The Website for FSCons this year is updated and up now ::: https://fscons.org/2016/
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Luna Jernberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Stian Rødven Eide <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 6:32 AM > Subject: On the tenth and ultimate FSCONS > To: [email protected], FSCONS organizers <[email protected]> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear friends and participants of FSCONS, > > As we have entered 2016, the next FSCONS will be the tenth one. This > obviously necessitates a celebration, to make FSCONS 2016 a very > special event. > > However, at the same time the core organisers have experienced a high > workload. Too many things are still being done by too few people, and > our efforts to bring more people into the fold have not been as > successful as we had hoped. > > Therefore, the board's proposal to the Yearly Meeting of Föreningen > FSCONS is that FSCONS 2016 should not only be a celebration of the > conference's 10th anniversary, but also the very last one. We propose > to make FSCONS 2016 a worthy ending to a great conference. > > To reduce the workload for the conference, we also propose that we > simplify the organising greatly. The simplest way of accomplishing > this is to find a place where many of the troubling aspects are fixed > for us, such as conference centre, preferably one that lies in the > rural areas close to Gothenburg and includes accommodation for all > participants. > > This implies a few things. Firstly, the cost for each participant will > be somewhat higher than it has been, essentially assuming cost price, > as we do not wish to rely on sponsors. On the upside, food and > accommodation will be included in the price. Secondly, we will have to > reduce the number of participants, tracks and speakers. While we want > to leave the exact number open to suggestions from both the public and > the Yearly Meeting, we think that we reasonably could aim for fifty to > a hundred participants, of whom ten or twelve are speakers and not > really have any named tracks. As we have had many fantastic speakers > during our ten years, we propose to invite some of our favourites from > past conferences, and thus make FSCONS 2016 a somewhat retrospective > event. > > If FSCONS is to continue as a yearly conference beyond 2016, we would > like to see more people coming forward and being willing to take on > responsibilities in the association. As FSCONS is run by a registered, > democratic organisation, this would have to happen before the Yearly > Meeting, which most likely would take place in April. In any case, we > would appreciate feedback on this proposal from anyone who has > participated in FSCONS in the past. Feedback should preferably go to > the FSCONS organisers' list [email protected] > > With hopes of a splendid celebration, > The FSCONS Board > Andreas, Leif-Jöran and Stian > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlbKnV8ACgkQs757iZfan6fHyQCfUhSpk1PEtUxDUetasjYm++af > UIYAn3rQcxtB4uUhvIYy0h3YRU+ttcpL > =BtGV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > To unsubscribe from this list, click here: https://lists.fripost.org/ > fscons.org/sympa/auto_signoff/announces/bittin%40reimu.nl > >
