[openbeos] Re: Waltercon 07


Am 29.04.2007 um 19:01 schrieb Nicholas Blachford:


BeGeistert is a pretty casual event and anyone can attend.
Not true. We're liasing with secret services around the world and will be introducing full-body searches at the next event to help combat international terrorism! ;-)
Is casual really the correct description? It is certainly informal but by no means unproductive. I have literally had to separate people by force so that they were able to get their connections home.
There will be a commonality between the two events and that can't really be avoided but a Waltercon will by definition be about Haiku and developers, Zeta and BeOS are as such off the menu. End users shouldn't be excluded but the event should be targeted at developers.
Agreed although given the common API this would be essentially distribution neutral: we've succeeded in hosting both Haiku and Zeta for the last couple of years which isn't surprising given the fact that many have developed for both.
BeGeistert has various presentations most of which deal with "what", What was developed, what features were added etc. A developer conference should be more about "how" and "why", how this was achieved and why it was done that way. 

"What not how" by C J Date is one of my favourite books!
I think you're summary is generally correct but we have also covered other areas.
As for the question of US Vs Europe Waltercon I don't think this should be an issue, you are likely to get a completely different audience at each event. Having one event on one side of the pond should not preclude one on the other, there is no reason (apart from possibly financing) not to have both. 

Here I disagree. The target market remains extremely small.
So, how about having a more focused event with a range of talks on developer related subjects? If it's here I can offer multicore processors and / or Cell development (not Haiku specific but certainly relevant).
Also what about moving it to early next year (say January) so as not to clash with BeGeistert? 

January is pisspottically poor for travelling in Europe.
Perhaps simpy alternating between a core and non-core event would be a solution but I would like to see the core event succeed first. 

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