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 dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anidel@gmail.com">anidel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); 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>
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