[Gllug] No Expo this year

[Dan Kolb]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 04:49:24PM +0100, Steven Goodwin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 03:59:48PM +0100, Sean Tohill wrote:
> > 
> > there is no reason why we couldn't organise an event here over a weekend. 
> > i could book several rooms, scatter vendors/companies about and have 
> > various streams going on in different rooms/lecture theatres (pubs?).
> 
> I like the stream idea. If you can quantify what those should be
> effectively (e.g. sysadmin, programming, multimedia) then one person can
> take charge of each room, and focus on speakers/projects for it. With
> minimal cross-over, hopefully.

Are we essentially suggesting a FOSDEM-a-like, but with with more emphasis on
the user/admin, rather than the developer?

> > the problem would be the organisation, which would require several people.
> 
> Agreed. And if you want to a substitute for this years expo, there's
> probably no time to do everything we want. So, do we try to arrange a 
> version 1 this year? Or wait for a bigger bang next?

If we can get enough people helping to organise, this could work. The trouble,
of course, is getting people to help organise. The venue is the least trouble,
really.

Dan
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