WineConf Preliminary Agenda

[Jeremy White]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for working on this.  I had a few thoughts:

1.  Did you talk to Chuck about his presentation?  I think he'd be good.
     (If that's one of your other possibilities, then never mind).

2.  imho, a version control conversation should not make the 'must have' cut.
     I doubt that a presentation is going to affect Alexandre's opinion, and bluntly, his
     is the only one that matters.

     I'd propose broadening that topic; I think a useful thing for us to
     do from time to time is to rouse the rabble and figure out what,
     if any, changes we wish to demand from Alexandre and/or the winehq
     infrastructure.

3.  I was going to propose that we set aside a time slot, maybe
     on Sunday, for something like 'bofs'.  The idea being that people
     could form ad hoc working groups of things they were interested in.

     It'd be a little less pressure on the organizer; they'd just have
     to propose a topic and not prepare a formal presentation, and it might
     allow more flexibility.  Last year we shied away from it because many
     people felt that we already had a small enough group that any
     splintering was counter productive.

Cheers,

Jer

Brian Vincent wrote:
> I sent some emails this week to get a preliminary agenda together.  I'd say
> it's about half complete.  So we've got:
> 
> Keynote - Alexandre
> Road to .9 and 1.0 - Dimi
> ReactOS demo - all the ReactOS guys
> Version Control - Mike Hearn
> Something related to RPC + Wine + Samba - Juan Lang 
> 
> We've got a few other items as well, but I think we need to make sure 
> we're not overlooking other topics.  I'd hate to put something on the
> agenda and then pull it back off.  I think 10-12 different topics is the
> goal.  Last year we had 12, so I'd say that's definitely an upper bound;
> we couldn't have squeezed another in. 
> 
> As far as other topics, I'd really like to see something fun on there - 
> maybe DirectX eye candy.  Also, Andrew Bartlett is the Samba authentication
> systems guru and will be there.  I'm not sure if he'd be willing to present
> anything, nor am I sure anything would be relevant to Wine.  However, it
> seems to me it could be interesting (of course, since it's an area of
> Windows and Wine I know nothing about I could be way off base.)
> 
> At this point I think we just need to fill in the gaps.  I'm not sure if 
> there's a lot of people who want to present something or not, but I think 
> it's time to ask on wine-devel.  First, however, does anyone on this list
> have any ideas?  (If I've already asked you, don't worry - I made a note.)
> I'm not sure how many WineConf attendees have subscribed to this list so
> far, but I bet it's less than half.
> 
> The next step after finalizing the agenda will be putting together a short
> email outlining presentation guidelines and what equipment will be available. 
> Someone asked if there would be a community laptop containing all of the
> presentations so we didn't spend time shuffling equipment around.  I think
> that's an excellent idea, what do you guys think?
> 
> -Brian
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