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About
MeeGo Conference will be held at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland November 15-17th, 2010
The MeeGo Conference replaces the Maemo Summit. We're using the term "conference" because The Linux Foundation usually uses the term "summit" to refer to invitation-only events, and since the MeeGo conference is open to anyone who would like to attend, we decided to refer to it as the MeeGo Conference to avoid confusion.
Registration is still open and you can reserve your room in our hotel block at the D4 complex right next to the Aviva Stadium.
The Twitter hashtag for the MeeGo Conference is #MeeGoConf. There will also be a Qaiku thread on the MeeGo channel.
There is an Identi.ca group tag !meegoconf
Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/meegoconf2010/
Prospectus is now available, please send to anyone who is interested in sponsoring MeeGo Conference 2010! MeeGo Conference Prospectus
Audience
The MeeGo Conference targets a technical audience of:
- MeeGo developers
- OSVs, OEMs, and other integrators
- Other MeeGo project contributors
Other target audience suggestions
- Relevant media representatives (bloggers, promoters)
Format and Logistical Details
- There are firm plans for some early bird sessions organized by community members on the afternoon of Saturday, November 13 and all day Sunday, November 14.
- The main event is a 3 day event, begins Monday Nov. 15th thru Wednesday Nov. 17th
- The first two days (Monday and Tuesday) will have scheduled sessions
- Wednesday will be an unconference day
- Lightning Talks will be held on Wednesday.
- Some unofficial conference document templates are available for those who like these kinds of things:
- We currently have evening events planned on Monday Nov. 15th at the Stadium, Tuesday Nov. 16th at Guinness Storehouse and will have tickets to the Ireland / Norway football game on Wednesday Nov. 17th.
- Conference Held at Aviva stadium
- Conference Space that we have:
- Presidents Terrace for Keynotes Day 1 sits 1200 theatre style or 580 cab (cabaret style) - suggesting theatre style for the keynotes
- Breakout session will be used as follows:
- Level 02
- 1. Presidents area split in half area 1 sits 300 cab
- 2. Presidents area 2 sits 280 cab
- 3. Vavasour suite sits 80 cab
- Level 03 (where you enter)
- The Atrium- registration/welcome/tea and coffee breaks
- The flow between the Atrium and the next break out area called the Henry suite will be an area for a proposed Technology Showcase for MeeGo projects to be displayed and demo's.
- 4. 1872 area sits 120 cab is the 4th breakout area opposite the atrium on the other side of the stadium.
- Level 04 (stairs/elevator from the atrium)
- 5. Havelock suite sits 130 cab- 5th breakout area
- 6. Media center- in another part of the stadium: Perfect for a Graphics track or UI track based on the space.
- Hotels being used are the D4 hotels and you may book through registration site (read about details on site below)
- Registration site is planned to go up no later than August 7. but we are aiming for it to be up mid-July.
- The Registration will have a place for submissions to the call for papers (including submissions from Intel / Nokia) and a small selection committee will be responsible for choosing the presentations based on the merits of each submission.
- Anyone is welcome to submit a proposal or attend the event.
- The event will be free for attendees
- Sponsorship Prospectus is attached under Sponsor section, please send to anyone interested
- Updated 6/22/10 AL
Location
Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland- November 15-17th, 2010
Contract is in place and planning information will be updated online for your involvement:)
- Aviva Stadium
- Conference facility has held for us one plenary room for the keynote session, and 6-8 breakout rooms to seat 100, I will be creating a presentation to place online, so everyone will see where and what rooms we will be the seesions of the conference in.
- Dublin is an easy city to get to for international travelers
- Venue is right on mass transit line (DART)
- Outside of Schengen area, non-EU citizens would require visa Visa information for Ireland
Accommodation
See MeeGo Conference 2010/Accommodation
- We have reserved a block of 530 rooms with D4 Hotels, in three hotels near the location. Rooms bookings are available through the conference site. We will also have a 24hr networking room in the hotels during the conference
- Sponsored accommodation will be in this venue only - see sponsored participants for more information on requesting sponsorship. In the event of cancellation, the intial deposit on reservation will not be refunded
- Rooms are available from €65 per night to €115 per night through the conference registration system
- We are also holding 100 rooms at the Herbert Park hotel again only a couple blocks from the stadium
Flight Information
See MeeGo Conference 2010/Flight Information
Video coverage
This is the plan so far:
- There is a professional team dedicated to record, stream, edit and upload all the videos.
