On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:03:05AM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote:

I am in favor of requiring attendees to register with the LinuxCon
event. That has always worked out nicely for everybody. Especially if we
want to have extra rooms for breakout sessions. Otherwise we have to
figure out the room costs.

Unless some company wants to step up and sponsor. Or sponsor a dinner
event and get free attendance. I think we can figure something out to
make this work if anybody is interested ;)

Sponsorship is always welcome, of course. :-)

quoted

Given the potential to expand this into a larger event, we would
likely need to be somewhat more formal about having proposals for
speaking slots.  In that case, we might require a program committee
for reviewing proposals, etc.  Anyone interested in participating in
speaking at the mini-summit or in reviewing speaking proposals should
contact me or reply in this thread.

When you and I talked originally about this, we discussed the format a
little bit. In theory we have a bunch of options here. One of the
original thoughts was 1-2 day mini-conference and 1 day break-out
sessions. I assume 6 presentation per day is maximum. Is it enough to
just do 1 day?

I don't think that 1 day is enough.  2 might not be enough, depending
on how we stage it.  Do you think that we would have more than one
"track" (e.g. separate Blueooth/802.11/NFC sessions)?  A single
"plenary" session?  Or some mix?

Any other thoughts?

And while we are at it I am volunteering myself (or someone from our
team) to give the "Bluetooth: State of the Union" talk.

Cool.

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