On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 18:58 +0200, David Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Murray Cumming wrote: > > Time for a wiki page then? > > I'd be happier if someone would summaries this thread, including the bit > on foundation-list (why did that drop off the CC?), and perhaps we could > start with a provisional plan of what GUADEC will be like.
OK, though you seem to have a clearer idea of that than me. I'm just trying to move this along so that Quim has something to work with. > We could then make the wiki page and have an IRC meeting (yarrr, maybe?). > > > Is there any reason to think we need anything other than the same number > > (and types) or rooms that we had in Stuttgart > > At least one reason... there were a number of things that didn't work > well in Stuttgart that need to be fixed. We once again had too many > parallel sessions, too much stuff on the schedule, too many > unanticipated sessions that had to be added in the weeks before the > conference. > > Glynn proposed a good "light" conference (although there are some things > I disagree with it's a good start). > > - 1 main hall for keynotes and talks > - Perhaps 1 other hall for talks > - 1 hang-out room, with tables, chairs, power-points, eventually some > computers > - 1 room with beamer, flip-charts, tables, chairs, power points & > network for hackfests > - Several smaller rooms for "work" sessions, BOFs (basically, the kind > of stuff we did Tuesday afternoon this year). > > The kinds of things we need to focus on are how freeform the 3 big rooms > are, how many smaller rooms we need (perhaps 5?) > > > Wasn't that > > - 1 keynote room for at least 500 people. > > - 3 smaller rooms for at least 150 people. > > - 1 meeting room for 1 day before the talks, for the Board meeting. > > - 1 meeting room for 1 day after the talks, for the advisory board > > meeting. > > - 1 hacking room for the duration. > > - An area for eating at lunchtime, and food to eat. > > - A small office for the volunteers/organisers. > > - Ideally, wireless (internet) networking throughout. At the least, > > networking in the hacking room. > > (Fluendo's streaming requires a certain bandwidth.) > > On Tuesday afternoon, we were occupying 10 or 11 rooms in Haus der > Wirtschaft - 3 large conference rooms, 3 or 4 smaller conference rooms; > 1 open-space room for a hackfest, 1 open-space room that was used for > BOFs and company stands, the main hall, and the office. Oh, and Nokia's > room. > > To reiterate my main point - I don't think we should use the final > result from last year as the reference point. I feel we should talk > about what people expect from GUADEC, and work towards that. Yes, but we've had time for that now, and I don't think Quim can wait much longer for something definite. Murray _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
