[marketing-events] OOo RegiCon North America - Speakers
Hello Prompted by Jean, I have uploaded an Impress template to the OOoRegiCon web site, see: http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/regicon/oooregicontemplate.sxi Some speakers have indicated that they would prefer to provide a paper instead of or in addition to your presentation slides. You may consider this, as there will be many more people viewing the website than is able to attend OOoRegiCon. Please can you send me (jacqueline AT openoffice.org) your presentation and or paper to be uploaded to the OOoRegiCon website BEFORE you travel to OOoRegCon. The most often asked question at OOoCon was, "when will the xyz presentation be available on the web site?". If I have them ready to upload at the completion of OOoRegiCon, I don't think we can do better than that :) Remember also, that all speakers need to complete and sign the Linspire Speaker Release Agreement (http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/regicon/Speaker_Agreement.pdf). Many of you, the volunteers are speakers, so those of you that are not speaking I would like to ask whether you could look after your speakers. Perhaps it may be worthwhile setting up a buddy system, so every speaker has a buddy. Ryan is MC, but I think it is always helpful to have a speaker buddy and or roady so that all the speaker has to do is get there and someone else looks after the timing, equipment etc. Just a thought. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] OOo RegiCon North America - Speakers
Daniel Carrera wrote: What about those giving lightning talks? I can make an Impress presentation, but wouldn't that take away time from a short talk? I'm probably missing something obvious. Cheers, Daniel. You are on the right track :) Speakers presenting lightning talks do not require and are encouraged to not have slides. But you may wish to have one slide with the title of your talk, an outline or pertinent message or image. Just so that the audience has two items to look at - you and the slide :) I figured we would be using only one computer (with a ready standby) and all the slides would be on the one computer so this would minimise the setup. Also, it reduces the likelihood of equipment not working, especially if you are a speaker that is not going to the rehearsal. Yes, the template is for all speakers except lightning talks. As I suggested in my previous mail, if all speakers have buddies, then your buddy, could display the one slide while you are speaking. Just an idea. Regards Jacqueline On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:55:47PM +0800, Jacqueline McNally wrote: Hello Prompted by Jean, I have uploaded an Impress template to the OOoRegiCon web site, see: http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/regicon/oooregicontemplate.sxi Some speakers have indicated that they would prefer to provide a paper instead of or in addition to your presentation slides. You may consider this, as there will be many more people viewing the website than is able to attend OOoRegiCon. Please can you send me (jacqueline AT openoffice.org) your presentation and or paper to be uploaded to the OOoRegiCon website BEFORE you travel to OOoRegCon. The most often asked question at OOoCon was, "when will the xyz presentation be available on the web site?". If I have them ready to upload at the completion of OOoRegiCon, I don't think we can do better than that :) Remember also, that all speakers need to complete and sign the Linspire Speaker Release Agreement (http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/regicon/Speaker_Agreement.pdf). Many of you, the volunteers are speakers, so those of you that are not speaking I would like to ask whether you could look after your speakers. Perhaps it may be worthwhile setting up a buddy system, so every speaker has a buddy. Ryan is MC, but I think it is always helpful to have a speaker buddy and or roady so that all the speaker has to do is get there and someone else looks after the timing, equipment etc. Just a thought. Regards Jacqueline
[marketing-events] OOo RegiCon North America - Boosting Attendance
Have you told everyone that you are going? Did you know that the early bird registration has been extended until the 5 Feb 2005? It is still only $99 to attend. See: http://www.desktoplinuxsummit.org/ Michael Robertson was interviwed by OSNews.com and talks about OOoRegiCon. I have updated http://marketing.openOffice.org/conference/regicon and included the link in the News section. If you can think of ways to get people along to see you strut your stuff and see what all the fuss is about, do share. Assist us to make OOoRegiCon and DLS a successful and fun filled event. Include it in your sig, blog it, chat on IRC, let everyone know. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] OOo RegiCon North America - Boosting Attendance
Ian Lynch wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 09:20, Jacqueline McNally wrote: Have you told everyone that you are going? Did you know that the early bird registration has been extended until the 5 Feb 2005? It is still only $99 to attend. See: http://www.desktoplinuxsummit.org/ Do speakers and booth helpers have to register? I vaguely remeber something about having so many helpers free. I volunteered me and Rosemary to help with the booth and I'm doing a talk. Does this mean I and/or Rosemary should register as above? I have provided a list to the organisers, and your memory serves you right, there was a message floating to this affect. Rosemary has been included as a volunteer and included as your partner to attend speaker events. I will post a check list for speakers and volunteers soon, as I want to ensure that all of you/us know what's what, who and where :) Regards Jacqueline
[marketing-events] OOo RegiCon North America - Programme
One of our speakers has had to cancel. But thanks to Ian, we are able to fill the slot with minimum changes. People will be registering and getting lunch at 12.00, so I have been advised that it may be better to start later, so have moved the first speaker (Simon) by 15 minutes. See: http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/regicon/programme.html Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] OOo RegiCon North America - Programme
David Chapman-rxtc90 wrote: Jacqueline, You may want to review the times indicated on the web page referenced below - in particular the start time for Daniel and Ian's presentations. Dave Thanks Dave. Fixed. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] Are confirmations of receiving submissions for presentations being sent?
