From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7536913838B for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2014 12:24:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 106DEE0A8B; Mon, 6 Oct 2014 12:24:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EF263E0A5B; Mon, 6 Oct 2014 12:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oi0-f49.google.com (mail-oi0-f49.google.com [209.85.218.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: scarabeus) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DC5C5340297; Mon, 6 Oct 2014 12:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oi0-f49.google.com with SMTP id a3so666738oib.36 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 05:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.94.208 with SMTP id de16mr26844227oeb.0.1412598236876; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 05:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.151.72 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Oct 2014 05:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:23:56 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-project] Gentoo miniconf postmortem From: =?UTF-8?B?VG9tw6HFoSBDaHbDoXRhbA==?= To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-core@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e0116009c1e98990504c028ea X-Archives-Salt: 5f58b694-91e7-4c64-af7b-7c1611dee7f8 X-Archives-Hash: fd25f12b856af4ccfc81b044f09601c2 --089e0116009c1e98990504c028ea Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello guys, First I would like to say big thank you to Amy (amynka) for prodding and nudging people and working on the booth. Next in line is Christopher (chithead) whom also handled our booth and even brought with him fancy mips machine and monitor all the way from Berlin. Kudos for that :) And last I want to commend all the people giving the talks during the day. In the end we did bit Q&A with users, which was short so rest I spent asking how we should do the miniconf and what would be desired. So first lets take look on what we had and what we can do there to make it even cooler for next time: 1) Booth: Place where we share/sell SWAG chat with community: People stopped by, took some stickers here and there and watched the mips boxie we had there. I have to admit that I screwed up with our materials a bit and we didn't have much on the stand. I thought we have more leftover stickers/brochures, but we had just few and super plan to get Gentoo t-shirts failed me miserably... :( Future posibilites: Someone from Gentoo ev. could arrive too and actually sell some stuff like cups/tshirts as we seem unable to get something working here in Czech republic. With that we would have really pretty booth :) People were quite interested in our merchandise and are even willing to buy it. 2) Track: We had one day of talks, and basically everything went smoothly and videos will be available in near future on youtube. I will try to remember to post link here as reply when it is done (if it is not here in a week, prod me on irc because that means I forgot). Future: We should make the thing 2 days, so it is worth for people to go to Prague, for one day I guess it is not that motivating. We should start looking for talks sooner than couple of months in advance so people can plan for it. 3) Overall state/possibilities: First here are photos: http://www.root.cz/galerie/linuxdays-2014-sobota/ http://www.root.cz/galerie/linuxdays-2014-nedele/ Linuxdays people are more than happy to provide us with the room if we have the content. Most of the people attending to the conference speak english, so even tho quite parts of the tracks are czech, we can talk with the people around. We could do it yearly/bi-yearly, my take would be to create 2 days miniconf each two year, so next one could be done 2016 unless of course you want it next year again and tell me right now :) Cheers Tom PS: I am sending this to core ml too as some devs are not on project ML and I want all devs to see this --089e0116009c1e98990504c028ea Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello guys,

First I would like to say b= ig thank you to Amy (amynka) for prodding and nudging people and working on= the booth.

Next in line is Christopher (chithead)= whom also handled our booth and even brought with him fancy mips machine a= nd monitor all the way from Berlin. Kudos for that :)

And last I want to commend all the people giving the talks during t= he day.

In the end we did bit Q&A with use= rs, which was short so rest I spent asking how we should do the miniconf an= d what would be desired.

So first lets take look o= n what we had and what we can do there to make it even cooler for next time= :

1) Booth:
Place where we share/sell SW= AG chat with community:

People stopped by, took so= me stickers here and there and watched the mips boxie we had there.

I have to admit that I screwed up with our materials a bi= t and we didn't have much on the stand. I thought we have more leftover= stickers/brochures, but we had just few and super plan to get Gentoo t-shi= rts failed me miserably... :(

Future posibilit= es:

Someone from Gentoo ev. could arrive too and a= ctually sell some stuff like cups/tshirts as we seem unable to get somethin= g working here in Czech republic. With that we would have really pretty boo= th :)

People were quite interested in our merchand= ise and are even willing to buy it.

2) Track:

We had one day of talks, and basically everything went= smoothly and videos will be available in near future on youtube. I will tr= y to remember to post link here as reply when it is done (if it is not here= in a week, prod me on irc because that means I forgot).

Future:

We should make the thing 2 days, so= it is worth for people to go to Prague, for one day I guess it is not that= motivating.

We should start looking for talks soo= ner than couple of months in advance so people can plan for it.
<= br>
3) Overall state/possibilities:

Firs= t here are photos:
http://www.root.cz/galerie/linuxdays-2014-sobota/
http://www.root= .cz/galerie/linuxdays-2014-nedele/

Linuxda= ys people are more than happy to provide us with the room if we have the co= ntent.

Most of the people attending to the confere= nce speak english, so even tho quite parts of the tracks are czech, we can = talk with the people around.

We could do it yearly= /bi-yearly, my take would be to create 2 days miniconf each two year, so ne= xt one could be done 2016 unless of course you want it next year again and = tell me right now :)

Cheers

Tom

PS: I am sending this to core ml too as som= e devs are not on project ML and I want all devs to see this
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