Hi all
First i have to apologise that ill have to miss the meeting today. it will be 4am where i am.
I would like to see an update on getting the extra rooms. and updates on the tasks we set out at the last meeting.
some other things to discuss are how to promote the barcamp style unconference and the hackfest day/s Making sure we get the best possible experience for all.
Is it possible to get a computer lab that we can put fedora on and run some sessions?
Thanks
Dennis
Em Sex, 2011-01-14 às 09:51 +0000, Dennis Gilmore escreveu:
Hi all
First i have to apologise that ill have to miss the meeting today. it will be 4am where i am.
I would like to see an update on getting the extra rooms. and updates on the tasks we set out at the last meeting.
some other things to discuss are how to promote the barcamp style unconference and the hackfest day/s Making sure we get the best possible experience for all.
Is it possible to get a computer lab that we can put fedora on and run some sessions?
If Alejandro and the Panamá crew are ok with it I can run the meeting today at our regular time, so we can discuss those topics.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Dennis Gilmore dennis@ausil.us wrote:
Is it possible to get a computer lab that we can put fedora on and run some sessions?
While this would be nice to have, I don't think it should be a requirement. Most people don't take to kindly to reinstalling the operating system on an entire computer lab, especially in a university setting.
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader
I think this issue was argued on the first meeting, there is not computer lab on the Ciudad del Saber Campus (CdS), it is not a university, so there are not computer labs for us to use, please check http://www.ciudaddelsaber.org/en CdS is a Business, Scientific and Technological Park.
There is not requirement on any of the fudcon documentation rewarding a computer lab facility, therefore was not even consider at the BID.
In the case we can ask one of the Universities that are helping with fudcon, to allow us one computer lab it will have to be on that University facilities, not sure if we want to split the audience to some place else.
del On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 09:47 -0500, Jared K. Smith wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Dennis Gilmore dennis@ausil.us wrote:
Is it possible to get a computer lab that we can put fedora on and run some sessions?
While this would be nice to have, I don't think it should be a requirement. Most people don't take to kindly to reinstalling the operating system on an entire computer lab, especially in a university setting.
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ fudcon-planning mailing list fudcon-planning@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
At today's meeting we ratified the agreement from the previous meeting:
1 room for 200 people for the first day. 3 rooms for the two other days.
But since we want two hours for lunch and we would like to have more talks on the first day we asked Alejandro to check if it is possible to extend the schedule until 18:00.
We will also have translated information explaining what hackfests and barcamp sessions are about.
For the next meeting we are willing to decide how we will handle travel subsidies.
Here are the meeting minutes:
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-01-14/fudcon_latam.201... Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-01-14/fudcon_latam.201... Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-01-14/fudcon_latam.201...
We can not have only one room. If we do we can not run a fudcon.
"Igor Pires Soares" igorsoares@gmail.com wrote:
At today's meeting we ratified the agreement from the previous meeting:
1 room for 200 people for the first day. 3 rooms for the two other days.
But since we want two hours for lunch and we would like to have more talks on the first day we asked Alejandro to check if it is possible to extend the schedule until 18:00.
We will also have translated information explaining what hackfests and barcamp sessions are about.
For the next meeting we are willing to decide how we will handle travel subsidies.
Here are the meeting minutes:
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-01-14/fudcon_latam.201... Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-01-14/fudcon_latam.201... Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-01-14/fudcon_latam.201...
-- Igor Pires Soares Fedora Ambassador (Brazil) - Member of FAmSCo Fedora I18N/L10N QA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Igor
fudcon-planning mailing list fudcon-planning@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Dennis Gilmore dennis@ausil.us wrote:
We can not have only one room. If we do we can not run a fudcon.
Isn't that going a bit overboard, Dennis? As I explained in today's meeting, it would be better if there were more than one room on the first day, but if the only thing we can get is one room, we'll make it work. We certainly have some flexibility in the way we run FUDCons -- they don't all have to be exactly like every other FUDCon in the world.
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project
Dennis,
With the available infrastructure at this point is impossible to have the fudcon barcamp style, I don't understand.
What make it impossible to have a fudcon with one room the first day.
Please explain the activities for the first day, what is the plan. That is what I have not seem, only room request but nothing telling me why and for what they will be used.
There is not plan not really organization for the event at this point that I can show to the sponsor so they understand why this changes.
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 06:34 +1000, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
We can not have only one room. If we do we can not run a fudcon.
"Igor Pires Soares" igorsoares@gmail.com wrote:
At today's meeting we ratified the agreement from the previous meeting:
1 room for 200 people for the first day. 3 rooms for the two other days.