Ian Laurenson wrote: Last night I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with my proposed abstracts for presentations to the LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf. The deadline is before Feb 4. I haven't received confirmation of receipt so I am worrying whether the abstracts that I sent have arrived. Thanks, Ian That's because there are real people that need to respond :) You have mail. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] OOo RegiCon North America - Speakers
Ryan Singer wrote: Is there going to be a general slideshow with each new speakers name on it, or is that my job?-Ryan You can if you wish, but what I think you will find if you look at the sample template, is that the speakers are encouraged to include their name in the presentation. Daniel asked earlier about slides as he is doing a lightening talk, and I suggested that he have at least one slide with the title of his talk and his name. If Daniel has done his own title and name slide, then I think you have got out of that job :) As the MC, I would be attending and encouraging all the speakers to attend a/the rehearsal. I think Gary is the only one (so far) that has said he cannot make it to the scheduled rehearsal. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] Where is the home page?
Daniel Carrera wrote: Could someone please help me find the home page of the RegiCon? http://marketing.openoffice.org/index.html#events Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] Where is the home page?
Daniel Carrera wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:24:12AM +0800, Jacqueline McNally wrote: Daniel Carrera wrote: Could someone please help me find the home page of the RegiCon? http://marketing.openoffice.org/index.html#events Thanks. Making progress. I'm having a hard time navigating this. I've managed to locate the RegiCon page. I've been trying to find the template, but I just can't. My talk is ready, but I want to check something out on the template. I'm looking... http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/regicon/oooregicontemplate.sxi from: http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/regicon/cfp.html This page is not so obvious anymore as the link to the template was included in mail to the speakers and to this list. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] Sydney to Canberra on April 17
Ian Laurenson wrote: If anyone is travelling from Sydney to Canberra on April 17th I am happy to share travelling costs. I am arriving at Sydney airport at 8:30am on the 17th. Thanks, Ian Laurenson Hello Ian You may wish to post your message to the Linux Australia list. The LCA OpenOffice.org Miniconf is part of LCA (Linux Conference Australia), a roaming conference under the auspices of Linux Australia. Information about the [Linux-aus] list is here: http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linux-aus I'm sure there will be quite a few people travelling from Sydney to Canberra. If you would like me to forward your message, let me know. Hint: It is better to be subscribed, otherwise your message may be held up in the not subscribed list. Regards Jacqueline
[marketing-events] Sun Regional Delegate Program for linux.conf.au 2005
Hello The inaugural Linux.conf.au OpenOffice.org Mini-conference will be held on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th April 2005, two days prior to the official LCA 2005 conference at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Following is a message (http://lists.linux.org.au/archives/lca-announce/2005-February/msg0.html) wrt the Sun Regional Delegate Program for linux.conf.au 2005. You can enter yourself or someone else if you would like. But the entrant needs to be in Australia or New Zealand. Regards Jacqueline PS Other news, at the Linux Australia AGM yesterday the location for LCA 2006 is Dunedin, New Zealand. ---///--- Hello all. As with previous LCAs, Sun Microsystems has kindly offered to sponsor the Regional Delegates Program (RDP) for LCA 2005. For the LCA 2005 RDP, there will be ten winners: one from each of the Australian states and territories; a national winner; and a winner representing New Zealand. Each of these winners will recieve: - transport to LCA 2005 - accomodation - professional registration at the conference (including all the normal things which come with that) - special recognition as a RDP winner Additionally, LCA provides an important mechanism for developers to network with each other, and the RDP winners will have excellent opportunities to further their open source projects. This is the first year that New Zealand has been included in the competition, which has prompted some changes in how the RDP is being run this year. The timetable for the RDP is as follows: - entrants should draft a 100 word or less description of how the open source community would benefit from their presence at LCA 2005 - these should be emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], including an indication of where the entrant lives by midnight, Friday the 18th of February 2005 [1]. - the winners will be announced by the end of February and travel will be arranged. - RDP winners attend the conference and have a great time If a winner has already registered for the conference, then a refund of that registration will be provided. We look forward to many interesting entries, The LCA 2005 team 1: The information about where you live will be used solely for judging the competition, and will then be destroyed.
