[H-GEN] How to make OSDC 2009 Awesome

[Mark Ellem]

Hi Stephen,

On 4/6/09 10:09 AM, Stephen Thorne wrote:
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> G'day,
>
> There's lots of talk about LCA'11 on the list at the moment.
>
> I'm after ways to make the conference that I'm running in November, Open
> Source Developers Conference, More Awesome.
>
> The only thing I can think of is to yell, 'Good Morning Freedom Lovers'
> before each of the keynotes.

Oh goodness, please no :P I'd say one thing to keep doing more of is 
Lightning Talks. You can never have enough of those :)

> Can you give me any more ideas on how to make it a good conference?
>

HUMBUG would love to help (and possibly even sponsor) OSDC 2009, just 
like we did in 2007. This means things along the lines of lending out 
equipment, helping with volunteers, the running of the conference and 
maybe even a small financial contribution.

Unfortunately, HUMBUG has not been formally approached by the OSDC 2009 
organisers yet, as we were in 2007. I take this as maybe an oversight? 
That said, I would like to formally offer the OSDC 2009 organisers any 
help required.

Mark Ellem.
Vice President, HUMBUG.