Re: talks on Fosdem

Hey Susanne,

On 24 November 2011 08:22, Susanne Ebrecht <susanne(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> of course I saw all the cfp announcement.
>
> Honestly, I would like to see a panel discussion between Dave / Magnus (a
> person
> from PG Core) and either Monty or a NoSQL representative.

maybe you wanna ask Jan Lehnardt form CouchDB for a nice discussion

> Fosdem 2007 - the first European event on which France and Germany worked
> together.
> Here the idea of PG-EU was born.
>
> Mainly for sharing donations that we could need inner Europe.
> Transferring money from / to US was a pain at that time.
>
> Fosdem 2008 - we made it legal. The contract was signed and we elected a
> board.
>
> PG-EU organised 4 conferences (Prato, Paris, Stuttgart, Amsterdam).
>
> Additionally, we have an own dev room on Fosdem since 2009.
>
> Originally, we wanted to use Fosdem also to do a members meeting.
>
> I would like to see the financial statement on upcoming Fosdem.
>
> How much money did we collect? How much did we spend?
> For what did we spend money? Who is our biggest sponsor?
> How much money / donations do we really need in Europe?
>
> Also I would like that we think about PG EU.
> A kind of 5-years revenue. With un-nice questions like:
> Was it a success? Was it a good idea? Did we reach what we wanted?
> Are the original thoughts still covered? Do we still need PG EU?
> What are the future plans?
>
> Looking back to Fosdem 2011:
> We got a dev room on Saturday.
>
> In all past years - Fosdem always started on Saturday around noon.
> I once got told that the reason for it is - that the Belgian Saturday
> mornings
> are usual work and school days. Means - universities have usual services
> during
> the morning.
>
> Also 2011 - Fosdem started around noon.
> That means we only could place very few talks.
>
> Spending an hour for the financial statement was skipped.
>
> How is it 2012?
> Is a members meeting planned?
>
> When we just have a few hours again - shouldn't we think about sticking
> together and talk about special topics together? Ad hoc speaking instead
> of huge prepared slides. Having a group of speakers concentrating on the
> real questions the people have instead of just single speakers who talk
> about
> a special topic and not enough time for questions.
>
> Just my thoughts,
>
> Susanne
>
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