[marketing-events] OOo RegiCon North America - Speakers
Hello The presentation slides and papers that I curretly hold have been uploaded to: http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/regicon/abstracts.html I was provided with different formats and decided to convert those (that I needed to) to PDF. Where there was more than one document, I concatenated the PDF files. We used a CC license for the OOoCon presentations, are speakers ok with this for their OOoRegicon slides? An announcement about the availability of the presentations has been sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and discuss@ Hope it's still all fun :) Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf preparations
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I'm assuming we'll have an OOo booth at the main LCA 2005 conference all week, in addition to a 2-day programme, similar to San Diego. Is this correct? [snip] LCA (http://www.linux.conf.au/) is very unlike DLS. There are no booths at LCA. Some sponsors may have a presence, but this is very low key. Usually spponsors support part of the programme, e.g. dinner, or items in the delegates bag etc. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf preparations
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Jacqueline wrote: Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I'm assuming we'll have an OOo booth at the main LCA 2005 conference all week, in addition to a 2-day programme, similar to San Diego. Is this correct? [snip] LCA (http://www.linux.conf.au/) is very unlike DLS. There are no booths at LCA. Some sponsors may have a presence, but this is very low key. Usually spponsors support part of the programme, e.g. dinner, or items in the delegates bag etc. Thanks for the clarification. That's very disappointing for me, because I like being a booth babe. If I had know there would be no booth, I probably would not have signed up to attend. I cannot find anything on http://www.linux.conf.au/ or http://www.openoffice.org.au/miniconf/ to indicate that there were booths. So I'm a bit confused why you thought that might be the case. Oh well, I've paid my entry fee and made my plane reservations, and been accepted as a speaker, so I'll be there. Let me know if there's anything you want me to do. I remember too, that you were one of the first to submit a paper in response to the CfP :) Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf preparations
Ian Lynch wrote: I'm about to book air tickets. I am a little worried about travelling the distance if there are no points of focus apart from lectures and talks. Anyone like to reassure me that it will be worthwhile? I can't decide for others what will be worthwhile :) Jonathon has already replied with a summary about LCA, but I would just like to add what we have planned for the OOo Miniconf and other LCA activities, see: http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/miniconf/programme.html http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/miniconf/monday.html http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/miniconf/tuesday.html Information is still coming in, and of course I need plan B, plan C, etc :) During LCA proper, if you stay for that, there is the opportunity to participate with a: - lightning talk http://www.linux.conf.au/lightning.php - poster http://www.linux.conf.au/posters.php - BOF (Wed 20 April 6pm-10pm) http://www.linux.conf.au/bofs.php Depending on your level of registration, you may attend the "Professional Delegates Session" on Thurs night, and the "Conference Dinner" on Friday night. Also, I'm sure that if you know who is going, you may arrange to meet during the week, in and around the lectures and talks. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf preparations
Graham Lauder wrote: Hi Jonathon, Define the value. I must admit I'm a little concerned myself. Right now I'm a poor student trying to wrangle cash to get to the conference. Not having a OOo/INGOTs focus point would be a bit of a problem. Would you say then that this is pretty much a developers only conference. The programme is general, enterprise and integration of OOo in the morning tending to development in the afternoon, on both days. http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/miniconf/programme.html There are very few conferences that we can attend where we have the opportunity, particularly for OOo developers, to attract and mentor other potential developers and contributors. Fortunately, in Australia (and surrounds) we have quite a few OOo developers that are not employees of Sun. So their experience will be similar to most other developers starting out on the OOo codebase. As I said in a previous message, if INGOTs assessors and people interested in the INGOTs programme wish to get together, you may wish to propose and organise a BOF for the Wednesday evening. You may also wish to check out the EduLinux miniconf schedule and see if there are presentations that you would prefer to attend. It is called EduLinux, but it really covers OSS in Education. The inaugural EducationaLinux was in Perth, see: http://members.plug.org.au/~leonb/lca2003/, and for last year in Adelaide see: http://educationalinux.adam.com.au/programme.html At this stage you will need to contact the EduLinux organiser, as I don't appear to be able to locate the schedule for EduLinux miniconf http://220.244.126.94/lca/ Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf preparations
