Re: [Orgmode] Re: FLOSS Weekly show about Org-mode

[Carsten Dominik]

On Sep 27, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Christian Egli wrote:

> Bastien <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Jeff Horn <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > I wanted to mention how great it would be to have an org-mode
> > > conference.
>
> > If many people support this idea, this is how we could do it:
> >
> > 1. list ideas of things we would do there
>
> Meet and talk about org-mode :-)
>
> > 2. find out what would be the best location/date
>
> We could probably get a developer room at next years FOSDEM[1]. They
> provide rooms where projects can organize their own schedule, made of
> presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. You have to  
> apply[2]
> for such a developer room as they always receive more requests than
> they can host.
>
> Also of course Carsten would make for a good main track speaker[3].
>
> > 3. figure out how much money does it requires
>
> I don't know the details but I could imagine that this would not  
> require
> any money.
>
> > 4. decide (or not) to go for it
>
> Write the application and see if they'll give you a room :-). If there
> is a room I'll come and do a presentation :-).


So - who will take the lead and write the application?  We'd
have to act soon.  Can we also have a show of hands how many people
would seriously consider to come to such a meeting?

Hmm, I'll make a separate thread for this.

- Carsten

> Thanks
> Christian
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://www.fosdem.org/2011/
> [2]  http://www.fosdem.org/2011/call_for_devrooms
> [3]  http://www.fosdem.org/2011/call_for_main_speakers
>
> --
> Christian Egli
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>
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