Wineconf committee

[Jeremy White]

Hey folks,

Brian, Alexandre, and I have been talking with some kind folks that
are volunteering to help host Wineconf in Stuttgart; we're thinking
late spring for Stuttgart.

We've also had a generous offer to help set up a meeting in
conjunction with LinuxTag in Karlruhe in mid to late June.

This is all great, but I realized suddenly that the three of
us were starting to consider things and make decisions on behalf
of the broader Wine community.  While I enjoy exercising
dictatorial impunity, I prefer to have a cover group to make
my imperiousness less obvious <grin>.

Seriously, I'd like to ask for volunteers to serve on a
Wineconf planning committee.  I think the requirements for
the position are as follows:
   1.  Able and willing to attend the next Wineconf
       in Germany
   2.  Able and willing to engage in and follow the planning
       and decision making process
   3.  Have a credible background in the Wine community
       (or live in the right part of Germany <grin>).
   4.  Be willing to help in ways that may be required,
       such as showing up a day early to help prepare,
       or bringing A/V equipment, or whatever way makes
       sense.  (This isn't a requirement, but I really
       would like folks that are at least willing to
       contribute a little extra, if they are able.)

To volunteer, please email me privately, and I'll build a
chain of emails.  If we don't get any volunteers, then
Brian, Alexandre, and I will consider ourselves empowered,
and will dictate that Marcus does all the work <grin>.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Brian Vincent]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:43:57 -0600, Jeremy White  wrote:
> Brian, Alexandre, and I have been talking with some kind folks that
> are volunteering to help host Wineconf in Stuttgart; we're thinking
> late spring for Stuttgart.

I'll jump the gun here and give some more details.

The group that's offered to help is Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart
(the Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation).  They helped
put on the big KDE aKademy event a few months ago:
  http://conference2004.kde.org/

Everything is _very_ preliminary, but one of the things we've talked
about include holding it in a small town rather than Stuttgart itself. 
Of course transportation is a concern, but that's a detail to keep
in mind.  A March / April timeframe seems pretty good, but we'll
have to work around Easter (March 27th.)  Something after April 18th 
would work well for me personally, and it would also give me an
opportunity to take more time off work.  I could possibly arrive early
and help set things up.  (Really just an excuse to spend more time
sampling the local biergartens.)

We really have no clue how big of an event this will be.  We had
30 or so last year, but given that a lot of you live in Europe I think
we need to plan on at least 50.

One thing we might want to think about is if or how this should be
promoted.  WRS wanted to promote the event, but we're unsure 
if that's a good idea.  I think the big concern is we don't want to
get a bunch of clueless idiots showing up and taking away from
the event.  However, based on last year I don't think that's something
we'll have to worry about.  As long as we're clear that it's a developer
event and not a user event I think we'll be ok.  So it might be worth
promoting and seeing if we can get 80 people.
> We've also had a generous offer to help set up a meeting in
> conjunction with LinuxTag in Karlruhe in mid to late June.

This didn't seem like as good of an offer to me.  For one, there
was no meeting space arrangements.  We would have to some
how arrange it with the Linux Tag people.
> To volunteer, please email me privately, and I'll build a

I'll even volunteer publically.

[Brian Vincent]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:24:28 -0700, Brian Vincent
 wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:43:57 -0600, Jeremy White  wrote:
> > Brian, Alexandre, and I have been talking with some kind folks that
> > are volunteering to help host Wineconf in Stuttgart; we're thinking
> > late spring for Stuttgart.

There were a few more things I meant to mention.

There's been some leads about trying to organize Wineconf with another group.
I haven't followed up with any of these people yet, and it's probably
worth discussing.
Samba organizes an event each year in Germany ("Samba Experience") and it was
suggested we might want to contact them about it.  Also, X.org is
trying to organize an
event in Europe about the same time.  Would having a conference that
overlapped with
either one of these groups be useful?

Also, I have some contact info for another group (Linux New Media)
that might be able
to help us organize things.

-Brian