On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Jeremy Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 17:44 +0100, Julius Baxter wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I'd like to propose an event for OpenRISC developers to meet up for >> discussion and presentation of recent and future work. > > Hi Julius, > > Good idea. > >> There's been an increase in the amount of work being done for on the >> project so it'd be great to get people along to give presentations on >> what they've been up to. I'd also like to have discussions on the >> future of the project, so things like implementation and architectural >> road maps. >> >> I'd plan it as a structured day of presentations (probably up to 1 or >> 2 hours each, including discussion) followed by something involving >> dinner and beer in the evening. > > I'd allow some space for shorter talks. What about some hands-on as > well?
Sure, I didn't mean to imply that talks must be that long, only that's the upper limit. It'd be great if we could hear about as much as possible, and in this regard I'd like to schedule shorter (10-30 mins) and even a lightning talk session if we have any takers. > >> Stockholm seems to be the best venue for such a meet up as there >> appears to be the largest number of active developers there. It's also >> a relatively cheap and easy place to get to on the low cost airlines. > > As a counter offer, have you considered running it as a joint event with > OSHUG in London? London University's Center for Creative Collaboration > would be a good free venue. A joint event? As in we run it simultaneously with a teleconference link? I was going to suggest that we set something up to allow people to participate remotely on the day anyway. But if it turns out we get a few people who want to present from London then perhaps this is the go. But if it's just a couple from the UK, I'd be open to having them present remotely. > >> Date: A Saturday sometime in September or October would be good. It's >> going to be hard to pick a date to allow everyone who wants to come to >> do so. I've created a poll for people to register the dates when >> they're potentially free to come: >> http://www.doodle.com/6fhk2bi9yw9arsrf > > I've put in my availability. You might like also to consider running > noon-to-noon Saturday to Sunday, so people only need to stay one night. This is a good idea actually. But I'm in two minds about this. If we get enough interest and presentation submissions to fill that time (say 7 hours on the Saturday, and then 3 hours on the Sunday morning) then maybe we do this - otherwise, we could just set the start time to 12PM on the Saturday anyway and run it from 12-8PM and then I was going to try to arrange a bit of a work/hack session, or further impromptu discussions on the Sunday morning with whoever is interested. The late start on the Saturday would allow people to travel Saturday morning, and probably be welcomed by all those who are inclined to go for a beer or three on Friday evening. > >> Venue: I guess somewhere with a projector and big enough to fit >> everyone. If anyone has some suggestions of where to ask, please post >> them to this list. I'll also contact some places that we could >> possibly use, but the more options the better. Ideally we'll arrange >> free, or practically free, venue hire. Hopefully the event will be >> entirely free to attend. > > Hopefully companies actively involved with OpenRISC would provide some > sponsorship. Well, we won't need much, but we'll see. I'll get some data on the most likely date which should firm up the venue options. Thanks for the input. Cheers Julius _______________________________________________ OpenRISC mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc
