I agree it is a crazy idea and I'm not sure if it would work, but I like the out of the box thinking.
If the site had one big space that could handle 500 people, you could just have one keynote session that both groups attended., I guess. That does restricts the options for locations, but not as much as needing a room for 500 people the whole time. Speaker wise, you'd probably only have to be there one extra day. I guess that might mean, however, that a speaker (w|c)ould participate in half of conference A and half of conference B if that is how they approached it. Edward On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Peter Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
