[Steering Committee] Bunch of stuff, I think

[Jason Lee]

OK.  We have notified the winners drawn post-meeting for the 2 GOSS passes
Jay Zimmeran has kindly donated.  Do we want to do that same for IDEA?  I
can go either way.  It may be harder to pull off, since some either have it
or don't want it.

We seem to be a victim of our own success.  We've outgrown our normal room,
and even the new "bigger" one they gave us was pretty full, even had we
filled in the middle.  We need to give some serious thought on what to do.
Here are some ideas, in no particular order and not necessarily with any
sort of endorsement:

   - Find a bigger room
   - Change locations (Ryan has offered Valtech's soon-to-be-completed
   location, but that's downtown and poses its own unique problems)
   - Cap attendance at n per meeting
   - Make the evening session more appealing, thereby driving more people
   to that session (e.g., do the give-aways in the evening)

Hopefully, someone will have more ideas.  We need to do *something*, but I'm
not sure what it should be.

Speaking of the evening meeting, a thought:  Our current plan is to use the
evening meeting to do sort of a tutoring session, with the presentation
being done only at lunch, given the generally vastly lower attendance at
night.  While I can see the appeal, logistically, of the lunch session, I
think it works against us *and* our speaker, in that we are very strictly
limited in our time.  By the time we get things organized (including getting
into the room ;), people get food and settled, we may only have 45-50
minutes for the speaker to present and take questions.  Anyone who has
presented knows how little time that can be.  With all of that said, should
we swing back toward an evening (only?) session, or do we just suck it up at
lunch?  Some of the comments from the April session wanted more code and
more depth, which just isn't that easy given our time constraints.  What
does everyone think?

With April done, we can being to look toward May, where we have Brett
speaking.

*Brian*, I think you said we have a sponsor for May?  Do I remember that
right?  If so, who is it?  *

Ryan*,* *we may want to verify room reservations.  We had an issue Tuesday
night with our assigned room (311) being assigned to someone else.  We
managed to find and empty one, but it was a bit awkward dragging our
out-of-town guest from room to room. :P *

Brett*, do you have a title and abstract ready for your presentation?  I'm
going to be updating the site this morning, and I'd like to get that posted
and start spreading the word.

That's it for now, I think, but I can't promise there won't be another
email. :)  The work never ends! :P

-- 
Jason Lee, SCJP
Software Architect -- Objectstream, Inc.
Mojarra and Mojarra Scales Dev Team
https://mojarra.dev.java.net
https://scales.dev.java.net
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