Heya,
There was some discussion of this last year :)Yeah, I remembered we had it, but wasn't sure where it went. Did we get a wiki page up? My thinking is that we could have a general list of conferences that happen every year, and then a list (either same place or separate) listing what the date of the next known one is, whether or not we've contacted the organizer, what speakers we have there, etc., etc.
Okay, found a mail that might help that was in my board-list archives.
Here's a cut and paste of the mail from Malcolm -
Glynn
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This involves a number of steps and I have made a start on a couple of
these:
(1) Knowing which conferences are coming up in each area of the world
and when their paper submission dates are.
- attached to this mail is the start of such a list (ordered by
conference date. I need to make a similar list ordered by
submission date). Naturally, as you can see, a number of
submission dates have already passed by. In such cases, I have
listed if there are any GNOME related talks being given.
- I have concentrated on desktop-, consumer- and
developer-related conferences. There are other conferences at
which GNOME talks have been given (e.g. Daniel Veillard's
presentation at XML Europe last year) but which are more of a
niche market and which require particular speakers to give
effective talks.
- This list is far from complete. Can people send me any other
conferences they know about (including submission deadlines
and/or a website so I can scrounge out the info and monitor
things). In particular, I have nothing for any South American
countries and nothing for Spain, although both areas had
conferences last year, if I recall correctly. I suspect there
are a couple of British (particularly London-based) conferences
that I have missed. I am also not going to be surprised if I
have missed a number of significant European and North American
summer conferences.
- In 2004, we need to also be looking at 2005 conferences.
Submission deadlines are months in advance of the conference, so
by around mid-2004 we (the entire GNOME community) are going to
have to have got our act together for conferences in the first
couple of months of 2005.
(2) Contacting GNOME volunteers and user groups in the appropriate areas
to see if they can help out with demonstration stands and giving talks,
etc.
(3) Preparing a kit to help kickstart such demonstrations.
- There have been posts to various mailing lists over the past
few years about what people have learnt when helping out at a
GNOME stand at conferences. I am trying to track down all of
those.
- We need to have something like a HOWTO available for people
who want to do this kind of stuff. Possible also a HOWTO for
somebody wanting to give a talk about GNOME to the general
population. Sometimes it is just a matter of giving people ideas
of what they can talk about and convincing them that it is not
such a big job, since the people they are talking to may know
very little about GNOME.
(4) Complete this list. Currently it only contains three significant
points. There are probably more.
See attached -
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