- All the tracks of the first two days will be recorded. The videos will be uploaded on the same evening or up to 48 hours later. The limitations are the editing work and also the risk of overloading the network bandwidth during the conference hours.
- In addition to this, the main room will have live streaming for all sessions during the first two days.
- The plan for the unconference day still needs to be defined but in any case the same video crew and equipment will be available.
Volunteering: is someone is interested in shooting additional video coverage please share your ideas at the meego-community mailing list.
The organization has a budget to sponsor the travel and accommodation of selected community contributors. Participants willing to be sponsored must request it through the conference registration. The requests will be evaluated by the Sponsoring Committee (see below).
The idea is to handle the approvals through several rounds of acceptance: first the speakers approved, then the requesters obtaining unanimous support, then the rest until all the sponsorship budget is allocated. An private online spreadsheet will be used to register the votes of the committee members. The discussion will be held through mail and we will organize IRC or conference meetings if needed. The rough prioritisation used by the committee shall be:
- Speakers.
- Organisers/conference logistical people who aren't being paid to.
- Active MeeGo community members:
- Developers (both of MeeGo, and MeeGo applications)
- Bug reporters
- Community office-type stuff
- Anyone else making a valuable contribution
- Active legacy community members:
- Maemo community members (karma helps here, but isn't a be-all and end-all)
- Moblin community members
- Members of core upstream projects
Each request shall, of course, be made on a case-by-case basis.
If you have requested sponsorship and you require a 'complicated' visa please contact Quim Gil explaining your case and adding a URL to your meego.com profile.
If you have applied for sponsorship and you can only attend the conference if being sponsored, then don't book anything until you have got a confirmation. The first round of sponsorship confirmations will be sent out on 24th September.
The way the Linux Foundation handles this process in their conferences is simple: you find the best trip, get approval from Angela Brown (Linux Foundation), book your trip and the LF will reimburse you. If you have been approved and you don't have anybody around you with a credit card to do the booking then contact Angela and explain your case. This is no guarantee for anything but she is the one that will be coordinating these reimbursements.
The hotel reservation of sponsored participants will be booked by the Linux Foundation directly. The organization will sponsor you 4 nights and you must decide which ones you choose. For instance, you can fly in on Saturday morning in order to take part in the Early Bird Events but then you'll need to check out on Wednesday morning or cover the extra nights yourself.
Time line
- Sep 20: Infra setup. Fine tuning details. Sponsorship approval of accepted speakers starts.
- Sep 24: Checkbox to request sponsorship removed from registration. No new sponsorship requests accepted.
- Sep 24: First wave of sponsorship requests approved: accepted speakers.
- Sep 28: Each sponsorship committee member has gone through all the candidates voting Yes/No in the private spreadsheet.
- Oct 1: Second wave completed: candidates with 5/5 votes.
- Oct 8: Third wave completed: candidates with 4-3 votes, depending on budget available.
- Oct 15: Resolution on remaining cases. All requests are accepted/declined at this point.
Team
The Sponsoring Committee is in charge of reviewing the sponsorship requests sent by individuals registering to the conference. It is formed by five members: Quim Gil (coordinator, Community Office), Dawn Foster (Community Office), Angela Brown (Linux Foundation), Glen Gray (Moblin/netbook bg) and Andrew Flegg (Maemo/handset bg).
Volunteering
To run a smooth and successful MeeGo Conference will require a number of volunteers. If you want to volunteer for a certain part of the conference, please add your name below that heading, linked to your meego.com profile. You can follow the conference organization work at the Community Matters forum (specifically this thread).
General
Not sure where you want to volunteer yet until the conference schedule is finalized? Put your name here and we'll add more detailed volunteer tables in the months to come.
Volunteers: Dave Neary/dneary, Randall Arnold/Texrat, Steve Paine/Chippy, Tim Samoff/timsamoff, Andrea Grandi/andy80, Fernando Martin/ferwakeup, Jens Wiik/jnwi, Thomas Perl/thp, Sivan Greenberg, Aniello Del Sorbo/anidel, Andrei Mirestean/andrei1089, Ryan Ware/ryanware, Michał Sawicz/saviq, Valerio Valerio/VDVsx, Alessandro Peralma/No!No!No!Yes!.
