On Saturday 08 November 2008 08:19:37 Craig Bradney wrote: > On Saturday 08 November 2008 05:52:35 Jon Phillips wrote: > > I think we should compress the conference into 2 days. Four days is > > soooo long. And I think the weekend dates are by far the best as its > > hard for people to get time off. > > > > I really don't think more than 2 days is productive time use. > > > > We could do 2 days of conf. and then 1 day unconference work, > > collaboration time. That would be great for this year... > > What we find is trying to fit development time in is hard (ie, getting > those heads together once a year and then conflicting with presentations). > This is one of the biggest uses of the LGM period the Scribus team has, and > its done, at this point, only once per year. > > I think it should be officially 3-4 days still, but have mornings or > afternoons or 1-2 days for just development within or between teams. If it > happens that we have enough talks to fill more time, then there are surely > some talks purely for end-users that could be scheduled appropriately where > only one team member would have to go to. > > The FOSS movement in Montreal and the following that LGM and other > organisations have there is pretty strong so we should have some time for > those people to get a lot out of it too. > > The time period 6-10 May is ok for me, whatever is chosen.
One other thing to note is that for those who might be lucky enough to be sponsored by business as a work activity, or for real sponsors putting money into LGM, their preferred "real" conference days may actually be weekdays. I know we had that comment from some for LGM 2 in Montreal. Craig
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