You have an excellent point, and we hope the new (hopefully stable) forums will provide an archive of team experiences. We've taken some of the most important bits of feedback from the past and built them into the StartGuide and the general guidelines, though. The most general guideline is to pick a particular audience and craft an event to reach that audience, through interaction, dialogue, *and* CD distribution -- that's the best beginning to a successful event. Cheers, Matt Alan Pope wrote: [Tue Jul 11 2006, 04:35:02AM EDT]
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:32:38AM -0400, Matt Oquist wrote:
But seriously, I don't think that the website changes are *that* big a deal, because SFD is still such a once-a-year thing that most people aren't going to remember last year's site, anyway.
What people like myself who have never been involved in SFD, and would like to get information about how things ran in previous years? We don't want to do things that are ineffective or "wrong". If I could browse through old forums / wiki pages / whatever then I could get a head-start.
I'd much rather learn from other peoples mistakes than my own.
Cheers, Al. --
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On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 13:37 -0400, Matt Oquist wrote:
Alan Pope wrote: [Tue Jul 11 2006, 04:35:02AM EDT]
What people like myself who have never been involved in SFD, and would like to get information about how things ran in previous years? We don't want to do things that are ineffective or "wrong". If I could browse through old forums / wiki pages / whatever then I could get a head-start.
I'd much rather learn from other peoples mistakes than my own.
Hear hear, learning from other people's experience is a core FOSS value! A wiki page would be a good place to put this - the forums, being threaded and perhaps a bit confusing, might not be the ideal location for such information. Take a look at http://softwarefreedomday.org/lessons Currently there are a few lessons from 2004 (nudge to experienced SFDers: please post your 2005 experiences/reminiscences for people to learn from!) so you can get some info there. Robert.
Hi all, <quote who="Matt Oquist">
What people like myself who have never been involved in SFD, and would like to get information about how things ran in previous years? We don't want to do things that are ineffective or "wrong". If I could browse through old forums / wiki pages / whatever then I could get a head-start.
I'd much rather learn from other peoples mistakes than my own.
Also, you can always look at the other team pages. We are slowly trying to backdate all the team reports onto the http://softwarefreedomday.org/TeamReports page which is why I urge everyone to ensure after this event (and all future ones) you write a short report and link it to this page :) Volunteers willing to help backdate that page would be most welcome!! Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/
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