[OSCOM] Experience from organzing OSCOM 1-4

Dear All

It's really great to see such a great interest re OSCOM US.

Just a few notes re our experience from organizing OSCOM 1-4:

1) The OSCOM conferences have been very low budget so far and OSCOM 
doesn't have any money for taking risks re attendance or revenue

2) It was very important to have someone (or better two persons) onsite 
feeling *really* responsible for the following items:
   2.1) Organizing the location/rooms
   2.2) Organzing the infrastructure (projectors, microphones, network, 
etc.)
   2.3) Organizing the food for the coffee breaks
   2.4) Organizing hotel for the speakers
   2.5) Organizing the registration desk and the helpers
   2.6) Organizing side-events (official dinner or whatever)
   2.7) Cleaning up after the conference

3) The organizing committee should be rather small (maybe 3, but max 5)
and taking actions in the interest of OSCOM


I would suggest that the OSCOM board is making a suggestion re 
organization, location and date, which shall be based on the suggestions 
being retrieved from this mailing list ([email protected]).

Thanks

Michi

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Michael Wechner
Wyona Inc.  -   Open Source Content Management   -   Apache Lenya
http://www.wyona.com                      http://lenya.apache.org
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