That is a crazy idea. I don't know about putting the speakers on the hook for two days -- particularly keynote speakers. Still, it would be interesting for a site to flesh this out and propose something along these lines.
Peter On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Fleming, Declan wrote: > Hi - so I know this is nuts. > > If we start with a couple premises for the code4lib conference: > > 1. Single thread is crucial. > 2. 250 is about the top limit of a single threaded conference. > 3. 400+ people want to attend. > 4. The conference takes 2.5 days. > > What if we ran the 2.5 day conference twice in one week? > > 1. Session 1 runs from Monday until noon on Weds. > 2. Session 2 runs from 1p on Weds until the end of Friday. > 3. Every one of the 23 accepted talks is given twice, once in each Session, > in the same order. > 4. Each Session is attended by a different set of attendees. > > We could serve 500 attendees this way. > > If everyone came for the week, there could be parallel seminars, hack fests, > BootCamps, THATcamps, CURATEcamps, c4lcamps, etc... for the half of the 500 > that wasn't in the main conference. People could also just decide to come > for the 2.5 day main conference, I guess. > > I SAID it was crazy. ;) > > D -- Peter Murray Assistant Director, Technology Services Development LYRASIS [email protected] +1 678-235-2955 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 800.999.8558 Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org LYRASIS: Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers.
