Planning for OsmoCon + OsmoDevCon

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Neels Hofmeyr nhofmeyr at sysmocom.de
Sat Oct 14 18:24:26 UTC 2017


On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 08:01:40AM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
> * same venue, same catering options

Maybe we can improve the table situation -- in the main conference room, that
oval table by the sofa corner takes up a lot of space, so that it can be hard
to pass between the tables. If we could get smaller tabkle or tables and maybe
leave the oval one in the smaller room, we'd have more space to cross the room
as well as have a second room to sit in?

> * have better WiFi and/or wired connectivity

Air to breathe, clean water and internet!

> === Video Recordings ===
> 
> We should make sure that we can repeat this for 2018.

No doubt, that was super excellent. I could also show my family what we're up
to :)

> == Dates / Frequency ==
> 
> Having OsmoCon and OsmoDevCon back to back becomes somewhat long, if
> OsmoCon is 2-3 days and OsmoDevCon is 4 days.

> I still think it's good to keep them back-to-back.

For me personally, being away from home early morning until late at night,
including the semi compulsory diner, for seven days in a row is a challenge.
Usually I feel that I should be present all of the time, but if it's seven full
days back to back I think I'd need to take some time off here and there. I'm
also expected to make up for offloading parenting responsibilites during the
event, so it seems a lot to extend OsmoCon by two days *and* add another
OsmoDevCon day. Three more days without a break?

OTOH I welcome more time to sprinkle some open socialising between talks, not
having to hush almost all conversations because the next talk is starting. For
long journeys taken to attend, it can be more convenient to not have to wait a
day between the events. But for being a tourist in Berlin, a day off in between
isn't that much either? What do travellers think about a day off halfway thru?
For me, being based in Berlin, that would be very convenient; I accept that
most others may differ... do you?

> The qeustion is: Should that second event be developer-oriented or
> user-oriented?  Or again both?  Any comments here?

My intuition is that once a year is plenty for a user oriented event with
talks. Two user based events a year may encourage attendants to spread over the
two events and thin out / not meet each other?

I imagine that offering workshops for smallish groups of users apart from a
larger event would make sense any time, as users may request them. We could
offer a dudle to coordinate good dates to hold workshops [1].

For hackers to meet, the more the better I guess.

~N

[1] https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/
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