You're suggesting that a weekend is too long an event?Absolutely. I was more thinking of Windows-centric ISV / bespoke programmers wanting to port their worlds to Linux / open source however.Some possibilities: * people who'd like to know if they can switch to Linux, and why they would, and get some idea how to -- they don't want to devote too much time (it's all wasted if the answer's "no they can't switch"), and aren't too fussed if it's not too in-depth.
Yeah, for sure. I see the target speaker for this event not being the kind of person who normally speaks at an LCA -- more the kind of people mentioned in the previous point.* people who're using Linux and want a chance to "give back" to the community in some valuable way, but aren't able to hack on the kernel or openoffice.org -- not sure what we might want to offer these folks, but they're probably worth considering
Yeah; speaking at a national conference is pretty hard core though.
Maybe we should try a user conference that caters variously to all the sorts of people we can think of, then get feedback on how to do it right next time -- more as a deliberate experiment, than a first actual run?Ok, I think that's implicit in anything like this though. If LCA 2005 tried something and it flopped, then we'd drop it in the future too.
I think there is recognition out there that the formula isn't cast in stone for any of these events.
Well, hey, it has only been a couple of weeks; and your proposal was so draft it had a request for "$xxx" :) There's not really much of a definite idea to have a consensus on yet.That's cause the real figure is so big it would blow your mind!
Seriously, I wasn't 100% comfortable talking about my draft numbers on a public list.
committee@linux.org.au isn't a public list...
Cheers, aj