OsmoDevCon 2013 brainstorming

Hi all, as the year 2012 has already ended or will soon end depending on your timezone, it might be a good occasion to start thinking of an OsmoDevCon 2013. I personally percevied OsmoDevCon 2012 as a big success, and it was fun to bring everyone together. Generally, I prefer to keep the spirit of an invitation-only developer+contributor-only event of those involved in Osmocom. At the same time, I would consider it a good idea to add a one day user-conference to the schedule, where we try to get interested users up to speed with the various projects, possibly including some workshops and the like. So schedule-wise, I would suggest something like: * one day user conference * two day developer/contributor event * optionally: 1-2 "hacking days". The concept of "hacking days" has proven to be quite useful for the netfilter project in the past (Pablo and I can acknowledge to that fact). I'm not sure how many people would be able to spend even more days of their schedule, but even if it's a much smaller group it would still be useful, IMHO. I'd like you to 1) provide feedback on the ideas about the one-day user event and the hacking days 2) consider whether late march (like 2012) would be a good schedule again 3) what we can improve from the last event In terms of improvements, I so far have noted down: * larger venue needs to be found * complaints about the venue not having sufficient heating Venue-wise, I would again suggest to hold it in Berlin, as it's reasonbly well connected, has lots of low-cost flights to it, accomodation is not too expensive and holger/me/sysmocom can take care of local organization related activities. Hoewver, if somebody has a strong opinion against berlin _and_ is willing to organize it, I'm not completely against another venue. Regards and happy new year, Harald -- - Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)