Jonathon wrote: > The main MiniConfs of interest to OOo people and speakers on this list would be OOoMiniconf :), the Open Computing in Government which is for a lot of government dept people etc, and the Education MiniConf for all the schools etc. Along with the LCA, there are a select number of stalls usually from the sponsors of the events. The miniconfs are listed on: http://www.linux.conf.au/miniconfs.php If you are registered for LCA, then you can attend any of these for free. However, the Open Computing in Government Conference (OCG) is a separate event, and requires registration (and payment) in addition to LCA if you wish to attend. OCG is organised by AUUG, see: http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/ocg/ Looking quickly at their registration details, you receive a $100 discount if you are registered for LCA. As for the worth of coming to the event, apart from the range of things listed above, there are people at this event that you are unlikely to meet at any other time of year or any place. Yes, some of them will be developer type people, others are lawyers, educators, government depts and everyday users. Having this diversity of events held together brings a greater mix of people to the overall event. It really depends on your purpose. Mine was simply that I was going anyway. I missed the Adelaide LCA, and having participated in the organisation of LCA 2003 in Perth, I want to meet up with the 100s of people that get together at this conference most of whom participate in the same online communities, projects etc that I do. Apart from that, it would be great to put some faces to the names that I have seen. :-) The hardest part about the OOo miniconf is giving up on attending the other miniconfs such as http://www.metadecks.org/events/lca2005/, http://www.debconf.org/miniconf4/, or http://www.openembedded.org/miniconf/ And if it all gets to much, I can always join the http://www.linux.conf.au/partners.php :) Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I have a collection of commercially-published books on OOo that I want to display and sell at the Miniconf in Canberra, as well as some copies of the user guides being produced at OOoAuthors. These books were very popular at San Diego, especially Andrew Pitonyak's "OOo Macros Explained", so I think making them available would be doing a service for the attendees at the Miniconf. What might be the possibilities for displaying these books? Perhaps a table at the back of the function space where people are talking, or in the area where morning and afternoon tea will be available? Could this be arranged? Usually, the talks are held in lecture theatres and there is no formal tea or coffee area. The programme (available in delegates bags) often lists the places to eat and amenities available on campus and surrounds. I'll check with our hosts, LCA, about the layout of the venue and what facilities are available. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: The programme for this event is not on the MiniConf website, which is still showing the Call for Participation with a closing date of 4 Feb. When will this be updated, at least by a link from the MiniConf site to the programme on the OOo Marketing website? Done. Although, the link to the programme has been on the home page since we updated it for the announcement of 2.0 Beta. I can't believe there are no morning or afternoon breaks, only a lunch break. Seems to me that a major reason for conferences is networking, and at every other professional conference I have attended, networking at tea breaks is a very valuable and important part of the programme. Obviously people can just skip a session and go outside the lecture theatre and hang around in the halls and talk if they want to, or wander off to a nearby place to get tea, but those seem like poor alternatives to me. I followed the LCAish (and other confs) tradition of scheduling around an agreed lunch break with the other miniconf organisers. There are no formal morning and afternoon teas as the miniconfs are considered as different streams and it is up to individuals what they do or don't attend. The idea is that there is variety and many choices. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I just discovered that the links from the main Marketing page (http://marketing.openoffice.org) lead to two pages at www.openoffice.org.nz/miniconf/ (one of which is the now-obsolete Call for Participation). Fixed. However, people are more likely to visit the home page and see the appropriate link there, than on the Marketing Project web site. Surely, with only a 6 weeks to go until the event, we should be advertising the actual programme? The miniconfs are an adjunct to the main conference. The schedule is mainly structured for the attendees to decide what presentations to attend from the eight miniconfs http://www.linux.conf.au/miniconfs.php Also, it helps the miniconf organisers if the lunch break is at the same time. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: [...] What might be the possibilities for displaying these books? Perhaps a table at the back of the function space where people are talking, or in the area where morning and afternoon tea will be available? Could this be arranged? I have been informed that LCA has in place an exclusive deal with a book retailer. Also, my understanding has been confirmed that miniconfs are not meant to hold vendor stalls. Having checked with the miniconf organising team, I will need to follow it up with the LCA organisers. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf - couple of general questions
