Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Ana Guerrero Lopez <a...@debian.org> wrote: > In the website in important dates, it says that the 15-16 August is the > "opening weekened (geared to the public") and those appears also as DebConf > days. It seems like this has been decided already. Before jumping to > conclusions, > could you please explain what does this exactly mean?
This is something that has been mentioned several times in several different meetings, although it might be that it was not discussed on-list up to now. It is inspired on the DebianDay event that has taken place several times in the past (although not in DC14 nor DC13), but with a twist. The Open Weekend is part of DebConf, but given geographical proximity to other cities, we figured that quite a lot more people would choose to attend on that weekend alone. This includes particularly people that are not as involved in Debian as the usual Debian contributors, who will be interested enough to spend the weekend but not the whole week. Taking this into account, the idea was to schedule a broader set of events on that weekend (which also includes Debian's birthday) and invite the general public to join us. Broader events does not mean introductory level talks (i.e. the typical DebianDay schedule), but rather things like the keynotes that we had this year, the DPL report, talks about cross-project affecting tools, lightning talks, workshops/tutorials, keysigning, etc. The goal would be to select the talks that are more suitable to a broader audience and schedule them during that weekend, whereas more specific/internal talks (like team BOFs for example) would be scheduled during the week. This shouldn't influence talk selection at all, just scheduling. For the sake of completion, I must say that in parallel with the official talks, there was some interest in having some introductory level workshops, but this has not been agreed, and personally I'm not sure if we actually want it, and if we do which format it should take. -- Besos, Marga _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