Scheduled Opportunities
Please commit to specific tasks and times on the Volunteer Grid
There are a number of volunteer opportunities that people can signup for specific time slots, such as manning the information desk or session tech support. Since the final conference schedule isn't available yet, people can signup for the tasks now and then shift around the times they are available later. These are the types of volunteer opportunities:
- IRC Chat Moderators
- Information Desk Helpers
- Session Tech Support
- Conference Setup - Sunday 14
- Conference Cleanup - Wednesday 17
- Speaker Assistants
- Conference Room Reservation Table
- Hacking Session Helpers
Volunteers:
Organizing Opportunities
A number of the conference activities have yet to be fully organized and the conference committee would love help with these tasks. Here is a list of activities still needing to be organized. It might be best to start forum threads for each of the specific organizing tasks and then document here the decisions.
- Organize Early Bird Events
- Organize Hacking Sessions
- Organize Temple Bar Night
- Organize Signup for Guinness Shuttles
- Reach out to local businesses for conference deals
Volunteers:
- Andrea Grandi/andy80: I propose myself for Organize Early Bird Events. I'd like to lead the organization of two days (November 13th, 14th) in the similar way we (Maemo Community) organized the Barcelona Long Weekend. More details soon.
- thp - Early Bird Events w/ Andrea
- RevdKathy: Organise the Meego Greeters to provide mobile information and help around the conference.
Topics
Potential themes for the conference which suit a first conference.
- MeeGo for Maemo & Moblin application developers
- Bringing developers from old platform to new
- please define here how the old differs from the new. I am assuming the new platform includes using the Qt framework as the standard, but what else? What is the smooth way to move RPM -> DEB?
- MeeGo for N900 and N8x0 owners
- What is MeeGo in a concrete way? Is it a set of userland libraries and applications that you can run on your N900 in a chrooted environment for example?
- Bring our old power users over
- dual booting a "Meego flash image" on your N?x? device? What about MER?
- New developers coming to MeeGo
- Qt and WRT, and maybe Clutter
- Distributing MeeGo software
- yes, please explain how to do this in light of the current system of uploading Debian packages & promoting?
- What comes after Extras?
- MeeGo platform
- Getting more developers involved in the MeeGo platform, and reaching out to upstream to have a critical mass of MeeGo middleware developers there
- Cool stuff (hardware & software) coming out of Helsinki & Portland
- Target press & new users
- Building a healthy MeeGo community
- Involving Intel and Nokia engineers, upstream, platform hackers, application developers and power users in the MeeGo community - covering things like outreach and events, community infrastructure (including the Technical Steering Group, working groups, council?), social dynamics & policies, and community involvement in product roadmaps, etc
- Testing with MeeGo
- Test development, image creation, test execution and debugging as a smooth ride along development.
- The Community Development Ecosystem around MeeGo (lbt)
- Building against MeeGo - the Maemo and MeeGo community OBSes
- Application development and community application QA - Extras and PPAs(?)
- Experimental development - MeeGo on N8x0
A first draft of the Call for Papers is up: MeeGo_Conference_2010/DraftCFP
Other suggestions for the event
- 3 days event, 2 days organized by the community and one organized by the companies involved. Developers, platform and power users tracks. --Vdvsx 22:24, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
- In addition to 20 minute talks and 5 minute lightning talks, a provision for talks that fit in between (10 minutes) --Texrat 03:47, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
- team-building, brainstorming exercises on a large scale (like the Co-Creation Workshop held before Maemo Summit 2009 --Texrat 03:47, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
- themed tracks with breakout sessions between X sets of presentations (where X can be number of sessions or time duration). --Texrat 05:41, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
- Birds Of Feather (BOFs)- for casual non formal feature planning and development specification: --sivan
- A group of people interested in a feature or a process gather around a round table.
- A driver for the discussion presents the topic he wants to spec out or a topic assigned to him to present from the list of process and features desired.
- Input is arriving from participants, and is ironed out as "user stories" , as well as leads, references tips and hints for undertaking the development.
- The driver after finishing the session sets to finish the spec in terms of completeness and publish it on the wiki for peer review of the BOF participants and/or a review board that accepts features and new takes for the project.
- Recognize the non-technical contributor of the year. This is important since we have so many needs on the community side. --Texrat 01:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
- Recognize the most popular presentations. There should be a formal survey for every talk and workshop, as well as a summary survey. Use the findings to reward those who stood out. --Texrat 01:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
- Games. Some sort of intramural sports or activities. Hey, we're in a stadium, right? Let's take advantage! Okay, maybe we can't use the field, but surely we can come up with something... even tug-of-war would be fun --Texrat 01:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
- Treasure/scavenger hunt for meego goodies and prizes.
- MeeGo Greeters would make great volunteers! --Texrat 19:58, 31 August 2010 (UTC)