[MeeGo-community] MeeGo Conference Spring 2011: should we start organizing it or is it too early?

[Dave Neary]

Hi Andrea,

a.grandi at gmail.com wrote:
> I didn't know anything about the committee. Who is composed by?

It's in the wiki: http://wiki.meego.com/File:Organizing_committee.pdf

There are minutes from the initial IRC meeting last night:
http://trac.tspre.org/meetbot/meego-meeting/2011/meego-meeting.2011-01-25-17.00.html

and the call for venues for the European venue is out:
http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_Conference_Fall_2011

To submit a venue, you just need to ensure that it fulfills a small
number of criteria first:
* Capable of holding 2000 people
* Available on the dates mentioned
* In a city with easy access via air and good accommodation options
* Please include contact details for the venue ideally, so that Amy can
follow up to get more info and book.

So things are opening up. I'll admit that it's hard to keep tabs on this
right now, and I didn't get any notification of the various
announcements above on the mailing lists or blogs I follow, but I have
managed to stay informed.

>> soon be open, I hope - and we're also holding regular IRC meetings about
> 
> uhmm.... were they close until now? Why the community could not partecipate?

Up until now, organisation meetings for the Spring conference were
either in-person or by phone. The issue is one of practicality. Issues
were things like getting a website online, finding sponsors, confirming
venues and booking hotels. Not the kinds of tasks that lend themselves
to community participation.

As the focus moves to conference content and on-site detail work, the
organising group is making an effort to enable participation outside the
core group, and that is part of why I was invited to join. So I think
that's to be applauded and encouraged.

> I'll be happy to attend to these IRC meetings. Where I can find the
> scheduled of the next one? It looks like I missed some important
> emails :\

Let me see where the notification went...

IRC meeting (I also heard about this on the call on Monday):
http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-events/2011-January/000001.html

>> I'm also looking forward to seeing & summarising feedback from the
>> Dublin conference to help us understand what people want from the early
>> stuff. Once we know that we'll have a better idea what to plan.
> 
> yes, this is another thing I was going to ask about :)

I mentioned this in the thread about the early events:
http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-community/2011-January/003201.html
- I need to ping Dawn about it later.

> socializing events were great to know each other :)
> 
> Collaborating to a project with the same people you've played werewolf
> or built a bridge with, is totally better, imho :)

I agree... This gave me a thought:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/fashion/20GPS.html
http://biggestdrawingintheworld.com/drawing.aspx

We could get people to collaboratively draw the MeeGo logo in SF with
GPS. Not much engineering feat in that, though.

Cheers,
Dave.

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