On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Andreas Rogge wrote: > I don't have any idea if a devroom is a good idea or not. However, I feel > that running a devroom and especially doing discussion there is a general > issue on every event. > People want to attend presentations, they should take part in discussion and > somebody has to man the booth. > So what I'd suggest is that we do not have any "official" CentOS discussion > during the day, so we still have enough people to man the booth even when > someone wants to attend a presentation. I think I agree :) > The downside is that we'd have to do the discussion in the morning or in the > evening. As I don't like to get up even earlier (I guess most people will > agree) we'd have to do the discussion in the evening. > For most events that means the devrooms are closed (because the whole event > site is closed) and usually people are hungry and want to go to dinner. > > So I guess the best way to run a working discussion (i.e. one where everybody > can attend and nobody is waiting for food) would be in the evening during and > after dinner. This would require a bit more organization concerning the > dinner, because whoever organizes the dinner would have to make sure that the > enviroment is discussion-friendly. > > What would be required imo are quiet surroundings (i.e. not dozens of > uninvolved people talking in the background), a table where everyone can see > everybody's face (possibly a round table) and of course the optional, but > highly recommended WiFi. > I think it should be possible to find a place offering all that near every > event site as long as we have someone living near there who can organize the > event. > After all, that means we'd have to find someone who organizes the evening > event(s) ahead of time, but I think that should be doable. I agree we should consider FrOSCon an event for users and potential users, and keep an internal meeting seperate and at a different time/location ? And maybe we should consider doing the same for FOSDEM in the future. Thanks for the offer ! Let's see how many CentOS people are interested to come ? PS Are you interested in organising the booth ? Since it is close to where you live and you speak German there is less confusion ? If not I will do best-effort like last year :-) -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]