On 10/02/2012 07:31 AM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > On 21:44 Mon 01 Oct , Ruud Derwig wrote: >> We're always open to suggestions on topics to improve the conference, >> thanks! > I'd like to propose to have to have sponsored Presentation as you do for > projects work, and maybe include in the project work sponsoring a presentation > about the project or about the work done.
We have done this in the past. For example, we've had developers report on squashfs mainlining work, or the watchdog framework work, that was funded by the CE working group. It is very common for us to include in our contractor budget some money for 'event sponsorship', so that we can help publicize the projects we are funding. (We wouldn't fund them if we didn't think anyone was interested in them.) Unfortunately, the timing just worked out poorly for ELCE. I had hoped to get a report on the UBI fastmap work that was recently completed, but it just missed the deadline for inclusion in the program. We are working on a project that is nearing completion now, on kernel dynamic memory allocation analysis, and trying to have it reported on at ELC early next year. That one was also not quite ready in time for ELCE. I share your concern that we try to get cutting edge topics of interest to as many developers as possible. And, I completely agree with you that it would be great to have ongoing discussions about the types of things that would benefit from CE Workgroup funding and sponsored exposure at conferences, Getting back to some ideas for building communities at conferences, one idea I had was to designate areas of the venue for specific topic areas (throughout the event). Basically, it would be like a themed hallway track. For example, there might be a specific couch or lounge designated for people interested in boot time. That would be a place to drop by and check out every once in a while, and listen to conversations and meet people with similar interests. BOFs are good for getting groups together, but many people are more comfortable with conversations one-on-one or in small groups. I was at an event once, where a large room was divided into 9 sections, and each section had a sign indicating a technology area or feature, and people met, introduced themselves, did a series of lightning talks and brainstorming. After only 20 minutes or so, an announcement was made and people went on to another topic. This was done a few times. It worked really well for the number we had (about 150 people), but I don't know if it would scale up to something the size of our current events. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment ============================= _______________________________________________ Celinux-dev mailing list Celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org https://lists.celinuxforum.org/mailman/listinfo/celinux-dev
