A good ole' TEXAS Chili Cook-off w/celebrity judges sounds good to me! Much more fun. From the standard panel/event functions...seems it all could use a bit more livening up.
Heck...Put a judge's gallery up front, or scattered about.... then have a limited # of general Populus wonder thru to sample....Charge a $2.00 - $3.00 chili sampling fee, this may fill the hotel's requirement for a banquet...the $$ would go into the banquet kitty ...for them to supply tables, linen and such. May even cover costs of decorations/disposable plates/napkins/spoons....water/pop? Why not put some more breaks into the schedule....do some walk-about/tech - fan stuff, so everyone has time to mingle and not just be hopping from one room to another to hit all the detailed tech stuff. Kinda build a little spontaneity into it. Heck...we could do up the space a bit and have some country-twangy music going.... >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:21:40 PM 4/21/04 >>> Okay: On Sunday 11 April 2004 22:50, Troy C. Belding wrote: > Went to Scarborough Faire. Did some thinking about panels. > > Figured out how best to do the four GOH on saturday - or do we want to > spread them out? (the "Whatever you want to talk about" speeches) We've been referring to these as the "spotlight" panels, since they're "spotlight on $GUEST". We almost certainly want to spread them out; probably two friday, three on saturday (two day, one evening), and probably one on sunday. Saturday evening is _the_ most congested time in the schedule. By the way, Eric Raymond had a suggestion: instead of a banquet, we should do a . > I'm assuming that putting stuff like "What's inside that tan box" > directly opposite an Eric Raymond speech would work well - people that > would be really interested in Eric speaking wouldn't likely be people > wanting to know about the basic guts of how a PC works. Eric's talks appeal to marketers and businespeople as well as techies, and they might like the tan box thing, so it's not a clear lack of conflict. But we're going to wind up with a lot of conflicts no matter what we do; we have multiple simultanous panel tracks and we want them ALL to have great programming...
