[Linux-aus] linux.conf.au Possible *Future* Programme Format

[David Lloyd]

Steven,

> There could be some advantages to clashing with the main confeerence, One I
> see immediately is allowing the main conference to go for longer (5 days, 3
> streams), if there are two mini confs on at the same time at the conference
> all week it is like having 5 streams but with two of them being miniconfs.

I guess this begs the question:

  * Was there a reason for the conference to go for 3 1/2 days?
  * If one extends the conference to a whole week, how would that:
    - affect pricing
    - affect scheduling
    - affect staffing requirements (where staff may be volunteers but you
      know what I mean)
  * Is a main conference of 5 days and coordination of, say, 8
    mini-confs, a bit much to ask a volunteer organisation to run?

Once the conference gets bigger, it starts to become more realistic and 
economically viable to have "someone paid" to help run it yet LCA 
advertises itself as a grassroots conference.

When does the conference become "so large" that it stops being "grassroots"?

DSL