Re: [OSCOM] Experience from organzing OSCOM 1-4

On Feb 11, 2005, at 1:08 AM, Michael Wechner wrote:

> 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]).

Good notes, MIchael.  I wrote up some points for folks proposing to 
host a Plone conference:

   http://plone.org/events/conferences/guidelines

--Paul