Hi Harald, all,
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Harald Welte laforge@gnumonks.org wrote:
Another idea would be to split into a 'user day' and 'developer days' format. This is something the netfilter developer workshops have been using for many years, and from my limited insight quite successfully so. The "user day" is more like a traditional tech conference, with a large auditorium and talks oriented towards users / sysadmins / integrators of the software. The "developer days" are the invitation-only part, for known contributing developers only, similar to what we have at OsmoDevCon.
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.
It would be great to have a user part at OsmoDevCon and having them back to back is the best option IMHO - exactly for the reasons above.
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?
Not sure why public developer part can't be a part of the public user part? Lets just find a good name for it which doesn't contain word "user". :)