Re: npw2012

Hep

Salve's points are totally valid.

It is also our experience in Copenhagen, it is important to be an =
integrated part of the conference not a side-track. Side-tracks can =
always happen, but it is important to emphasize on general Perl talks, =
which introduces some of the Perl bling, line web frameworks (dancer, =
mojolicious and catalyst) or other talks, which go well with the =
expected audience. We did primarily Perl6, which was probably a bit over =
the head of most of the attendees even though it was a lot of fun.

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On 24/08/2011, at 16.01, Salve J Nilsen wrote:

> Lars Thegler said:
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Claes Jakobsson <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>>=20
>>> My plan is to organize a two or three day multi-track technology =
focused open source event/conference in Stockholm late may/early june =
next year and if it's ok with people having NPW as an part of that might =
be nice as it would also broaden the audience a bit.
>=20
> Awesome! \o/
>=20
>=20
>> Sounds perfectly fine, a bit like what Oslo did in 2009 with the Go =
Open conference?
>=20
> We tried this in 2009, and it didn't work out as well as I hoped. Here =
are a couple of things I learned from that event. I hope this obvious, =
yet completely unsolicited advice doesn't fill your brain with =
unnecessary redundancies that are not necessary. ;)
>=20
>=20
> - Find a conference venue that holds the full set of tracks. We got =
stowed away at the top floor of the building where Go Open happened, and =
even if there were good things about that, we failed in many ways to be =
visible to the other attendees.
>=20
> - Make sure there's NO "special NPW program section" for any track. =
One conference, one program.
>=20
> - If you can, try to allow plenty of time for the hallway track. 10 =
minute breaks are too short in my experience, especially if moving =
between tracks requires more than a short walk across the hallway.
>=20
> - A common lunch area helps a lot. Make sure to have interesting =
and/or provoking talks before lunch, so everyone has someting to talk =
about during lunch.
>=20
> - Don't pitch competing views or technology alternatives against =
eachother on different tracks at the same time. If you want people to =
learn different (opposing) arguments in a discussion, let them attend =
the all necessary talks.
>=20
>=20
> - Salve
>=20
> --=20
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> sub AUTOLOAD{$AUTOLOAD=3D~/.*::(\d+)/;seek(DATA,$1,0);print#  Salve =
Joshua Nilsen
> getc DATA}$"=3D"'};&{'";@_=3Dunpack("C*",unpack("u*",':4@,$'.#     =
<[email protected]>
> '2!--"5-(50P%$PL,!0X354UC-PP%/0\`'."\n"));eval "&{'@_'}";   __END__ is =
near! :)