Hi,
This format of a small, tightly knit group of about 20
people has been
successful over the years, and I have received a lot of positive
feedback from past participants.
Yes, I'm looking forward to it every year :)
Particularly the cellular infrastructure projects
(OsmoBTS, OsmoPCU,
OsmoBTS, OsmoNITB, OsmoSGSN, OpenGGSN, OsmoIuh & co) are somehow
"standing out" of the othe projects in the context of having a wider
user bsae, and in that user base also primarily commercial users.
This seems pretty clear that those project stand out in several ways
and could probably benefit from a public event. The reasons why
OsmoDevCon is kept invitation-only mostly don't apply to theses.
I think dev presentations regarding those could also be in the "user"
even, but I'd keep workshop / discussion style events to the
invitation only part.
Having both events (or both parts of an event)
back-to-back has the
advantage that a large number of potential speakers for the 'user day'
are already present, and they don't have to travel yet another time.
Definitely back-to-back, for the reasons you mentioned and I think
different venues would also make sense.
I'd also do the user part first, so that the dev part includes the weekend.
One could even structure it further and say we have
one user day, one
public 'Osmocom cellular developer day' and then the closed 'OsmoDevCon
classic', maybe reduced from 4 days to 3 or even 2 days only?
2 days seems short, especially since the last one of often just a half
day with people leaving and from experience most of the 'hands-on'
part are often done in the evening after the presentations and I'd
have to diminish the time we have for that.
Are there people lurking on this list who would be
interested in
attending a public 'user day' or even 'developer day' about the Osmocom
cellular projects, with presentations and workshops around topics such
as running Osmocom based cellular networks?
That'd be the first thing to know : How many people would actually be
interested to travel and attend a 1 or 2 day event. If it's only
people from Berlin, then the usergroup would seem to be enough ?
In terms of when/where, I would suggest to keep the
tradition of April
in Berlin/Germany. But I'm of course very happy if somebody wants to
host it some place else...
Makes sense to keep it in Berlin IMHO.
Cheers,
Sylvain