[H-GEN] How to make OSDC 2009 Awesome

Stephen Thorne stephen at thorne.id.au
Sun Jun 7 20:28:00 EDT 2009


On 2009-06-04, Mark Ellem wrote:
> On 4/6/09 10:09 AM, Stephen Thorne wrote:
>> 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 :)

More lightning talks. We're currently planning to have them every day. I
hope that's enough.

>> 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.

Okay, thanks!

I'm leading the committee for OSDC'09, so I'll accept that gladly. I'll
send along sponsorship detials to the humbug exec at some point this
week too.

-- 
Regards,
Stephen Thorne
Development Engineer
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