Hi all, Thomas,
Thank you all for your feedback and participation, we had a great time and I miss having so much to see + learn everyday (and night).
I think there is a lot of merit in suggestions of using pd (or other open source tools) to facilitate the communications between us. We had some discussions on how to better use existing tools for online communication (documentation, workshops, etc). We can count on a very friendly network of individuals, user groups and centres that could support smaller initiatives. But the combination of performances, exhibitions and talks + all the exchanges that proceed from them make an actual large pd-convention difficult to replace in my view.
A couple questions I had relates to timing : how often and what is the best time of the year to hold a convention?
Conventions have a motivating effect and foster understanding and cohesion (one hopes). Three years is a long span and every year would be too taxing I believe.
It's difficult to accommodate everyone's schedules and we chose the end of August partly because we knew a number of people who teach or study could travel then. It also meant that a lot of the spaces we needed were available (thanks to the centres!). However, it could have been easier to involve students if the semester had started.
Finally, other nice recurring events like Piksel, Make Art, the Linux Audio Conference and the ICMC (sorry for the squeeze) etc. are to be worked around. It's all a little premature at this point but what are your thoughts on timing a convention?
A bientot,
Alexandre
Hey all, here are my sincere thanks to all the people who made the convention possible. It was a great time, although much too short! I hope to meet again some of you in the next future!
http://grrrr.org/pics/pdconv07
all the best, Thomas
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