Re: [OSCOM] volunteers?
Michael Wechner <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.cms.oscom |
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Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote: > Michael Wechner wrote: > >>> oscom got started by drinking beers together, >> >> >> OSCOM was not really started by drinking beer together. >> >> Just to get the facts right: >> OSCOM was started by Eric and myself, thinking it would be a good idea >> to have a conference on FOSS content management systems. After the >> very first >> conference in Zurich which Eric and I organized alone, Eric and I >> went snowboarding to Engelberg and on our way back on the train to >> Zurich, we wrote down a list on things to do to keep going (one item >> was the CMS matrix). >> >> At the station we met by coincidence Gregor and Henri and we told >> them our ideas. >> By this Gregor and Henri become involved. After a short period of time >> Paul and Roger Fischer (Christian's ex-partner) also became involved. > > > i was referring to OSCOM the organization, which only formed because > competitors came together, drank beers, and found that they had common > interests. how would you know? Anyway I will stop on this, I just wanted to make sure that history is described right. > >>> oscom4 was a failure. >> >> >> why was it a failure? Just because not that many people showed up as one >> would have expected? IIRC money wise it was break-even. > > > it had minimal organization, not enough lead time to allow people to > factor it into their plans, minimal exposure, was too expensive for > what it offered, the talks were not held together by a strong program > committee. half the tracks were not even about CMS, but about generic > apache technologies. you might remember the conference was called OSCOM with Apache Track in order to get people talk to each other, which happened IIRC. > the hoped-for synergies with apache(at the time there had not been an > apache conference in europe for many years) were not realized, mostly > because the necessary marketing was not in place. how do you know that no synergies started? > overall, a bland conference that failed to live up to what we showed > is possible at oscom3. so, try to do another good conference as OSCOM 3 > >> Did you also read the positive part of the sentence above? > > > yes > excellent Michi -- Michael Wechner Wyona - Open Source Content Management - Apache Lenya http://www.wyona.com http://lenya.apache.org [email protected] [email protected]