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Subject: [foss.in] FOSS.IN/2006
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:48:53 +0530
From: Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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A few proposals (I have poked at these ideas in IRC, fleshing them out a
bit):
1) Move it out of Bangalore (preferably up North/East). I like Kolkata,
but it is upto the local LUG to decide if they want to host the event.
Hosting LUGs should note that if they are inviting foreign speakers,
they need to be at most one hop from the first international airport
that speakers will land at.
2) Define a theme, and a target audience for foss.in/2006. FOSS
enthusiasts is a bit too broad.
According to the LCA homepage, the three main community events
are:
The Ottawa Linux symposium
The Linux Kongress
LCA
OLS is restricted to the first 750 registrants.
The Linux Kongress has a partially restricted section, if I read
the website correctly. The tutorials are restricted, which the
regular conference is not.
LCA does not have limits, but they deal with a pretty small
population.
None of these three have an evangelism component. They are
technical conferences aimed at sysadmins and developers. Linux Kongress
and OLS have student discounts. LCA has corporate payments (higher),
self payments (middling), and student discounts.
We need to decide whether FOSS.IN is aimed at the technical user
crowd, or whether we want to evangelise Linux. Note that neither of
these goals is bad, but doing both together simultaneously will be far
harder. It may be easier to have two different conferences at two
different times with different speakers and audiences.
3) We need to add tutorials (at least, if not workshops).
Definitions:
Talk - A short (< 90 minute) session on a small subject. This may
provide an overview of a larger subject, or cover the small subject in
depth.
Tutorial - A longer (half, full day or multiday) session covering a subject
in depth. A tutorial is theory only, and not a hands on session.
For example, a Perl tutorial would cover language syntax,
basic data structures, complex structures, modules, CPAN, OO Perl, xs,
security....
Workshops -- Multiday sessions covering a subject in depth, with hands
on practice.
To convert the Perl tutorial to a workshop, we would have the participants
actually coding Perl (and C).
Practically, workshops can have the fewest number of participants, with
talks having the highest. Workshops offer the highest information
density to the audience, while talks offer the least.
Realistically, doing a good tutorial with > 25 to 30 people will be
hard. Workshops will be impossible (the whole point of the workshop is
to get personal attention from a tutor).
I would say a 5 day schedule works out ideally:
2 days worth tutorials (first come, first serve registration, limited
seats)
3 days worth talks (as we currently have).
4) I like the idea of miniconfs which LCA has, but IMHO, we need to spread
them across the country over the year. Fox example, the IndLinux stuff
happens in September. Other projects could do the same thing.
Devdas Bhagat
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