Hello Ian Responses inline. Do you have any idea of how many people might attend an OpenOffice.org session? Not yet. If you have registered, you may remember that one of the questions prompts you to indicate which miniconf(s) that you wish to attend. I'm sure the organisers are counting the registrations to ensure that the allocated room is suitable. I'll check with them. Originally there was the concept of workshops - which I interpreted to mean people sitting in front of computers - is this possible? You will find that most people that attend will bring their notebook or laptop. There is always this mad rush to get into the room and sit next to power points and hotspots :) We are planning on printing a programme, so if you have any pre-requisites for your miniconf sessions, it may be a good idea to let us know ahead of time. I would be happy to run, in an evening maybe, a problem solving workshop on OOo macros. Given the time frames a workshop during the actual sessions would be very brief. Sounds good. BOFs are planned for the evening. You can always propose a BOF, see: http://lca2005.linux.org.au/bofs.php Regards Jacqueline
[marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf - accommodation
Hello Accommodation is getting pretty scarce in Canberra for LCA. I received a message on the weekend (along with other registrants) that accommodation had been made available at Burgmann College. See: http://www.linux.conf.au/accommodation.php This is $50/night including breakfast which is a very good rate based on my research of other options (see below). So if you haven't secured your accommodation yet, it probably is a good idea to do so especially if you are planning on attending all of LCA from Mon 18 Apr to Sat 23 Apr. Regards Jacqueline ---///--- In order of nearest to furtherest away from venue (ANU, Acton) Note: The further you get down the list, the less care I took when looking at the maps. North of Lake Burley Griffin) $116-$127 http://www.anu.edu.au/unihouse/accomm/accomm.htm $148–$198 http://www.questapartments.com.au/ (Melbourne Building, 28 West ROW) $140-$160 http://www.accorhotels.com/accorhotels/index.html (Novotel, 65 Northbourne Avenue) $130-160 Comfort Inn Downtown (82 Northbourne AVENUE) $290- Capital Executive Apartment Hotel (108 Northbourne AVENUE) $275-$323 Saville Suites Canberra (84 Northbourne AVENUE) Kythera Motel (98 Northbourne AVENUE) $180- Canberra Rex Hotel (150 Northbourne AVENUE) $89-$109 http://www.olimshotel.com/ (Corner Ainslie & Limestone Avenues Braddon) $140-$165 http://www.pavilioncanberra.com/ (242 Northbourne Ave, Dickson) $125-$145 http://www.motelmonaro.com.au/ (Best Western Motel Monaro, 27 Dawes Street, Kingston) $150- http://www.forrestinn.com.au/ ( 30 National Circuit, Forrest) $179-$189 http://www.yorkcanberra.com.au/ (31 Giles St, Kingston) $208-$233 http://www.waldorfcanberra.com.au/ (2 Akuna Street) $208 (includes breakfast) http://www.hotelkurrajong.com.au/ (National Circuit, Barton) South of Lake Burley Griffin http://www.hotelheritage.com.au/ http://www.pinnacleapartments.com.au/ $210- http://www.bentleysuites.com.au/ ---///---
Re: [marketing-events] Books for prizes at OOoMiniConf Downunder
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I have extra copies of several OOo books that I am happy to donate as giveaways at the OOoMiniConf Downunder. These include: "OOo Writer" (my book from O'Reilly) "Tiny Guide to OOo" by Ben Horst "OOo Switch" by Tamar Granor "OOo Macros Explained" by Andrew Pitonyak If an organiser would let me know you want these, that would be good. Jacqueline? Hello Jean Jonathon drew my attention to your message when we were talking yesterday. The answer is yes please, and thank you it is very generous of you and the other authors/publishers to donate the books. I'm creating a feedback form for each of the days. If we could offer the books as prizes from the collected feedback forms it may be an extra incentive to complete and hand them in. What do you think? Regards Jacqueline
[marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf - number of attendees
Hello Some of you have been asking about likely attendance. I heard from the organisers today that: "118 people ticked the OpenOffice.org miniconf box. Please note judging by the other numbers most people ticked at least 2 miniconfs. The number of people should probably mean there will be at least 118 people popping their head in to the miniconf at some stage. This number is about 10% of the miniconf ticks and adding a (big) fudge factor I'd say about 40." I have been contacted privately by a few people that wish to attend only the OpenOffice.org Miniconf as the registrations (500) for LCA sold out five weeks ago. The miniconfs form part of LCA and cannot be registered for separately. At this late stage I'm not sure how successful adding your name to the waiting list is, but here is the information that was sent out by the organisers. -- If you missed out on lca2005 -- We apologise we were limited with numbers. There was a waiting list set up for people who contacted us asking, so far we have been able to refund a few places from people who have had to cancel their attendance and let a few people in from the waiting list. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you feel you must be placed on the waiting list. We make no guarantees that there will be any more places at any time. My suggestion is that you get in early when the registrations for linux.conf.au 2006 in New Zealand open. Hope this helps. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] Books for prizes at OOoMiniConf Downunder
