Hello, dear osg-users, so the vote is over and we have the winner city - with 8 votes of 27 Paris won the race. OK, we now know a city where we would like to have next osg users meeting/conference.
Venue: I would like to ask users, who are living in Paris, if they know some nice venue. I think the place for the meeting should have: - at least 20 seats (I hope there will be enough interested to fill the room) - beamer - wideband internet access (at least DSL connection) - some nice bar in the near (for the off-meeting activities :-) ) - very cheap or for free (maybe we should organize some kind of anonymous donation per paypal, as soon as we know the price, to finance the event) Date: I propose 04.07, so in almost exactly three months (saturday). Of course we could also take some other date (25.07?) in the end of the summer time, if you like it. Just make your proposals. Maybe 01.08, or 05.09? Program: I think users could prepare presentatios about their projects using osg, if they want. These could be NodeKits, Simulation Software, Plugins, Games, Research Projects, etc. Just if you thing this is a nice thing to show, then do it. I would then organize a small website (wiki page, forum page), where you can register for the meeting/conference, so that you get your presentation slot. All the presentations will then be put online to be accessable for the public. So you can use this event to advertise your work and your self! Financing: As I said before, the event should be for free. Of course there will be some costs (i.e. food/beverages, conference room fee, etc). I think the best way to finance it is to setup small donation box during the conference, where participants could donate anonymously the amount of money they would like. Completly anonymous, so that nobody should feel he has to. Additionaly or instead of that there could be a donation per paypal on the wiki or on the forum page, also anonymously. All the costs will be presented on the donation page as also the amount of donation done so far. I think this is the best way for everyone, what do you think? Video stream: As discussed before it would be cool to provide some kind of video stream outside of the conference. Users watching this could use the chat system as a discussion board. Maybe we could even organize some kind of voice/video stream to the conference room, so that user which would like to ask a question could do this. I would try to solve this technical questions with the possibilities I have, so that we get a working video conference environment. So guys and girls, I require now your feedback/thoughts on this. Best regards, Art ------------------ Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=9711#9711 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
