[lac-streams] LAC website & archive

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:18:23AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Eric Dantan Rzewnicki (and others) wrote:
> Actually I think, we should start this list immediately now to archive
> this discussion, too. 

lac-team at linuxaudio.org ?

Robin, can you make that happen?

> > irc channel and perhaps wiki that persist from year to year, I
> > think the work of the local team will benefit greatly from the
> > participation of past years' organizers and the work of the streamteam
> > will improve through closer colaboration with the orga-team.
> > 
> > To some extent this already happens, but mostly behind the scenes in
> > German and not in a public forum. I suppose to some degree certain
> > things wrt sponsorship and submission selection need to be kept private.
> > But as a stream-team member for 4 of LACs 6 years, I would like to at
> > least have access to the logistical discussions as I feel we can do a
> > better job and be of more use to the orga-team if we have more
> > information and some input into the process.
> 
> Actually in the end, the lac-orga list we had stayed almost unused:
> Most discussions happend between Martin and myself face to face or by
> phone, often with Christoph Haag on the line as well for design issues
> or Laura Oldenbourg for the proceedings. Dealing with things face to
> face was also necessary because it's so much faster than writing
> mails and the nearer LAC came, the faster we had to deal with things.

I understand that most of the details are face-to-face type things, but
there is at least some advance planning that could benefit from
geo-dispersal. Also, just having a location where regular updates and
status for the concerned parties to stay informed would be a good thing.
Might also be useful to have some way to organize voluneers. 

> Many organisational issues are rather uninspiring anyways, like
> checking out local manufacturers for T-Shirts. ;)
> 
> We never felt the need for an IRC channel as a tool to prepare the
> LAC. A private LAC wiki however would have been useful for certain
> things (like the list of people to thank. We forgot some ...).
> 
> I think, a project management system (maybe Trac) would be even
> better. I did use SVN a lot during LAC-preparation for press texts,
> funding requests etc. These things require finely grained access
> control like: everyone should read press releases, only Martin and myself
> should access the financial side etc. so Trac may be nice, but PMWiki
> etc. would not.

votes++ for project management system.

> OpenConf was almost perfect for handling the paper review process. I
> lacks a database field for who is presenting the paper at the
> conference, if more than one author is listed. It has a field for the
> main author, but that wasn't the presenter in several cases. Other
> than that it was very useful. Installation should be fresh each year
> however.

OpenConf is presumably open source, so perhaps we can send a patch
upstream? At any rate, I would very much like to have the conf mgt
system decided and persistent year-to-year so we can get the streaming
meta-data and file naming scripts pulling from it.

Anyway, shall we hold off further discussion until we have an archived
list?

-Eric

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