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Jacqueline wrote: Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I have extra copies of several OOo books that I am happy to donate as giveaways at the OOoMiniConf Downunder. These include: "OOo Writer" (my book from O'Reilly) "Tiny Guide to OOo" by Ben Horst "OOo Switch" by Tamar Granor "OOo Macros Explained" by Andrew Pitonyak If an organiser would let me know you want these, that would be good. Jacqueline? Hello Jean Jonathon drew my attention to your message when we were talking yesterday. The answer is yes please, and thank you it is very generous of you and the other authors/publishers to donate the books. I'm creating a feedback form for each of the days. If we could offer the books as prizes from the collected feedback forms it may be an extra incentive to complete and hand them in. What do you think? Excellent idea. I've often seen that done at conferences. What about prizes on Monday, though? People won't have handed in their forms yet. I'm pleased you like the idea. I was thinking of having two draws at the close of Mon and Tues. I guess, people that attend both days get two chances :) Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf - number of attendees
Ian wrote: Just to say I will be mentioning OOo in the Education Miniconference where I am speaking. I'm in Singapore on the way :-) Good to hear from you Ian. Safe journey and see you when we see you. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] Books for prizes at OOoMiniConf Downunder
[...] I was thinking of having two draws at the close of Mon and Tues. I guess, people that attend both days get two chances :) I like having draws in both the morning and afternoon sessions, not just at the end of the day. I have an idea for a way to give a prize in the morning session that could supplement your draw at the end of the day. Sounds good. I'm open to any innovative ways that you wish to give out your prizes. But do keep two for the feedback forms :) Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] Questions about sessions at OOoCon2005
Hello Jean Questions about OOoCon 2005 are better directed to the conference@marketing.openoffice.org list and I have forwarded it there. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] list is for all events other than the OpenOffice.org Conference. Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I've been reading the CFP for OOoCon2005 and could not find the answer to some questions on the web page http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2005/cfp.html Can someone tell me how long are the sessions planned to be? Approx 50 minutes including Q&A. And what is the difference between a "Conference Session" and a "Case Study"? No difference time wise, but from a topic point of view it is good to know whether a topic is to be presented as a case study (e.g. success story, i.e. this is what we did) or as a how to migrate presentation for example. You could look to the previous conferences (http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/schedule.html or http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2004/) for an idea of topics and time slots. All the best Jacqueline McNally Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project
[marketing-events] OOo miniconf in Dunedin
Hello Today, I received a message privately: How are the papers looking so far? What about registrations? I am curious as a good percentage of people last event did not like the idea of NZ or combined with LCA. I thought it would benefit if I responded on the appropriate OOo list. Today is the last day for potential speakers to submit their abstracts for the OOo Miniconf that forms part of LCA2006 (www.linux.conf.au). Since making the CfP announcement[1] I have received three enquiries directly, and one submission consisting of multiple papers has been received at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I found out late that some of you did not like paying a registration fee for six days conference, in order to attend or speak at the OOo Miniconf. This year the registrations were priced at AUD690 (professional) and AUD300 (hobbyist). Early bird prices were AUD460 and AUD200 respectively, with students and concession being AUD100. See: http://lca2005.linux.org.au/register/ The registration fees for LCA2006 are similar, see: http://www.linux.conf.au/register/ with early bird prices being AUD517.50 (professional) and $225 (hobbyist). Early bird finishes on 18 November 2005. My view is that even if you did not wish to attend the other four days of the six day conference, then the registration fees for two days of OOo presentations and tutorials is inexpensive. But then, I was going to LCA anyway, so focussing on OOo for two days prior to the main conference was not going to be a major inconvenience to me other than not being able to attend other miniconf presentations. It is considered to be a privilege to hold