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Daniel,
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Last Sunday 02 January 2005 15:24, Daniel James was like:

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> Bristol is not a bad location, as it goes - better than the Isle of

> Wight, which I had thought about. It would be more difficult/expensive

> for most people to get to, wheras Bristol is quite accessible.

> > Obviously

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> > we don't want to clash with the ZKM LAD conf or any of the London Linux

> > Expo type stuff

>

> April has both the Sounds Expo and the ZKM conference - probably too

> early as well. There is only one Linux Expo this year and it is in

> October. A good resource for planning events is

> http://www.linuxcalendar.com/

Ah, thanks. That's a useful resource, slightly interesting layout.
> If you want to attract students and other young people, it might be a

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> good idea to hold it over the summer holiday period, as long as it

> doesn't clash with any of the festivals.

> It might be a good idea to bill it as a user-focused event with some

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> acessible talks from developers. The ZKM conference is primarily a

> developer event and there isn't much point in duplicating that, even if

> it is in a different country.

A User focussed event sounds rather good to me. I'd like to see some good

working demo set-ups - a recording environment - obviously Live music stuff

too and it would be good to webcast it in a similar manner to ZKM if at all

possible. I guess we'll have to see what we can pull out of the bag.
> I'd have the main sessions over a weekend so that people with jobs they

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> can't get away from will be able to attend at least some of the

> sessions. There should also be a jam session/DJ'ing/VJ'ing event.

Yep, It would be good to focus on experiential stuff - actually making music -

hands on sessions, blah ...
> Are you aiming to get sponsorship for this

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> event?

Now there's a good question. Money is always the last thing I think about. I

don't even know where I would set targets for an event like this. The event

is very much in the ideas stage, so more reason for setting the date a bit

later. I'm confident that if we build it they will come, however, many camels

need tying up between now and then.
Thanks for your positive response. :-)

I think the time is right for this particular little idea.

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cheers
--tim

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