But since we want two hours for lunch and we would like to have more talks on the first day we asked Alejandro to check if it is possible to extend the schedule until 18:00.
We will also have translated information explaining what hackfests and barcamp sessions are about.
For the next meeting we are willing to decide how we will handle travel subsidies.
Here are the meeting minutes:
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-01-14/fudcon_latam.201... Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-01-14/fudcon_latam.201... Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-01-14/fudcon_latam.201...
-- Igor Pires Soares Fedora Ambassador (Brazil) - Member of FAmSCo Fedora I18N/L10N QA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Igor
fudcon-planning mailing list fudcon-planning@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 05:31:23PM -0500, Alejandro Pérez wrote:
Dennis,
With the available infrastructure at this point is impossible to have the fudcon barcamp style, I don't understand.
What make it impossible to have a fudcon with one room the first day.
Please explain the activities for the first day, what is the plan. That is what I have not seem, only room request but nothing telling me why and for what they will be used.
There is not plan not really organization for the event at this point that I can show to the sponsor so they understand why this changes.
So my thoughts are, and they are just my thoughts. If we have 2 or 3 rooms on the first day we can start with a introduction followed by people pitching there talks. we then go though the barcamp voting and scheduling process. we would then have only talks on day 1, day 2 could then be a mixture of talks and hackfest sessions. and day 3 just hackfest sessions
The reason i asked if its possible to get a computer lab is that based on past experiences lots of people either do not have laptops or do not bring them. which can make hackfests a bit harder. but its certainly not critical we have gotten by without it at the previous fudcons. it was identified as a nice to have thing.
If we can only have one room on the first day then we could approach it by having a list of talks for that day prepared in advance. we could then do the barcamp on day 2 and hackfests on day 3
What i was getting at and sorry i was a bit terse i had just woken up. is that when we can only do 1 stream it does not make much sense to go through the process of presenting your talk proposals. writing them up and voting on them. because then we can not cater the streams to suit the different peoples interests. We can only do a single stream.
Dennis
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 06:34 +1000, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
We can not have only one room. If we do we can not run a fudcon.
"Igor Pires Soares" igorsoares@gmail.com wrote:
At today's meeting we ratified the agreement from the previous meeting:
1 room for 200 people for the first day. 3 rooms for the two other days.
But since we want two hours for lunch and we would like to have more talks on the first day we asked Alejandro to check if it is possible to extend the schedule until 18:00.
We will also have translated information explaining what hackfests and barcamp sessions are about.
For the next meeting we are willing to decide how we will handle travel subsidies.
Here are the meeting minutes:
Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-01-14/fudcon_latam.201... Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-01-14/fudcon_latam.201... Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2011-01-14/fudcon_latam.201...
-- Igor Pires Soares Fedora Ambassador (Brazil) - Member of FAmSCo Fedora I18N/L10N QA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Igor
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Em Sex, 2011-01-14 às 17:12 -0600, Dennis Gilmore escreveu:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 05:31:23PM -0500, Alejandro Pérez wrote:
Dennis,
With the available infrastructure at this point is impossible to have the fudcon barcamp style, I don't understand.
What make it impossible to have a fudcon with one room the first day.
Please explain the activities for the first day, what is the plan. That is what I have not seem, only room request but nothing telling me why and for what they will be used.
There is not plan not really organization for the event at this point that I can show to the sponsor so they understand why this changes.
So my thoughts are, and they are just my thoughts. If we have 2 or 3 rooms on the first day we can start with a introduction followed by people pitching there talks. we then go though the barcamp voting and scheduling process. we would then have only talks on day 1, day 2 could then be a mixture of talks and hackfest sessions. and day 3 just hackfest sessions
Alejandro, taking into consideration what Dennis said, it is enough information for sponsors in order to justify these changes?
Since the current room availability was agreed before this meeting I'm not feeling like change it is a good ideia, unless it won't cause any embarrassment to organizers.
The reason i asked if its possible to get a computer lab is that based on past experiences lots of people either do not have laptops or do not bring them. which can make hackfests a bit harder. but its certainly not critical we have gotten by without it at the previous fudcons. it was identified as a nice to have thing.
IMHO A computer lab would be great. During the Bid process we had venues with this capability but it wasn't identified as a major characteristic for taking the decision. If this is not possible now, we should advise the hackfest participants to come with their laptops.
On the decision meeting those liabilities were discussed a lot and everyone was aware of the advantages and disadvantages of each venue. Since the decision is taken we should support them and work together to address those issues considering all limitations.
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