I think it's a great idea to have a GNU Radio conference and I'll do my best to be there. Personally, I also prefer an agenda with a good mixture of presentations and active sessions (tutorial/workshop/hacking), like the one proposed by Tom. September is fine and both weekdays and weekend are good.
Alex On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Tom Rondeau <trondeau1...@gmail.com> 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
