Matthew Langham wrote:
People _seriously_considering_to_actually_work_together_with_me_ on the next edition, please subscribe yourself using [EMAIL PROTECTED] (listname inspired by the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list). Everybody is free to join, etc etc - but joining and doing anything else than lurking comes with a price...:Can we get something set up for discussing 2003? I would like to get a discussion going while the impressions are still fresh!
<rant>I know "seriously considering to actually work together with me" sounds quite heavy but to be honest, I just experienced the amount of work involved setting up this kind of semi-professional, but budget-wise still manageable event, and I'd rather like fewer people who are really willing to help out but then also are prepared to donate actual time to it (inside normal working hours), rather than lots of volunteers for discussion, ranting and whatelse, but no actual work being carried out.
Pretty negative, I know, but that's the experience from also being steering member of the xmlbelux user group, which conference & exhibition tomorrow are attracting only half as many people as our gettogether, even though there was a much bigger working budget. This is partly because of quite a few of us steering members who didn't have real bandwidth when the time was there for doing things.
Matthew and I did some talking (too little) yesterday, and at least the two of us -who might appear as having a vested commercial interest in this kind of events-, are pretty much convinced that getting bigger would be nice, but that we weren't willing to give up the formula and authenticity of this event for that matter. Hence remaining a free event if at all possible, hence having sponsors to carry the weight of the budget, but still not being prepared for making a commercial event out of it (and I regard ApacheCon as being a commercial event for that matter - with sponsor speaking slots etc etc).</rant>
Hope this establishes a good working spirit for next year's event.
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