Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC & LUGRadio

[Paul Cooper <pgc openadvantage org>]

----- Quim Gil <qgil gnome org> wrote:
> LugRadio Live is going to happen one week before GUADEC, 18 miles
> away
> from Birmingham. How the GUADEC organizers see this?

Well at a high level the two conferences are quite different. LUGRadioLive is more like FOSDEM (it's not really *like* anything but you know what I mean). The range of topics they covered last year went from building a MAME cabinet, RoR, package formats, openstreetmap, 'open source' comic strips, and an analysis of the fequency of swear words in LUGRadio, i.e. the most broad range of topics you might find in a LUG meeting.

So I'm not that concerned about attracting papers - given the broad range of topics I would guess there would only be a small amount of potential space for Guadec type topics (I hope some Gnome related stuff is submitted there and I plan to help man the Gnome booth like last year).

I'm not that concerned about punters - the two complement each other and just make July more Free software friendly. LRL is at the weekend, our core days are Tue, Wed, Thur, so I don't think LRL will force people to choose which days to take off work.

My only slight concern is supply of volunteers - the LUGRadio guys are the masters of community and typically have a excellent enthusiatic crew. However having said that the interests of the volunteers is as broad as LRL but bound together by the LUGRadio community (so possibly wouldn't have helped at Guadec anyway).

We'll just have to wait and see - there isn't a lot we can do about it, neither of us can change plans now. From our planning meeting at the weekend it seems the initial flow of papers was quite good. Sponsors are starting to commit. It's going well.

Also there are oppurtunities for marketing - I've talked to Jono about doing a slot on the podcast to promote Guadec, once we open registration. I've also talked to them (briefly) about doing podcasts through Guadec, but I plan to work them harder than you did last year ;-) Plus, we'll have a Gnome booth, hopefully posters and flyers and I'll try and grab some stage time.

Are the any particular concerns you had?

Paul

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