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

Working days would be great for me as well, but if there is no other 
way, I can manage, but working days are preferred.


Zdenek

On 6/5/23 23:19, Ira McDonald wrote:
> Hi Till,
>
> This idea all makes sense, EXCEPT that 9-10 September is a 
> Saturday/Sunday.
>
> For me (and probably Mike and others), that's out-of-the-question.
>
> If you could back up two days to 7-8 September on Thursday/Friday, 
> then I could
> possibly call in.
>
> Remember that there is a 9 1/2 hour time difference between IST in 
> India and EDT
> in US.  So the only practical timeslot is very early EDT in US (e.g., 
> 7am) and late
> afternoon in India (e.g., 4:30pm) and early afternoon in Europe (e.g., 
> 1pm CEST).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira
>
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> On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 4:54 PM Till Kamppeter 
> <[email protected]> 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
>
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Zdenek Dohnal
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat, BRQ-TPBC