There was some discussion at Recent Changes Camp about OSCON related
activities. Allison Randal from O'Reilly was in the discussion and
she's the liason between the OSCON organizers and the various groups
that were represented. The idea is to have a Monday night (the Monday
night of OSCON) FOSCON-like meeting where the various groups all meet
in one large space (or perhaps many small spaces - that seems to be
what's being discussed below). Anyway, I thought I'd forward this on
to the group. We'll probably want to talk about OSCON-related
activities at the next meeting as a means to start planning. The
OSCON Monday-night activities make sense from the OSCON schedule
standpoint (they have open rooms that night) - the only issue for us
(and probably other groups) is that most of the out-of-town
Ruby-luminaries won't be in town by that Monday night, I would guess.
Phil
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 19:52:56 -0800
From: Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Scott Kveton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gina Blaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Lauren Kilcullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brandon Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Phil Tomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Foo-style rooms at OSCON
I'll CC the main people involved on the Portland side, so everybody
stays in the loop.
Rather than a "session"-style room with rows of chairs facing a
single speaker, they're interested in an open, re-configurable space.
So, at any given time it may be 10 groups of 5 people, or 2 groups of
30 people, or anything in between. This worked really well at
RecentChangesCamp. Brandon, about how large was the room at the
University Place conference center?
Allison
On Mar 1, 2006, at 19:07, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Scott, some notes to keep you posted as we work on the FOO-style rooms
> business, and a questino.
>
> We are looking into getting expo hall space for FOO-style informal
> gatherings during the week. We're thinking one meeting "room" (a
> pipe-and-draped off area) in the expo hall, available during session,
> break, and meal times. We'd have chairs, perhaps a whiteboard or
> flipchart. How many would you recommend we aim to seat? I'm
> picturing this running Wed and Thu, so let me know if you think
> otherwise.
>
> Separately, we're hoping to have room space available on Monday night
> for FOSCON.
>
> Allison (the ever-wonderful Allison) is managing the liaison with the
> open source groups she met at RecentChangesCamp.
>
> Cheers;
>
> Nat
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