Margarita Manterola dijo [Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:41:39PM -0300]: > 1) Do *NOT* do it at the end of DebConf. This was a BIG mistake on > our side, we were too tired to do things properly, and it took away > one resting day for us. > > 2) Do *NOT* do it at a different venue. DebianDay was not recorded > because it was too much effort to setup everything again there.
Of course, this is the first time it's done at the end and somewhere else - but it made sense, after all. There are way more potentially interested people in Buenos Aires than in Mar del Plata; I guess that holding DebianDay at Mar del Plata at the beginning of DebcConf would not have attracted even a third of the attendance we got. Maybe something that could be pondered, if we ever get conditions similar to this years' (i.e. having JRSL, a major local general Free Software conference, starting one day after DebianDay), it would be even better to merge DebianDay into the other conference, as a series of talks taking over one of their days. I think most conference organizers would be most delighted to have it so! > 3) Before deciding anything, think if it's really worth it. We don' t > seem to be able to attract the "Decision Makers" that we state that > come to DebianDay. Only Debian users, and not many of them. I also think that holding DebianDay as part of a bigger conference, just taking advantage of the number of debianers around there, would be even better. OTOH, maybe the name is not very well chosen - DebianDay sounds interesting if Debian is interesting to you. But we want to attract more people for whom we are not yet interesting enough! Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
