It does seems a little big. Why not jettison mini-confs, but have the venue available the day before for people to run their own OpenSpace/Barcamp type conferences?<div><br></div><div>Some elements of Open Day could even seep back into this if you made the whole (or part) free entry.</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>Just a crazy idea that popped into my head - that often happens..... :)</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Chris Neugebauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisjrn@gmail.com" target="_blank">chrisjrn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:27 PM, James Polley <<a href="mailto:jamezpolley@gmail.com">jamezpolley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> The Council is extremely interested in getting feedback from you, the<br>
> community, about what this means for LCA2014.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I'll moot a few thoughts here, but note that because I am already<br>
committed to running PyCon Australia in August or September 2013, my<br>
ability to lead a bid team for Hobart is severely restricted, as would<br>
be any interest for people who traditionally attend both PyCon AU.<br>
<br>
Is LCA too big? At the moment, LCA is a week-long conference,<br>
featuring three days of organised events, plus two days of miniconfs<br>
(which end up being more work than they originally appear to be).<br>
<br>
Could we perhaps scale back the scope of LCA -- for instance, do we<br>
need a PDNS? Open Day is something that has rightly been jettisoned<br>
as of LCA2012 - is there more cruft that we can get rid of here?<br>
<br>
Are we running too many streams? Dealing with a 5-stream conference is<br>
much more work than dealing with a four-stream conference at most<br>
venues I'm familiar with.<br>
<br>
Are miniconfs the right model for the first two days of the conference?<br>
<br>
Could we gain from reducing the amount of work that's needed to fill<br>
miniconf content at the start of the week?<br>
<br>
<br>
***<br>
<br>
I think making LCA a smaller conference is something in the long-term<br>
interests of the conference -- as James said, we've got plenty of<br>
special interest conferences that will reduce the audience of LCA, or<br>
at least keep it steady... But the scope of LCA does seem to be<br>
leading to burnout and is reducing interest in bidding for the<br>
conference. I think this is something that can be improved upon.<br>
<br>
<br>
I'm happy to work with council on expanding and implementing these<br>
ideas, but at the moment I'm in no position to run another conference,<br>
for the reasons described above.<br>
<br>
So, what else do people think?<br>
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