Hi Adrian, some good questions here and a good list of items for us to consider. I have my own thoughts on all of them but would like to discuss with the rest of the organizing team a little more before responding - will get back to you sometime early in the new year.<div>
<br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div> Peter.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Adrian Custer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:acuster@gmail.com">acuster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 09:31 -0700, Peter Batty wrote:<br>
> The organizing committee has been working away on various tasks for<br>
> next September’s FOSS4G conference in Denver. We now have sponsorship<br>
> details sorted out – you can download the brochure at<br>
> <a href="http://bit.ly/gbWbey" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/gbWbey</a> (PDF). We are offering a 10% discount for any<br>
> sponsors who commit by the end of January.<br>
<br>
</div>Hello Peter,<br>
<br>
Thanks to all of you for your work on FOSS4g2011!<br>
<br>
Some questions below about whether you have settled on an explicit focus<br>
for your conference. It seems your choices during your organization work<br>
will invariably influence the nature of this conference as mainly either<br>
a gathering of free software hackers for fun and cooperation or as a<br>
platform for those of us vending our software projects. I wonder how<br>
much thinking and conscious decision making you have made on this issue.<br>
<br>
Will there be any limits on talks from the same organization, from the<br>
same vendor, or from members of the organizing and selection committees?<br>
In particular, how does this work in that sponsors at the<br>
$most_precious_metal sponsorship level are already guaranteed one slot?<br>
<br>
Also, are talk proposals once again going to be submitted to a<br>
popularity vote? In my analysis, that resulted in getting many talks<br>
from the well known projects and well known personalities rather than<br>
getting a wide distribution of talks favouring the, possibly whacky,<br>
smaller projects. All are interesting, of course, but lead to a<br>
different flavour for the gathering so I am wondering what you are<br>
hoping to produce.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the clarification,<br>
~adrian<br>
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> We also have a winner in our logo contest, which you can see at our<br>
> web site which is now up at <a href="http://2011.foss4g.org/" target="_blank">http://2011.foss4g.org/</a>. We had over 800<br>
> votes in total, thanks to everyone who voted! The logo design was an<br>
> interesting process. Creating a logo is always tricky because you have<br>
> as many different opinions as people involved in the process! We used<br>
> a site called crowdspring, as you will know if you voted – multiple<br>
> people compete to create your logo, which we found worked very well.<br>
> And then they also have a voting process you can use if you like,<br>
> which I found very helpful to choose a winner from the multiple good<br>
> entries.<br>
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> And as mentioned above, our web site is now up and running - it will<br>
> have a lot more content added to it over the coming weeks. But check<br>
> out the timetable leading up to the conference – some significant<br>
> items coming up are the call for workshops which will be out in mid<br>
> January, and the call for papers which will be out at the beginning of<br>
> February.<br>
><br>
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> Cheers,<br>
><br>
> Peter.<br>
><br>
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