<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 18, 2009, at 12:39 AM, glerm soares wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/17 Hans-Christoph Steiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at">hans@at.or.at</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style=""><div><br></div><div>From my experience, simple classrooms (i.e. not lecture halls), or meeting rooms, or rooms like that work really well. I think an auditorium might not work very well because it is important for people to mingle and mix and talk to each other.</div> <div><br></div><div>.hc</div></div></blockquote><div><br>I agree. Is important that the place doesn't have a stage or fixed chairs.<br><br>I have some ideas that some of you could join:<br><br>1) I can help people to build a low cost microcontroller, based in arduino-firmata firmware but the cheaper way possible and use it as a general example of physical-pd interaction. Here I already explained the technique in portuguese:<br> <a href="http://artesanato.devolts.org/?page_id=2">http://artesanato.devolts.org/?page_id=2</a><br><br>2) I would like to help people to make an "install-fest" of puredata this day... I also would like to install linux for those who want to join the crew... I can also help to compile objects which aren't in pd-extended package.<br> <br>3) I would like to make a "pd-svn tour" - I mean - open all the folders in puredata svn as possible during the day and try to browse as much objects as possible, and mainly try to identify developers that are around the place to take deep studies on specific cases.<br> <br>4) To make a F.A.Q. of puredata doubts and question by the present people, and try to solve the question during the convention...<br><br><br><br>what else?<br><br><br>simple as that -> The hackmeeting has already started ... :)<br> see you soon...</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I think your ideas definitely sound good. One question I have is how to handle the languages. Should it be only English, or should there be some Portuguese sessions too?</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps we should set up a wiki page to start organizing it? Things like ideas for sessions, time slots, etc. It doesn't need to be complicated.</div><div><br></div><div>.hc</div></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. - Thomas Jefferson</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></body></html>