Hi Keith,
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:48:49AM -0500, Keith wrote:
Yes, certainly for OsmoDevCon, Seville would mean travel and expense for most. But how about the OsmoCon (assuming the decision was not to have them back-to-back)?
Possible, but I'm not sure if Pablo was volunteering for a significantly larger event: OsmoCon was 60 people this year, so I would expect it to be at least that same size next year.
I imagine that would mean a LOT more logistics work there, maybe too much, like bringing CCC VOC for example.
Indeed.
In terms of frequency, I would actually suggest we move to a 6-month cycle rather than a 12-month cycle.
Are you suggesting here to as an alternative to the back-to-back OsmoCon and OsmoDevCon, to separate them with a six month interval? Or just to have an OsmoCon every six months?
I'm open to all suggestions. But indeed, for OsmoDevCon I think a 6 month cycle would be great - maybe at the very least for people involvd in those projects with lots of development activity, such as currently Osmo{BTS,PCU,BSC,MSC,MGW,STP,GGSN,HLR}.
For OsmoCon: Annual schedule is probably sufficient. Nevetheless, there's a lot of user-visible changes happening with the NITB-split, so this year it would actually have made sense to do some updates.
But as (I believe) Neels suggested, we could always propose something like a workshop / tutorial and see if people are interested in that. Such tutorials could actually also be a "webcast" or the like, without physcial attendance. This would remove the burden of travel and the venue organization bits on our side.
Regards, Harald