Re: las-gnome Papers Committee: Notes of meeting #1

[Adelia Rahim <adeliarahim gmail com>]

Hi everyone,

Updates on action items please! We’re running a little behind on the call for papers which we had targeted for May 2.

I have included Meg’s update from previous email in the notes below.

best,

adelia

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Notes of Papers Committee meeting #1 (25 April 2016, 14:00 UTC)

Present:

Sri

Rob

Meg

Cosimo

Adelia

Conference schedule:

- 3 days, from Monday to Wednesday

- Close main tracks early on Wednesday around 3 pm to make way for a workshop

- Thursday to Friday for BOFs

- Other mini events to include: Lightning talks and GNOME 3.22 Release party!

Tracks:

Start with broad generic tracks, and as we receive papers may have more clarity on grouping subjects

• Plumbers style
• Intel folks: graphics power, etc
• graphics developer tools
• Platform track
• capture topics of plumbing, HW, drivers
• Distribution track
• Development track
• tools, widgets
• Ecosystem track
• business, community, social

Plenary session:

Potential speakers to invite

- Alex

- Miguel

- Valve

Call for paper:

- Slotted for May 2, 2016

- To invite speakers for each track so it’s representative

- Talks can be up to 45 minutes

- Workshop duration is 1 hour 30 minutes

Action Items:

- @Rob to write first draft of press release for call for papers by April 27th.

- @Rob to ping John Vert at Valve

- @Rob to ping mjg59 re: speaking/sponsorship

- @Rob to ping jrp at Microsoft re: speaker/event/sponsorship

- @Rob to ping Jono at GitHub re: speaking/sponsorship

- @Cosimo to approach Matt re: plenary & sponsorship

- @Cosimo to reach out to Alex re: plenary

- @Cosimo to reach out to Guy Lunardi

- @Meg to approach Asheesh/Sandstorm.io re: speaking

Tentative yes from Asheesh. Had a couple of questions;

1) Q: Exact dates A: 19-21 September 2016

2) Q: Is the invitation specifically for him or is it possible for someone else from Sandstorm speak if he isn’t available? 

- @Sri to reach out to Rob Taylor at codethink re: speaking/sponsorship

- Reach out to Miguel? (unassigned)