a one to two day miniconf. Also, we did and do not have to do it. Miniconf speakers and attendees are naturally drawn from those wishing to attend LCA. LCA is typically oversubscribed and the number of attendees is kept to a maximum to maintain what regular attendees like about LCA. That is, a certain ambience and intimacy for OSS developers and end-users to share their experience and skills. The focus is on, but is not limited to, Linux. I don't know how the LCA registrations are going, but the latest LA podcast[1] indicated that some people took advantage straight away of the early bird registrations when they opened in the middle of October. I'm puzzled about the "good percentage of people last event did not like the idea of NZ or combined with LCA." As some of you know, I did not get to see the OOo Miniconf through to the end as I was admitted to hospital part way through the second day. But I did follow up all the speakers and some of the attendees that completed the feedback forms [2]. A "good percentage" of these replied to say that a second OOo Miniconf in Dunedin as part of LCA2006 was a possibility. But like me, LCA attendees would be going anyway, and some of the speakers did indicate that they would not be able to go to New Zealand in January 2006. I proposed the OOo Miniconf for LCA2006 to the LCA committee as there appeared to be a strong and growing interest in OpenOffice.org in New Zealand. Also, I don't think it is fair to not propose an OOo Miniconf based on previous OOo Miniconf attendees and speakers that indicated that they will not be attending. However, as I said at the beginning. I have had few enquiries and one potential speaker submit some abstracts. So I will have difficulty promoting an OOo Miniconf, when really, if LCA attendees are interested in OOo, they may be better off meeting up socially or proposing a BOF, a lightning talk or a poster for LCA proper. [1] http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=260 [2] http://la-pod.k-sit.com/ [3] I only have the feedback forms from day one of the OOo Miniconf. Regards Jacqueline McNally Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Are you a computer angel? (www.computerangels.org.au) Linux.conf.au 2006 (www.linux.conf.au)
Re: [marketing-events] OOo miniconf in Dunedin
Jonathon Coombes wrote: I know that after the MiniConf, the idea was put forward that it may be possible to have two MiniConfs - one at LCA and one later in the year back in Australia and separate to LCA. OK, but this is independent of LCA and what they call miniconfs. This may still be an option, but I would like to think that if this model does go ahead, it would be based on the uptake of the LCA-based MiniConf growing too much and having to separate due to resources and attendance. I don't feel this is appropriate. As there is a maximum number of registrants to LCA (that attend the miniconfs for free), while I think it is unlikely to happen, I would not like to encourage people to come to the OpenOffice.org Miniconf if they do not wish to attend LCA. I would recommend that we try and get OOoMiniConf done as a part of LCA and then base the possibility of a second conference on the outcome of that event. I think they are two different things. LCA invites people to hold miniconfs. They offer the venue and facilities, and some promotion. All that we do is draw speakers and attendees from the LCA registrants to the miniconf. If you wish to discuss hosting a separate Australian event, please start another thread on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, I don't know about other people, but I have been very busy and totally missed the announcement regarding MiniConf. Unless you have unsubscribed from some OOo lists and AU Linux and OSS lists that you were subscribed to earlier in the year, I'm not sure how you could have missed it. I can count at least 4 or 5 times that you would have received the same message :) The announcements went out the day after OpenOffice.org's fifth anniversary. It was a very busy week, as a week later we released 2.0. So perhaps there was too much partying amongst the OOo folk. I sent the notices and announcements to all the same lists, projects and media as I did for LCA2005. Is it possible that some people are expecting it to be around the same time as this year, that is April? The LCA event is almost always run in January and 2005 was a special case for April, so maybe that should be pointed out to people so they know that time is short compared to last year? Possibly. I would hope that we get more people submitting papers. The last day to submit papers was set for today. This was so that there were a few days to a week to evaluate the papers and let potential speakers know before the early bird registration closed on 18 November. One of the complaints from last year was not being able to avail oneself of the early bird registration. Are you suggesting that we extend the closing date for the submission of abstracts? I'm happy to extend it a couple of days into next week ... As I have said privately, it is better to put on the best possible miniconf, rather than one, just because we can. I would rather release the venue and facilities so that they may be better used by another project or group if we were not aiming to do our best. I have put together a list of some people I know that may be interested in the MiniConf and will be letting them know and suggesting they submit papers. Perhaps it would be good for a few more people to do the same and see what response we get. Similarly, I will contact people over the weekend, and I encourage others to do so. Especially people who you think are attending LCA in Dunedin. I have included the miniconf organisers in my reply, but I don't think there is a need to continue this as our minutiae may get a little tedious for the other miniconf organisers. Regards Jacqueline
