[maemo-community] Organizing Maemo Summit 2009

[From: gary liquid]

key dependencies to any summit:

plenty of beer, wifi, power-outlets and bacon.

berlin was strangely lacking in the latter.

would like to have a smaller less formal meetup within the country fairly
soon to discuss development.

gary



On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/2/9 Andrea Grandi <a.grandi at gmail.com>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > talking with Tim Samoff in these days, we did think it could be the
> > time to start organizing next Maemo Summit.
> > The first one was a very amazing experience (at least for me, but I
> > think for a lot of people too!) and we should try to repeat this great
> > thing.
> >
> > I wrote down some points we could follow as guidelines to organize the
> summit:
> >
> > 1. Country and city
> >
> > Where is the Maemo community located? I mean: where do the most of
> > people come from? Are there more american or european? I think this is
> > an important factor to evaluate when they have to choose where to
> > organize the summit.
> >
> > If there are 80% european and 20% american, it's normal to organize it
> > here in Europe, so the most of people can come buy them self and the
> > other can be sponsored by Nokia. Of course we should choose a city
> > easily reachable with flights (like a capital or a big city:
> > barcelona, madrid, berlin, london, ecc....).
> >
> > We could prepare a simple poll or a form to get some tips and
> > suggestion from the people that wish to attend.
> >
>
> The where depends on a number of factors.
> I wouldn't go for which country has got more attendees.
> This would work once, but then ?
>
> We should probably just "rotate".
> Let's come up with a list of possible candidates and then we choose
> how to rotate ?
>
> > 2. The place
> >
> > I think it's important to find a place like C-base for the next Maemo
> > summit. We are an open community and a place like that is very
> > comfortable and interesting for us geeks, developers and Maemo fans.
> >
> > We could take contacts with local Linux user groups or other similar
> > groups, so we could know how much they're interested in offering their
> > place for the summit.
> >
> > I'll try as much as possible to avoid places like hotels, luxurious
> > conference rooms ecc... first because they're very expensive, second
> > because they're not the kind of place that remind to community and
> > openness. What do you think about?
> >
>
> This of course depends from the place we choose as venue.
>
> > 3. Contents
> >
> > What should a summit offer to community? We should encourage knowledge
> > exchange in every kind of way: organizing small conferences and a lot
> > of light talks (they were one of the most interesting things in the
> > summit), create little groups of discussion (for example, 10-15 people
> > choose a subject and meet in a room to discuss it directly) ecc... and
> > the most important thing: we should ask the community what they expect
> > to find in a summit.
> >
>
> We should first find out a venue, then who is going to contribute and with
> what.
> Then organize the talks/discussions/etc..
>
> > 4. Sponsor
> >
> > The fact that Nokia sponsor some of us is a very great thing. I'd
> > never had the possibility to join the Berlin summit, since I'm a
> > student and I cannot spend so much.
> >
> > The important is to avoid wasting money. Nokia should
> > encourage sharing a room with another person of the community, so more
> > people can be sponsored. What do you think about?
> >
>
> Is Nokia going to sponsor again ?
>
> > 5. When?
> >
> > When should we organize the summit? Before a big release (like
> > Freemantle), just after the final release or after some months of
> > development with it? I don't remember exactly when the final release of
> > Freemantle is scheduled for, but I think that next September would be
> > a nice period... what do you think about?
> >
>
> As Fremantle is a big release, I suspect the Maemo team will be very
> busy with this release.
> This depends, thus, on them.
> I would go for right after the Fremantle release.
> Or, if Nokia would like to use the Maemo Summit as the place for the
> announcement, that would be a great time.
>
> > When we have some confirmed points we should start creating a page on
> > the wiki: http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2009
> > so all people can read and give suggestions.
> >
>
> Probably we should already do that ?
>
> Also, what would be the role of the Council in this ?
>
> --
> anidel
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