Sorry, Szemir -- we are thinking too small -- we want big success and the inclusion of other user groups. I know we can run 2-3 tracks ourselves, but depending on what other user groups are willing to do, 3-5 tracks would not be unreasonable. For the more popular speakers and local celebrities, we may need to have the same talk a couple of times to compensate for the size of the rooms.
At this point we still need to be fluid as we do not know the level of participation from the other user groups, nor the amount time that speakers want, nor the number of speakers, nor the number of tracks, nor the level of attendance. All this will manifest itself quickly as the ball starts to roll. I have sent invites to 3 user groups already and have 2 replies for sponsorship (this does not yet include myself). For those of you that are thinking of Aaron, I have already sent an invitation to him. Hope to see you there (btw, the train comes right to Sait's door as well if you can get a lift to the station). Regards, Kin ----- Original Message ----- From: "bogi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CLUG General" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 10:55:39 AM (GMT-0700) America/Denver Subject: Re: [clug-talk] LinuxFest 2007 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 _______________________________________________ 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
