Re: Dates format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-12 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! Makes sense to me. And if anyone knows what will and won't make conferences like GUADEC run smoothly, it's _probably_ Gil. I know that we discussed in the first meeting to have a pre-registration the day before and don't start the first day before 12 to allow smooth registration. Don't

Re: Dates format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Gil, Gil Forcada wrote: So criticism was expected? I understood as a set-in-stone decision :) Feedback was expected... some of this *is* set in stone, but I definitely prefer hearing concerns now, so that we can try to address them. Just from an organizational PoV: having the core days in

Re: Dates format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Johannes Schmid wrote: I know that we discussed in the first meeting to have a pre-registration the day before and don't start the first day before 12 to allow smooth registration. Don't know if they changed everything back in the second meeting... I don't think it makes sense to start

Re: [guadec-list] Dates format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:30:49AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi Gil, Gil Forcada wrote: So criticism was expected? I understood as a set-in-stone decision :) Feedback was expected... some of this *is* set in stone, but I definitely prefer hearing concerns now, so that we can try to

Re: [guadec-list] Dates format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-12 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! 1. Conflicts with the schedule for GNOME 3.2 (feature, API, docs are @ Aug 15, UI one week later). Basically the proposed freezes are right after the desktop summit. There is not much that we can do regarding scheduling GNOME as GUADEC has consistently been later and later in the year.

Re: [guadec-list] Dates format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Olav Vitters wrote: 1. Conflicts with the schedule for GNOME 3.2 (feature, API, docs are @ Aug 15, UI one week later). Basically the proposed freezes are right after the desktop summit. There is not much that we can do regarding scheduling GNOME as GUADEC has consistently been later and

Re: Dates format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Dave Neary wrote: snip Three things are worth singing out to GUADEC attendees as significant differences from previous events. First, the conference will be held later than usual, on 6-12 August. snip Second is the conference format. snip Third, following a lot of feedback after

Re: Dates format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-11 Thread Gil Forcada
El dl 11 de 10 de 2010 a les 09:56 +0200, en/na Dave Neary va escriure: Hi, Dave Neary wrote: snip Three things are worth singing out to GUADEC attendees as significant differences from previous events. First, the conference will be held later than usual, on 6-12 August. snip

Re: Dates format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-11 Thread Lefty
On Oct 11, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Gil Forcada wrote: So in short, one day as registration/pre-conference/hackfest/BoF day it should be a must for all conferences that everyone expects to run smoothly. Makes sense to me. And if anyone knows what will and won't make conferences like GUADEC run

Dates format for Desktop Summit 2011 announced

2010-10-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, As some of you may have noticed, the Desktop Summit dates, format and location were announced today [1] - and we have an updated website online [2]. Three things are worth singing out to GUADEC attendees as significant differences from previous events. First, the conference will be