IMHO, - and of course I am *very* opinionated - stretching this
exhibition out over several days is a major mistake. I happen to
like our Global Learn Day format where we have a 24 hour webcast
which opens in New Zealand, "where the planet begins the new day"
then takes a westward route around the world through about 50
countries, "closing" in Hawaii. At each stop, at about 2PM LOCAL
TIME, speakers talk and the audience gets to interact in real time;
often, where we "stop" local celebrations take place for several
hours...but the GLD "spotlight" moves with the sun.
We archive the whole event for one year, then build around it various
sub-activities, so Global Learn Day becomes more a Global Learning
Activity, all year long than just a single one day event that just
"comes and goes".
IMHO, a one week event tires people, diffuses energy and resources,
and makes the press less interested.
It's hard as heck to get people "up" for just an hour at time, but if
you think of a 24 hour event where, say, 50 people are "up", two per
hour, each one talking about a different aspect of Linux, each with a
different experience, then you link those conversations with a
travelouge, your timetable, your organizational, and your "time of
(global) day" problems are reduced. Considerably.
Shoot, if we had one tenth the technical wizardry you guys do, we
could do our event in a snap! (P.S. GLD-III takes place Sunday
October 10....speakers using Linux in education deliveries are
strongly encouraged to contact me, on or off this list.)
The above offered In My Humble Opinion.
At 7:29 AM +0200 07/07/99, Alain EMPAIN wrote:
>Hello Christopher,
>
>I agree with you and remembered to have taken position some time ago about
>this type of opinion.
>
>I searched into my sent mail... and I discovered it was about a former
>mail from you ;-)
>
>I argued about the practical aspects, but here is another side of my
>opinion :
>
>In my country (Wallonie, the French speaking part of Belgium), we started
>to enjoy a regional holiday ('les F�tes de la Wallonie'), done at
>different days at various places (useful for the public persons to be able
>to meet each place).
>For me the result is that, psychologically, the 'day' concept is
>diluted into a loose and less defined period and misses its expression
>power.
>Now it is changing (towards more synchronicity), but we have spent years
>without efficiently building the image of a common feast. In fact I do not
>know very well the schedule because when a city is concerned, the other
>ones are out of the movement...and I am living in the country, far away of
>the cities ;-)
>
>As Christopher stated it, ONE day is far more attractive for the news than
>something more fuzzy. If we place the psychological impact at the first
>place, we must consider this argument.
>
> Alain
>
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