Colin et al., On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:54:57PM +0000, Graham Bennett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 06:18:42PM -0000, Colin Burgess wrote: > > Has a location been decided upon for dtrace.conf(8) yet?
Yes, it will be in downtown San Francisco. To prevent random strangers from showing up on our door, we are going to send the address out only to attendees as we get closer to the event, but you can use the Sun office in San Francisco for your planning purposes (the Sun office is a stone's throw from the location). The Sun office in San Francisco is at 500 Howard St., San Francisco, 94105. This is within easy walking distance from all downtown San Francisco hotels, which tend to be quite inexpensive when major conventions are not in town -- and certainly much cheaper than their counterparts in NYC, Boston, etc. Hotwire or equivalent is recommended for those travelling on their own nickel. Currently, we have 25 definites, 30 probables, and 10 possibles. So it looks like we're going to have on the order of 50 people, which I think will be a perfect size. Probables: please go on to the dtrace.conf page and update your status as soon as you know it. The dtrace.conf page is here: http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/dtrace.conf Please update it so we can start figuring out food and t-shirt orders! We have a very generous sponsor in Forsythe Technologies (thank you Jarod!), but we need to know how many folks we have to start making firmer orders. Folks who haven't signed up: it's not too late, but please do sign up sooner rather than later to assure that we can clothe and feed you. > In addition to this, it would be great to hear about any agenda > items being considered. Well, we know that everyone who signed up is prepared to speak, and we know roughly what their areas of interest are. So we know that everyone has something to say -- and I think it's fair to say that everyone wants to learn a thing or two -- so I think the next step is to figure out the format (or formats) that will best facilitate this. Some interesting ideas are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference In particular, the "open fishbowl" seems like an interesting approach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbowl_%28conversation%29 It would also be valuable to get information from those who definitely want to speak on a slightly extended topic. (I know that we in Fishworks for example want to demo the DTrace-based work that we've been doing.) Anyway, we'll get a page going on the wiki this weekend... One somewhat mundane question: what do people want in terms of meals? We'll provide bagels in the morning, and a catered lunch. Do folks want us to cater dinner as well? (We'd be happy to.) On the one hand, we don't want to coop everyone up all day -- but on the other, having 50 folks hit the streets in search of chow might not be such a great idea. - Bryan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bryan Cantrill, Sun Microsystems Fishworks. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list [email protected]
