We have all been waiting with abated breath, but we now have something that is workable. We were working on Oct. 27 at Sait with the ability to run 2 tracks. The proposed rooms that held 150 per room and could be merged to a single room of 300 for the plenary session was exactly what we needed (not exactly as we were going to try for 3 tracks).
Unfortunately, that space is being converted partly to offices in Oct. So we have a single room in the John Ware building that will easily fit 300, but only a single track. With the involvement of other groups like Cuug, PHP group, Java group, Ruby on Rails group, etc -- I don't see it as workable. It was a short notice to a meeting that we had yesterday at Sait so invitations did not go out to anyone else, however I was meeting with Shawn about an unrelated topic and our timing mishaps with the Bank offered an opportunity to tag along. We now have 3-4 classrooms that will hold 30-50 people in addition to the John Ware space. Vendor displays are welcomed -- so we now have trade show space. Because it is a very short lead time to the event, there will be very little latitude to entertain debate or possibilities. We need to stick to what we know works and add improvements thoughtfully. We are planning to have a meeting with Sait around 5 on Tues, Sep 4 next week at Sait. Key supporters are encourage to attend as this is more high level planning and creation of committees. (If you have a keen interest and want to take charge but can't make the meeting, let me know.) A general support meeting will happen shortly thereafter (maybe the day after our monthly meeting. In preparation to the meeting, I would like to have contacted all the key Open-Source user groups, LUGs in Western Canada including CUUG, etc to participate. To that end, if you know of contact names, phone numbers or emails for people in these positions, please drop me a note off-line. We should all start thinking about speakers that we should be approaching. I would like our contact to be coordinated but not bottlenecked. This would apply for sponsorship as well. We need to have a centralized list that shows who is to be contacted, decide whether it is something that we want and then who will be doing the contacting so that we don't duplicate effort. This effort need not fall on specific shoulders. To make this event successful and a hit in Western Canada and to include other groups, this can not be a CLUG event but CLUG certainly will be a key supporter. So let's put our heads together and pull off another success. It is clobbering time!!! Regards, Kin _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
