So we have a main room 300 seats and 2 small classrooms, say 50 seats each, this sounds more workable, i might be able to make the meeting on the Sait around 5 on Tues, Sep 4 next. Now if someone can pick me up, i am carless at the moment, wife takes the car. I think we should have a very basic single track of speakers, maybe we can get 4 or 5 people to speak, and use the other 2 rooms sor sponsor product displays and maybe a workshop / installfest setup. I can think about maybe Aaron can do a presentation about kde4, hopefully he can quick squeeze some time for us, and .... well, i guess we have to do some more presentations, 60 days is extremely short notice for any of the usual speakers, but you never know. Cheers Szemir
> week at Sait. On August 31, 2007 09:55, Kin Wong wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
