[opensolaris-summit] Event Format

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

Tim Foster wrote:
> hey Ben,
> 
> Ben Rockwood wrote:
>> What will the format of the summit be?  One big room?  Or will we have 
>> breakout sessions in various rooms? 
> 
> Looks like there's 4 rooms, according to the summit web page, with
> selected stuff being held in one big room - no idea of the other
> details though.

We have I think up to 5 rooms, and we're pretty flexible with the schedule. The
big issue is trying to figure out how best to use our time. With relatively few
people, it doesn't make sense to split up into too many parallel tracks and
there's likely to be knowledgeable people missing out on important conversations.

If you have suggestions for how best to schedule this, let us know. I guess the
trick is to someone schedule discrete topics that don't have much crossover at
any given time.

>> Further, has anyone thought about making preparations to record the 
>> event for distribution for those who can not attend?  If we go the "big 
>> room" route this is pretty easy to accommodate.
> 
> I'm hoping to record whatever sessions I attend - though I might need
> to borrow someone's laptop to save the mp3s off to another usb
> mass-storage device (my recorder can only do about 4hrs at a time to
> it's builtin flash, and I've no laptop at the moment)  96kps mp3 should
> be okay, right?
> 
> With a few more volunteers with recorders, we might have it
> covered - anyone else?

Sure, I'll bring a videocam, or buy an MP3/OGG recorder on the way over.

> I was planning to add edited highlights to the ie-osug podcast feed
> anyway, and definitely see the value of recording as much as we can.

Absolutely. I'm very much hoping that people within each of the sessions will
nominate someone to take notes and do a write up of the results of the discussion.


Glynn