[wsfii-discuss] Proposed WSFII streams

Wed Aug 3 16:02:55 UTC 2005

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 08:34:33AM -0700, Jo Walsh wrote:
> time-and-motion plan for different uses of the Town Hall building and
> the spaces available in it (main hall, capacity 150-200 at a push;
> 'annotation room' on ground floor, capacity maybe 20 with desks or 40
> with chairs; 'map room' on top floor, best network facilities, capacity 10)

The hall has a higher capacity - up to 400 if necessary. We'll be lucky
to get so many though. We can squeeze a few more into the balcony at a
push, but details still have to be negotiated. Other estimates of
capacity are also a bit conservative, Jo, but I think this is realistic
in terms of how many we can attract.

Re: free culture and community currency (yes, good terminology jo) I
think they're essential. There are also a host of other
nearly-big-enough-to-have-a-stream-to-themselves areas that we can't
exclude:

- privacy, p2p for example, which may have one or two interesting
  delegations to accommodate. Maybe these become 'meetups' during the
preparatory week, rather than fully-fledged and programmed 'streams'.

Anyway, please let's invite people from those contexts too, and we can
fit an appropriate wrapper around them when we konw who can make it.
'others' might work.

> >   * Open Money stream: this is not included in above but there seems to 
> > be quite a bit of interest in this both for sprint and for a panel. Who 
> > is dealing with this?

At the moment, nobody, but Keith is confirmed, and is a Big Name Speaker
as well. Perhaps I could ask Mamading Ceesay, Mary Fee and Hugh Barnard
to take this on as stream organisers. I think they're on this list (wave)

> As we are still seriously proposing running the 'Lime' in a couple of
> local cafes and shops for the duration of WSFII / a way of managing
> sprinters' lunch expenses, i think we should definitely have a
> community currency session or sessions over the main weekend. If we
> also organise a sprint, i think it would be *after*, not before this
> weekend, as one of the main London-based free software protagonists is
> out of town til the 31st.

I think we should give this a try. It doesn't need to be a fully-fledged
system, even if it's just a 'token' lets system (sorry) it would still
work as a way of getting people into the idea (food is a powerful
motivator) and will do some useful 'outreach' to local businesses in the
Limehouse area.

> I have not yet made any invitations, as still unclear on the scope. 
> Most people we do invite will be UK/southeast based and won't need travel
> expenses. LETS/cc/openmoney people, as money-heads, tend to be
> reasonably well off and not need subsidy.

I had a conversation with Julian Priest, Shekhar Krishnan and Tomas Kragg
today - and we did some work on the ShouldInvite list - to check we
weren't duplicating. I tried to include as many people as I knew you had
mentioned for the geodata stream, jo, but it could use a look-over.

Maybe we can actually do some invites today. The problem of how we
resource travel is still there... Some people are resourced through
various grants that have been applied for - there's still room to wiggle
in a few more I hope.

> >   * Is there any plan to have parallel 'lightning' talks of similar in 
> > parallel with main panels? This might be a useful place for people to 
> > talk about a personal project (panels are supposed to be quite general)
> 
> dear Rufus, i don't think there is any plan at all.

I'm about to post about this. I'm willing to take a first stab at a plan.

let's go!

x

S.