[Conferences] Open Space for conference organizers

[Catherine Devlin]

Some of you might be interested in this - Matt Arnold (who runs
Penguicon, a hybrid SF/FOSS convention with > 1000 attendees) is
planning a (daylong, I think) Open Space meeting for con organizers.
It's originating in the SF con community, but we software geeks are
welcome, too.  I hope to make it there myself (still figuring out
travel logistics).

(SMOFCon, incidentally, is a meta-convention for organizers of SF cons.)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [PyOhio-organizers] Fwd: Missing PyOhio :(
To: Catherine Devlin <catherine.devlin at gmail.com>


I'm hosting a SMOFcamp on Saturday, August 22 in Ann Arbor. It will be
an Open Space for running conventions. It's paid for by the Penguicon
board of directors and hosted as part of the new summer relaxicon,
ConStruct. http://constructacon.org

-Matt

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Catherine
Devlin<catherine.devlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Matt.  If we have time at PyOhio, I'd love to pick your brain
> about how to balance fostering-community-by-being-democratic vs.
> making-decrees-so-things-get-done.
>
> It still frustrates me that I couldn't make SMOFCon when it was in
> Columbus last year.  Why not?... (wait for it...) because I got sick,
> of course!
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Matt Arnold<matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hear, hear. You will never know the confusion you averted by this
>> proclamation. Re-arranging a large minority of a conference schedule
>> on the day the program needs to go to press is never a good idea. This
>> should be dealt with by an errata poster.
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>
> --
> - Catherine
> http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com/
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