Re: MCing lightning talks

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

A mailing list is always the best place for this stuff. Has this all
been resolved now?

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 22:26 +0200, David Neary wrote:
> Hi Nat,
> 
> Nat Friedman wrote:
> > One other question.  I want to organize a hackfest at guadec around
> > Matthew Thomas's awesome UI feedback.  How can I do that?  Where can we
> > find space for the hackfest?  I know nothing about the current guadec
> > plans.  When would be a good time for this?
> 
> There will be a hackcenter, but I really have not had anything to do 
> with infrastructure so far. Murray Cumming (CCed) would be a good man to 
> ask.
> 
> I suggest doing it Sunday or Tuesday. Monday might be good, but I have 
> high hopes that if we don't plan anything that people will organise 
> themselves (your proposition could be considered self-organisation, of 
> course). Pick a time period when you think that most of the interested 
> parties won't be doing presentations or particularly interested in 
> attending them. Consider hang-overs Tuesday morning.
> 
> > Also, if we do a hackfest, I want to provide special incentive for
> > hackers to come and solve problems, so I will provide prizes.  But I
> > also want to cater the event.  Do you have any pointers as to how to do
> > that in Stuttgart?
> 
> You want to cater the event? Cater how? I have no idea how we can 
> facilitate prize-giving, although I think Tim might have some ideas. I 
> know he's eager to get Novell on board as a sponsor. He's added as a CC too.
> 
> See you there,
> Dave.
> 
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