Thanks Rob, that sounds like a great program! I'd love to learn more about it and how LCA operates, we could surely learn a lot.
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 at 11:41, Robert Coup <robert.c...@koordinates.com> wrote: > Chiming in here, > > I agree with Adam's comments about continuity. I think the success of our >> conferences will be greater when we have a proportion of each year who stay >> on to support the incoming conference committee. > > > Linux.conf.au have solved this continuity problem with their "ghosts" > programme. Effectively, a group of organisers from previous LCA conferences > are flown into town over a weekend ~9 months before the conference, tour > the venues and provide an intense "brain dump" of advice, feedback, and > experience so the new organising team are not re-learning the same things > over again. Everything is on topic, from IT, catering, social programmes, > media coverage, community "personalities", talk/speaker selection, venues, > sponsors, marketing, conduct, wifi, websites, budgets — absolutely > anything, including topics & discussions that aren't suitable for public > mailing lists. > > Importantly the new organisers build valuable direct contacts with their > opposite numbers from previous years. The goal isn't to *tell* > the organisers how to do things — it's their conference and they decide > what's important, but more to bootstrap them so they can focus on what will > make their conference different and what they really want to change from > previous years while re-using as much past experience as they want to. > > The costs of Ghosts are factored into the conference budget, but it's a > highly successful approach that has worked well for many years for LCA. If > anyone wants to talk to the LCA Ghosts coordinators about the mechanics of > it I can introduce you. > > Rob :) >
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