Re: [marketing-events] LCA Conf '06 Miniconf
Jonathon Coombes wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:39 +, Graham wrote: I'll be attending the conference. I'm booked to speak at the Education miniconf but I'll be spending the major part of my time at the OOo MC. Who else is attending.? What's lined up for the programme? What resources do we need? What resources are available? What has to be sourced locally I can have available eight machines with various flavours of linux and OOo for people to play on if that is useful. Hi Graham, I am definitely planning on being there. Not sure about the details myself, but I am certain there will be more than just us there. :) See you then. Regards Jonathon You may wish to get onto the LCA Delegates wiki, see: http://wiki.lca2006.linux.org.au/ Delegates are beginning to put up their travel plans, BOFs and additional social events such as Australia Day. My UserId needs to be tweaked before I can login, and I have asked for http://wiki.lca2006.linux.org.au/OpenOffice.orgMiniconf to be linked from the front page. If you have registered for LCA, then head over to the wiki and collaborate with other attendees and get something up on http://wiki.lca2006.linux.org.au/OpenOffice.orgMiniconf (currently blank). Regards Jacqueline
[marketing-events] Call for Participation: linux.conf.au 2007
"Members of the Linux and open-source community are invited to submit papers and proposals for presentations, tutorials and miniconfs for linux.conf.au 2007." From: http://lists.linux.org.au/archives/linux-aus/2006-July/msg3.html # Submission deadline: September 1, 2006 # Notifications by review committee: October 15, 2006 # Conference begins: January 15, 2007 For further information: http://lca2007.linux.org.au/cfp Regards Jacqueline McNally OOoCon2006 in Lyon (http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/) Are you a computer angel? (www.computerangels.org.au)
[marketing-events] Call for presentations: Women's mini-conference at linux.conf.au 2007
fyi Regards Jacqueline Are you a computer angel? (www.computerangels.org.au) ---///--- The women's mini-conference at linux.conf.au 2007 is calling for presentations by women on both Free Software technical topics and general topics of general interest to women involved in Free Software or working in IT. About the miniconference The LinuxChix women's mini-conference will be held on Tuesday, 16 January, 2007 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, as part of the annual linux.conf.au Free Software conference running from 15–20 January, 2007. All attendees of linux.conf.au are welcome to attend the women's miniconference, which will highlight the technical achievements of women in Free Software. The mini-conference welcomes attendees and speakers from other women's advocacy and development groups including Systers, Fedora Women and Debian Women among others. The mini-conference has several 45 talks slots available. Speakers should plan to present for 30 minutes; the remaining time will be devoted to discussion. All technical talks should be on Free (Open Source) Software related topics. Abstracts for talk proposals should be submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Friday, November 10, 2006. The miniconference will also have some shorter (5–10 minute) demonstration and lightning talk slots available, you are welcome to email us to express an interest in giving one of these, but they do not have to be submitted at this time. Please see http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix for more information about the women's mini-conference and http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Miniconfs/Linuxchix/CFP for full details of the call for presentations. Feel free to forward this mail to any women or groups you think would be interested. About linux.conf.au 2007 linux.conf.au is Australia's annual technical conference for the Open Source and Free Software developer community. Now in its eighth year, linux.conf.au is regarded as one of the premier global FLOSS technical events and attracts many international open source software developers and users. Returning to Sydney from the 15th to 20th of January, linux.conf.au 2007 is supported by our Emperor sponsors, HP and IBM, and hosted at the University of New South Wales. For more information about linux.conf.au 2007 visit our website at: http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ About Linux Australia Linux Australia exists to serve and promote the Australian Linux and Open Source community. The organisation aims to do this best by taking enthusiasms within the community, such as FOSS issues, projects, education, advocacy just to name a few, and help them flourish, to succeed. The lifeblood of this organisation is the people in the community, and Linux Australia strives to be both relevant and useful to the community. For more details about Linux Australia visit: http://www.linux.org.au/
