Hi Brian,
Thanks for working on this. I had a few thoughts:
1. Did you talk to Chuck about his presentation? I think he'd be good. (If that's one of your other possibilities, then never mind).
2. imho, a version control conversation should not make the 'must have' cut. I doubt that a presentation is going to affect Alexandre's opinion, and bluntly, his is the only one that matters.
I'd propose broadening that topic; I think a useful thing for us to do from time to time is to rouse the rabble and figure out what, if any, changes we wish to demand from Alexandre and/or the winehq infrastructure.
3. I was going to propose that we set aside a time slot, maybe on Sunday, for something like 'bofs'. The idea being that people could form ad hoc working groups of things they were interested in.
It'd be a little less pressure on the organizer; they'd just have to propose a topic and not prepare a formal presentation, and it might allow more flexibility. Last year we shied away from it because many people felt that we already had a small enough group that any splintering was counter productive.
Cheers,
Jer
Brian Vincent wrote:
I sent some emails this week to get a preliminary agenda together. I'd say it's about half complete. So we've got:
Keynote - Alexandre Road to .9 and 1.0 - Dimi ReactOS demo - all the ReactOS guys Version Control - Mike Hearn Something related to RPC + Wine + Samba - Juan Lang
We've got a few other items as well, but I think we need to make sure we're not overlooking other topics. I'd hate to put something on the agenda and then pull it back off. I think 10-12 different topics is the goal. Last year we had 12, so I'd say that's definitely an upper bound; we couldn't have squeezed another in.
As far as other topics, I'd really like to see something fun on there - maybe DirectX eye candy. Also, Andrew Bartlett is the Samba authentication systems guru and will be there. I'm not sure if he'd be willing to present anything, nor am I sure anything would be relevant to Wine. However, it seems to me it could be interesting (of course, since it's an area of Windows and Wine I know nothing about I could be way off base.)
At this point I think we just need to fill in the gaps. I'm not sure if there's a lot of people who want to present something or not, but I think it's time to ask on wine-devel. First, however, does anyone on this list have any ideas? (If I've already asked you, don't worry - I made a note.) I'm not sure how many WineConf attendees have subscribed to this list so far, but I bet it's less than half.
The next step after finalizing the agenda will be putting together a short email outlining presentation guidelines and what equipment will be available. Someone asked if there would be a community laptop containing all of the presentations so we didn't spend time shuffling equipment around. I think that's an excellent idea, what do you guys think?
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