also sprach Ana Guerrero Lopez <ana@debian.org> [2014-11-08 21:37 +0100]:
> I'm not a big fan of the DebianDay because after trying different
> formulas, it never hasn't been worth the effort. We have already tried
> the idea of putting the "more broadr events" during the debianday,
> we did this at least at dc10. I also think that despite Heidelberg
> being close to other cities won't work -as happened in previous years -
> due it being in the middle of the summer holidays and therefore
> people just having other plans.
LinuxTag is not happening in 2015 though, so people will probably
have an interest.
Anyway, the important point is that it's really just DebConf, so
even if noone shows up, it won't really impact the conference.
About having the "important" events then:
> (*) Personally this is the only part that bothers me the most
> about the debconf open weekend. I don't like the idea of putting
> all the "important" events in the first weekend. It's nicer
> distributing them through the week and it hurts less to people
> having to miss the first debconf weekend.
I see your concerns. However, I think there are more "important"
events than we would reasonably schedule on the open weekend.
However, there is also the idea of scheduling more during the
beginning of DebConf and less towards the end to leave more room for
people to cooperate, discuss ideas they picked up, or organise
ad-hoc events. In this light, it makes sense to have talks like the
DPL and release team presentations earlier, don't you think?
> What about doing a "users minidebconf"? What I mean with this:
> - having the event in parallel to DebConf. (dedicating a room to
> this sub-event for two days.)
This is really a talks committee/scheduling question, and we already
had ideas into this direction, though I don't think I'd want to
make this a separate event confined to a separate room away from the
rest of the conference.
> - if you put "users" in the name, it will sound more welcoming to
> users to attend. Debian's development conference is somehow scary
> for people.
I think we should be calling ourselves the "Debian Conference"
anyway… ;)
> And of course, be clear that users are always invited to attend
> any Debconf talk, just we had a weekend with talks more adapted to
> them.
That is the message, right. We called it "Open Weekend". We can make
sure to address "users" more during our PR, and also note in the
call-for-papers that we'll have such a track.
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