FOSS4G 2010 Lessons Learned - Revision history

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Academic track: started

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selling VS gifting

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Lessons at the Venue

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Lessons at the Venue

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 * Communicate carefully the list of considered journals including publishing costs (if apply) to the community
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		+	* Communicate carefully the list of considered journals including publishing costs (if apply) to the community

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 ==T-shirts==
 ===selling VS gifting===
-We are still convinced of the idea of selling the t-shirts. The price is symbolic, there was no profit,  we didn't want people to though the t-shirt to the first dustbin just because it was an unwanted gift.
+We are still convinced of the idea of selling the t-shirts. The price is symbolic, there was no profit,  we didn't want people to throw the t-shirt to the first dustbin just because it was an unwanted gift.
 We've chosen to print a number close to the half of the supposed attendance.
 ===sizes===
 We did a mistake over the proportions. Expecting european sizes we decided about the proportion of 1-1-2-1 with the size M-L-XL-XXL. Unfortunately the provider had international US sizes (Fruit of...) and we had problems to place most of the XL and XXL, while M and L where quickly sold out. For the next conference I would suggest a proportion of 3-4-3-1, should better fit the attendance.

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 ==Lessons at the workshops==
 Double check that your presenters are coming for sure. Even better if they provide a second presenter or alternate presenter (backup?!?). This should avoid what happened in Barcelona with the QGIS workshops that had no presenter and we had to move people and possibly refund them (40 people!).
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 suggestion: don't sub-estimate the difficulties that can arise from the LOC and the OSGeo communities. Keep supporting an open minded approach.
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 ===when to start===
   Get ready with your website so we can link to your site while many visitors are still on ours.
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	It would be a really nice thing to provide a backchannel from twitter in different places of the venue there is a whole paralel meeting there!		It would be a really nice thing to provide a backchannel from twitter in different places of the venue there is a whole paralel meeting there!
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		+	WIFI - that's always a problem. We couldn't do better. We reserved 500 connection but we had 500 passwords instead. So switching from one session to another would take too long even if the first computer was shut down. The lesson is: if you have to limit the total amount of connection be sure you receive something that can be easily switched from one computer/mobile to another so you grant you have always a maximum amount of connection active.
		+	Most of the people use the connection for few minutes a day and can share it with the neighbour.

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	It would be a really nice thing to provide a backchannel from twitter in different places of the venue there is a whole paralel meeting there!		It would be a really nice thing to provide a backchannel from twitter in different places of the venue there is a whole paralel meeting there!
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		+	==Lessons at the workshops==
		+	Double check that your presenters are coming for sure. Even better if they provide a second presenter or alternate presenter (backup?!?). This should avoid what happened in Barcelona with the QGIS workshops that had no presenter and we had to move people and possibly refund them (40 people!).

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