On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Ben Hilburn <bhilb...@vt.edu> wrote: > A GNU Radio conference is an awesome idea, in my opinion, and I think > the September time-frame is a good one. > > I like points 1-5 a lot, and I'll second your idea of some sort of > hacking session. I've heard of companies/communities holding > 'hack-a-thons', where a large group of developers marathons for 6-8 > hours to close as many tickets as possible / add new features / etc. > If there are sponsors of any type, you could hold occasional drawings, > provide caffeine, food, etc., to keep the devs going. > > If we are going to have that many developers in one place, it might be > a fun way to make a lot of progress on GNU Radio very quickly. Just a > thought =) > > Cheers, > Ben
Thanks, Ben. Yes, we will try to make sure there is room and time set aside for people to hack. I too have known various businesses who have had very good luck (in terms of product output and improved morale) with hack-a-thons. I don't think this is going to be the focus of the conference, though. Then again, depending on space availability, we might try to keep a room for an extra day for people to stick around and work on some projects together. I'll keep that in mind. Tom > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Tom Rondeau <trondeau1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Scott Johnston >> <scott.johns...@ll.mit.edu> wrote: >>> Tom, >>> >>> Can you give a brief sample agenda for the conference? I just want to know >>> if this is intended to be a forum where all the contributers talk about GNU >>> Radio or is it going to be tutorials and demos? If it is the latter I would >>> be interested in attending. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Scott >> >> >> Excellent question, thanks! Nothing certain right now, but I imagine >> there is going to be a bit of a mix of both. I imagine these will be a >> few of the tracks that we will have: >> >> 1. Introduction and Tutorial to GNU Radio >> 2. Applications - paper session on how people are using GNU Radio >> 3. Hardware for SDR - come show your wares. >> 4. An open spaces session - open discussions about what people want >> from GNU Radio and what projects people might want to purseu >> 5. Advanced GNU Radio - discussion and showing some advanced features >> >> Anything that I might call a "paper session" is just the standard >> wording from other conferences; I don't expect people to submit papers >> and we will definitely not have a proceedings or anything (for this >> one, at least). These are just presentations, and hands-on / live >> demos should be encouraged. >> >> We might also try to set aside some room and time for hacking. Maybe >> get some like-minded people together to start a new project or >> application while we're all there. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Tom >> >> >>> Tom Rondeau wrote: >>>> >>>> I want to have a separate thread for discussing the GNU Radio >>>> conference details. Here is what we have so far: >>>> >>>> When: Sometime in September, 2011 >>>> Where: Philadelphia, PA, USA – probably on the University of Pennsylvania >>>> campus >>>> How long: 2.5 – 3 days >>>> >>>> The first thing I would like to do is nail down the exact dates. There >>>> are two ways we can go with this, and I'm polling the community here >>>> to try to figure it out. We can either hold the conference during the >>>> week or over a weekend. The weekend would look like (probably): Friday >>>> afternoon, all day Saturday and Sunday. If we held it during the week, >>>> I was thinking something like: all day Wednesday and Thursday and >>>> Friday morning. >>>> >>>> There are certain people who will find either time better than the >>>> other depending on your work/life situations. So we want to make sure >>>> that this happens during the most convenient time for the most amount >>>> of people. Once we figure this out, I will work on securing a location >>>> to host the event. A show of hands for how many people think they can >>>> attend would also help me determine what size we need to account for. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Tom >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >>>> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >>>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Scott Johnston >>> MIT Lincoln Laboratory >>> 244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA 02420-9108 >>> (781) 981-8196 >>> scott.johns...@ll.mit.edu >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >> > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
