On Tuesday 01 March 2005 08:11, Michael Still wrote:
Anand Kumria wrote:
Note anything more than $0 is too much.
Perhaps. How do you fund an event without having any money though?
Sponsors. But I think $0 would be a mistake. If you just wanted as many people as possible, sure, but attendees won't take it seriously if it's free. Maybe $50 a day, $20 a day for concessions as a floor?
Actually there are now people in all cities of Australia who know how to run an LCA-style event. There are people in all cities of Australia who know how to run a LUG-style event.
Yes. None of them have made a proposal for such an event though. If one of them would like to do so, then that would be fine.
PLUG is getting fairly excited about the idea. I'll get a new list made for the purpose and see if anything eventuates.
If you would like to, that would be nice.
LCA caters, to a degree, to introductory programmers. Davyd Madeley, for example, was exposed to Jeff Waugh at one of the previous LCAs and now contributes regularly to GNOME.
Absolutely. I was more thinking of Windows-centric ISV / bespoke programmers wanting to port their worlds to Linux / open source however.
As was I. And businesses looking for a little low-risk training to reduce their fear of taking a leap of faith.
Yes. And people wanting to do the low risk training off their own bat.
Perhaps. The idea behind the proposal was that small is beautiful. The event can get more complex over time. Compare the complexity of LCA 2001 with that of LCA 2005.
The trombones, the marching girls, the fireworks, the airships... (-:
Mikal
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Linux.conf.au 2005 -- Quite like an excellent Linux and Open Source conference. http://lca2005.linux.org.au