[maemo-community] Organizing Maemo Summit 2009

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

Thank you Jose.

2009/2/10 Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente <jsmanrique at gmail.com>:
> Wiki page working: http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2009
>
> Try and edit it,
>
> 2009/2/10 Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com>:
>> Thanks Andrea for kicking this off. Right after FOSDEM, the right time
>> for it.
>>
>> Time to start consolidating info in a wiki page?
>>
>>
>> ext Andrea Grandi wrote:
>>> 5. When?
>>
>> Having September 2008 as a reference, the default candidate is September
>> 2009.
>>
>> Elements that can affect these dates:
>>
>> - Do we want to co-locate to another event? Which?
>> - Other events too close before/after?
>> - Announcements (you have to trust Maemo SW on this)
>>
>> For instance, http://debconf.org/ is on July 16-31 which is too close to
>> http://grancanariadesktopsummit.org/ July 3-11.
>>
>> Any interesting event happening in September/October? If so, let's
>> discuss. If not, let's think of good reasons for people to come.
>>
>>
>>> 1. Country and city
>>
>> Related to the above. Near to an airport cheap to fly and possibilities
>> of decent accommodation prices.
>>
>> I think this year Europe is still the default candidate to beat. There
>> seems to be a higher density of developers a good network of really
>> cheap flights giving many alternatives at a decent price and within 1-2h
>> flight range.
>>
>> USA is only one county but this doesn't mean that it is easy for the
>> developers of one coast to go to the other coast and etc.
>>
>> Another idea would be to combine a main event in Europe and in the same
>> weekend a parallel hackfest somewhere in SF and perhaps in other
>> 'satellites', with some kind of lo-fi community interaction between sites.
>>
>>
>>> 2. The place
>>
>> Depending again from the above.
>>
>> Theater school + c-base set a precedent hard to beat. We should evolve
>> from that spirit. We expect more people, which will make things more
>> complex and informal venues more difficult to find.
>>
>> It would be good to have a list of potential candidates with a local
>> support. The first maemo Summit would have been impossible without the
>> commitment of the c-base spacecraft crew.
>>
>>> 3. Contents
>>
>> Time and space for application developers + platform hackers + (very
>> important!) enthusiastic users & non-developers community contributors.
>>
>> Actually most of the growth expected comes from potential Maemo fans ,
>> (old and new) attending to a meeting where there is cool stuff for them
>> as well.
>>
>>> 4. Sponsor
>>
>> I hope to get at least the same budget we had last year in order to have
>> an open conference with free registration, key contributors invited and,
>> if possible, basic logistics and merchandising also free of charge.
>>
>> It would be good though if the community could somehow handle the budget
>> yourselves via Council or something, since this might help making and
>> (even more) efficient use of the money. It would also make things more
>> easy and flexible for booking cheap transport and accommodation, expense
>> claims, etc.
>>
>> This also would bring more paperwork to the Council or the organizers of
>> the event, but this is known business for event organizers and at the
>> end it might be worth paying some money to an accountant that will help
>> squeeze more from the same budget.
>>
>> Tero and myself have to check this though, since we can't just take the
>> money and put it in somebody's hands.
>>
>>
>>> 6. Live blogging
>>> 7. Live streaming
>>
>> Very important, but the above needs to be fixed first.
>>
>> --
>> Quim Gil
>> open source advocate
>> Maemo Software @ Nokia
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