstačić
Hi,
On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 15:07 +0100, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey,
On 11.12.2013 13:58, Svebor Prstačić wrote:
We have been thinking about a business track idea for oSC14, but aren't sure whether to do this (and how) or not.
I think you need to define what you mean by "business track" or we're going to discuss this to death again.
Series of business lectures by sponsors (or individuals if the committee decides the topic is of interest) in a single room, whole morning, afternoon or day (depending on interest and demand).
We could say that if you intend to talk about your business, you must be a sponsor.
* The DOs * - lectures are openSUSE related - lectures are free software or open source related
* The DON’Ts * - talk excessively about your company and your products, sales talks
This is a general rule for oSC and doesn't differentiate the "business track" from other tracks. What does? :-)
That would at least be the title. :-) And of course topics must be business related too.
Would it be too much to allow the program committee to be a little more flexible with accepting business topics from sponsors that aren't strictly related to openSUSE, but are related in general to Linux, free software or open source?
Of course, another possibility is to let the sponsors go (almost) wild with topics. Not sure how acceptable that would be though.
Svebor
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Hi Svebor, The last three conferences, oSC11, oSC12 and oSC13 I worked helping to find sponsors. Since a horrible brochure that thanks to Tigerfoot became really nice for 2011, and in 2012 and 2013 the brochure were based in the 2011 one but with corrections reviewed by SUSE lawyers in any case. My goal wasn't try to find "local companies", based in Nuremberg 2011, Prague for 2012 and Thessaloniki for 2013. The local organizers dealed with them. When the partner was related to Social Media, e.g., Linux Magazine we addressed to SUSE/Jos to talk to them. We had good sponsors and their employees willing to participate followed the CfP deadline. It happened twice the sponsors didn't want a slot for talks. We had partners either and in these case most of them were speakers - or how the main organizers wanted - Keynote. To be considerer a partner besides keynote they paid for their own trip. I can send more details and in case you want share some networking. Izabel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org