Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting micro-conference 2023

Hi Till,

it works for me at the moment, but I will know for sure at the beginning 
of July - I'm planning to visit the UK this year and I'm not sure right 
now when (we have to buy tickets to HP museum and to football match, so 
right now we don't know which date we get).

I can attend remotely and watch the talks, pitch into the conversation 
when I can comment.


Zdenek

On 6/5/23 22:54, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this year the Linux Plumbers takes place on Nov 13-15, clashing with 
> the PWG Virtual F2F on Nov 14-16. Also the date is very late in the year.
>
> So we (Aveek and me) decided to do this year's micro-conference on a 
> different platform.
>
> The DebConf takes place in India this year, in Kochi (near the 
> southern tip of India), on Sep 10-17 (8 days, Sun-Sun), this led me to 
> the idea to travel to India this year and I suggested to Aveek to do a 
> panel with him and the GSoC contributors/mentors on the DebConf.
>
> Then we realized that India is huge and Kochi in the very South, 
> Aveek's home in the very East, and Mandi, where most of the 
> contributors study, is in the very North of India, so we cannot easily 
> meet all in Kochi.
>
> So Aveek suggested that we all should meet in Mandi (he already 
> organized such an event some years ago, with ~150 attendees) and then 
> I suggested to run a 2-day OpenPrinting conference there, with 2 
> panels (one technical, one community), talks of the contributors, also 
> Michael Sweet or others speaking remotely, a workshop of recycling old 
> printers and scanners with a Raspberry Pi, ...
>
> We came also to the conclusion to not only have sessions about 
> printing and for that to run a second track in a second room for which 
> we post a CfP.
>
> And after discussing all this we came to the conclusion why not taking 
> half a day of the OpenPrinting track and use it for the 
> micro-conference, running the micro-conference with students and 
> professors of the IIT Mandi as audience. Michael, Zdenek, Piotr, ... 
> could connect remotely while Aveek, me and the contributors are on the 
> stage.
>
> As the date we have though about the weekend of 9-10 of Sep, so that 
> after the conference I could move to DebConf and there also give a 
> talk about the conference.
>
> So WDYT?
>
> The MC would happen on Sat or Sun in the afternoon Indian time.
>
> Would this work for you? Or do we have to run it on a workday?
>
> I have also talked with the Community Team of Canonical and they would 
> provide me the system for remote speaking, live streaming, and 
> recording the conference (Streamyard, what is also used for the 
> Indabas and was used for the Ubuntu Summit 2022 in Prague).
>
>    Till
>
-- 
Zdenek Dohnal
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat, BRQ-TPBC