Bonjour, phpGroupWare as a project has been running for a very long time. During this time there has only been one conference which was over 2 years ago and only for developers. We think it is about time for a proper phpGW conference.
We are planning to hold a conference in France in November 2006. We have chosen France for the conference as it is where several of our active developers are located, it is close to other developers and we have many french users and an active French (speaking) community. We hope to hold the conference some time around PHP Forum 2006 (see http://www.afup.org/pages/forumphp/english.php ) as this is one of the biggest PHP conference in France each year. We want you to participate in the conference. Even if you can't make it we would like you to have some input into organising it. After some discussion we decided that the conference will run for 2 (maybe 3) days. One day will be for developers to discuss the direction of the project and to share ideas. The other day will be for end users to learn more about phpGW and to get to meet the people who have developed the project. We would like your feedback on the following ideas/issues Agenda What do you think users would like to see discussed at the conference for the user day? Keep in mind it is really aimed at people who admin phpGW installs. Attendance Would you consider coming? Why? Can we change your mind? Cost/Sponsorship We have done some rough math and think that the conference will cost around 5kEUR to run. This mostly covers to costs of active developers who wish to attend. We hope those employed to work on phpGW will be able to get their employer to cover costs, but this is yet to be tested. We have 3 main ideas for attracting sponsorship, let us know what you think of them: 1 Sponsorship You donate money and we promote you in return (such as advertising). We are looking at the following structure: - 1 Gold (~2kEUR) - 2 Silver (~1kEUR) - 4 Bronze (~500EUR) 2 Hackfest You nominate a feature and a fee and during the conference the feature is coded by the developers attending. All nominations will be taken on board and the coordination team and attending developers will decide which offer/s will be accepted 3 Sponsor a bug You nominate something that annoys you about phpGW and during the conference it gets fixed. Again a payment is involved. Nominations for bugs (along with contributions) will be evaluated by the coordination team and attending developers. Attendance/Entry Fee As many of our users are businesses or government bodies we think it is reasonable to charge a small fee (upto 150EUR) for those people attending the conference to cover the costs of the user component of the conference - including a networking evening. Let us know what you think. Please keep the discussion on list unless you want to make an offer of sponsorship, then please email me direct. Cheers Dave -- Dave Hall (aka skwashd) API Coordinator on behalf of the Coordination Team phpGroupWare +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | e [EMAIL PROTECTED] | w phpgroupware.org | | j [EMAIL PROTECTED] | aim skwashd | | icq 278064022 | msn [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | sip [EMAIL PROTECTED] | y! skwashd | +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Phpgroupware-developers mailing list Phpgroupware-developers@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/phpgroupware-developers
