[advocacy-discuss] Community conferences and advocacy community

[Nicolas Dorfsman]

	Hey Damian,


	fosug event in Toulouse was yesterday, so I think I understand what  
your are talking about !

Le 13 oct. 08 à 17:01, Damian Wojslaw a écrit :

> They have failed to fulfill the promise, as
> few other companies. To cut long story short, right now I paid for
> conference room from my own earnings, which ate everything from my
> private bank account, and wonderful people from community agreed to
> refund me those money. With wonderful Sun Czech being a prime example,
> agreeing to cover full conference room fee (thanks for that go to  
> Roman
> Strobl).

It's a huge thing to find money and sponsors.
The real issue is references.

Now, our firts event is behind us, we have some figures to show.
Our statistics may be also a usable tool for other OSUG when they need  
to convince sponsors.

This is the time to put our strength together.


> 	Other thing was a struggle to set up a conference website with
> registration interface and all.

Website issues for OSUG (at least for our) are multiples.
This part was a big one to solve.

> 	I, for once, volunteer to make my conference organizing skills and  
> all
> contacts I have gathered for that reason available to anyone willing  
> to
> organize their own event.

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Le 14 oct. 08 à 14:19, Jim Grisanzio a écrit :

> Damian Wojslaw wrote:
>> [cut]
>>
>> 	Since I have already tackled the problem, I'm not in hurry. But I  
>> think
>> of another one conference soon and the more help, the better. I thank
>> you all for your advices and other help so far.
>> 	Do we have a list of people that are available as speakers on
>> conferences? It would help if we had a repo of names along a rough
>> outline of when they would be available and if they can cross  
>> borders.
>>
>
>
> I'm not aware of any lists of people in the community who are  
> available
> for conferences. Sounds like an excellent database for someone to  
> create
> and maintain -- especially for user groups to share contacts and
> experiences around the world, but also for general advocacy issues.

A sort of new social networking database ?  ;-)


> When
> people ask how to find speakers, I think it's best to ping the
> appropriate technology lists and see who's interested. Or put out a  
> call
> for papers, etc. That's time consuming, but that's how to start. But
> building a database that people can volunteer for would be cool. I'm
> sure many people would like to be a part of that. I'm not aware of any
> speaker databases internally at Sun, either ....


What about a new community ? Or easier a new sub- 
mailinglist...something like "advocacy-conforg" ?


Nicolas



P.S.: photos and videos of conferences are coming.