@ -25,22 +25,21 @@ If you know for SURE that the wifi will be shaky ...
you can get a 0 cost conference made with love,but a little rougher
## Where / when ?
## Where / when ?
A Squat in Paris, that will not yet be disclosed for obvious reasons ...
A Squat in Paris, that will not yet be disclosed for obvious reasons ...
It will happened at the end of November.
It will happened 2014 November 15th .
## The plan
## The plan
We are a bunch of crazy programers that believe in anarchy and distributed systems, conferences included.
We are a bunch of crazy programers that believe in anarchy and distributed systems, conferences included.
We will provide a place, we will provide a context, some talks, and the rest will be up to you ...
## Who is behind this
## Who is behind this
SquatConf is an Idea that came after [LXJS](http://2014.lxjs.org/), It was a great conference,
and the organisation made one of the most amazing job, and after the final day of the event we ended up [dominictarr](https://github.com/dominictarr), [joates](https://github.com/joates) and [I](https://github.com/gorhgorh) talking about autonomous self driving boats when this idea came to live, now the idea mature and (insert list of interested folks here ... ^^) are in the loop
SquatConf is an Idea that came after [LXJS](http://2014.lxjs.org/), It was a great conference, and the organisation made one of the most amazing job, and after the final day of the event we ended up [dominictarr](https://github.com/dominictarr), [joates](https://github.com/joates) and [I](https://github.com/gorhgorh) talking about autonomous self driving boats when this idea came to live, now the idea matured and some folks ([mmalecki](https://github.com/mmalecki),[no9](https://github.com/no9/),[substack](https://github.com/substack/)) are in the loop now.
## Ok so you are a bunch of idealist that will make a 10 ppl conference in a dump ...
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- Tickets will be on donation, you want a cheap conf give 0, you want provided food ...
- this won't be a 400 ppl conf for sure, but do you NEED that much ppl ?
- there are already speakers interested for who you would enjoy spend some bucks :)
- you have idead to improve this thing ? they are gladly welcome.
- we plan to make it zero sum ... ie, we will split eventual benefit with atendees, ROI in a squat conference !!!
## additional notes
so this is the first draft of what I think squatconf is, feel free to modify =)
We have the venue almost secured, we should now think of a date ... the latter the better, considering that we have not yet enough speakers and no intendance.
what we could pull in this little time frame would be IMO
- single track
- one / two day depending nbr of speakers
- should be in a week end so volunteers/attendees don't blow holiday to help/attend.
- 50 / 70 attendees (chairs, minimal internet/ local network)
what I already have
- a space (we can talk about it but not here)
- sound system for the room
- video proj.
- domain : [squatconf.eu](http://squatconf.eu/)
working on :
- lights
needed :
- people, lots of em :)
- website
- chairs
- minimal amount of food
a we need to finalise this doc and remove this part so we start to talk about it
we could create a gitter room to have an IRC like channel to chat with ppl that get involved and have history of our discutions.
- you have ideas to improve this thing ? they are gladly welcome.
- we plan to make it zero sum ... ie, we will split eventual benefit with attendees, ROI in a squat conference !!!