Hi Shaddi,
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:43:00PM -0800, Shaddi Hasan wrote:
First, I think it's great you're considering doing this Harald. It's been exciting to see the user community develop around Osmocom projects, and I would be very interested in attending an in-person gathering.
Thanks! I think it is ver useful not only for the respective users (and developers) to gain more input on Osmocom related projects, but also equally interesting for us to get more insight into who actually usees the software in whcih context, with which goals, etc.
My $0.02 on splitting. I think the premise makes sense, given the very different focuses of the two groups, but I'd encourage if possible not doing parallel tracks. In my experience with other conferences, parallel tracks wind up forcing participants who are interested in both to make difficult decisions, leading to people missing out on things.
Yes, I wasn't advocating parallel tracks, I was merely iterating theoretical options. I think it would be too difficult both venue-wise, as well as speaker-wise, and of course the difficult choices imposed on at least some attendees as you pointed out.
Doing a temporal split (day 1/2 or morning/afternoon) would be my preference, but of course you and the other developers would be bearing the brunt of the time burden!
I don't see the actual event as the big burden, it's mostly the organizational matters regarding venue, catering, registrations, etc. that I'd expect to consume most of the time. And that luckily can be done at least to a large extent by non-developers.
At risk of bikeshedding, how about "OsmoCon" as a name for the entire event, with OsmoDevCon remaining the usual developer-only portion?
Good point. Unfortunately OSmocomBB already has an 'osmocon' program (the osmocom console program). Though the context should make it hard to mix-up, the programmer in me likes to not overload the global namespace ;)