<p>> berlin was strangely lacking in the latter.</p>
<p>I've heard rumours that Community Council Member lardman will take care of this for 2009.</p>
<p>Tim</p>
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<p>On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:24:26 +0000, gary liquid <liquid@gmail.com> wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010ff; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; width: 100%;">key dependencies to any summit:<br /><br />plenty of beer, wifi, power-outlets and bacon.<br /><br />berlin was strangely lacking in the latter.<br /><br />would like to have a smaller less formal meetup within the country fairly soon to discuss development.<br /> <br />gary<br /><br /><br /><br />
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo <span><<a href="mailto:anidel@gmail.com">anidel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2009/2/9 Andrea Grandi <<a href="mailto:a.grandi@gmail.com">a.grandi@gmail.com</a>>:<br />
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Hi all,<br /> ><br /> > talking with Tim Samoff in these days, we did think it could be the<br /> > time to start organizing next Maemo Summit.<br /> > The first one was a very amazing experience (at least for me, but I<br /> > think for a lot of people too!) and we should try to repeat this great<br /> > thing.<br /> ><br /> > I wrote down some points we could follow as guidelines to organize the summit:<br /> ><br /> > 1. Country and city<br /> ><br /> > Where is the Maemo community located? I mean: where do the most of<br /> > people come from? Are there more american or european? I think this is<br /> > an important factor to evaluate when they have to choose where to<br /> > organize the summit.<br /> ><br /> > If there are 80% european and 20% american, it's normal to organize it<br /> > here in Europe, so the most of people can come buy them self and the<br /> > other can be sponsored by Nokia. Of course we should choose a city<br /> > easily reachable with flights (like a capital or a big city:<br /> > barcelona, madrid, berlin, london, ecc....).<br /> ><br /> > We could prepare a simple poll or a form to get some tips and<br /> > suggestion from the people that wish to attend.<br /> ><br /> <br /></div>
The where depends on a number of factors.<br /> I wouldn't go for which country has got more attendees.<br /> This would work once, but then ?<br /> <br /> We should probably just "rotate".<br /> Let's come up with a list of possible candidates and then we choose<br /> how to rotate ?<br />
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br /> > 2. The place<br /> ><br /> > I think it's important to find a place like C-base for the next Maemo<br /> > summit. We are an open community and a place like that is very<br /> > comfortable and interesting for us geeks, developers and Maemo fans.<br /> ><br /> > We could take contacts with local Linux user groups or other similar<br /> > groups, so we could know how much they're interested in offering their<br /> > place for the summit.<br /> ><br /> > I'll try as much as possible to avoid places like hotels, luxurious<br /> > conference rooms ecc... first because they're very expensive, second<br /> > because they're not the kind of place that remind to community and<br /> > openness. What do you think about?<br /> ><br /> <br /></div>
This of course depends from the place we choose as venue.<br />
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br /> > 3. Contents<br /> ><br /> > What should a summit offer to community? We should encourage knowledge<br /> > exchange in every kind of way: organizing small conferences and a lot<br /> > of light talks (they were one of the most interesting things in the<br /> > summit), create little groups of discussion (for example, 10-15 people<br /> > choose a subject and meet in a room to discuss it directly) ecc... and<br /> > the most important thing: we should ask the community what they expect<br /> > to find in a summit.<br /> ><br /> <br /></div>
We should first find out a venue, then who is going to contribute and with what.<br /> Then organize the talks/discussions/etc..<br />
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br /> > 4. Sponsor<br /> ><br /> > The fact that Nokia sponsor some of us is a very great thing. I'd<br /> > never had the possibility to join the Berlin summit, since I'm a<br /> > student and I cannot spend so much.<br /> ><br /> > The important is to avoid wasting money. Nokia should<br /> > encourage sharing a room with another person of the community, so more<br /> > people can be sponsored. What do you think about?<br /> ><br /> <br /></div>
Is Nokia going to sponsor again ?<br />
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br /> > 5. When?<br /> ><br /> > When should we organize the summit? Before a big release (like<br /> > Freemantle), just after the final release or after some months of<br /> > development with it? I don't remember exactly when the final release of<br /> > Freemantle is scheduled for, but I think that next September would be<br /> > a nice period... what do you think about?<br /> ><br /> <br /></div>
As Fremantle is a big release, I suspect the Maemo team will be very<br /> busy with this release.<br /> This depends, thus, on them.<br /> I would go for right after the Fremantle release.<br /> Or, if Nokia would like to use the Maemo Summit as the place for the<br /> announcement, that would be a great time.<br />
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br /> > When we have some confirmed points we should start creating a page on<br /> > the wiki: <a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2009" target="_blank">http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2009</a><br /> > so all people can read and give suggestions.<br /> ><br /> <br /></div>
Probably we should already do that ?<br /> <br /> Also, what would be the role of the Council in this ?<br /> <span style="color: #888888;"><br /> --<br /> anidel<br /> </span>
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