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I agree it is a crazy idea and I'm not sure if it would work, but I like the out of the box thinking. If the site had one big space that could handle 500 people, you could just have one keynote session that both groups attended., I guess. That does restricts the options for locations, but not as much as needing a room for 500 people the whole time. Speaker wise, you'd probably only have to be there one extra day. I guess that might mean, however, that a speaker (w|c)ould participate in half of conference A and half of conference B if that is how they approached it. Edward On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Peter Murray <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > That is a crazy idea. I don't know about putting the speakers on the hook for two days -- particularly keynote speakers. Still, it would be interesting for a site to flesh this out and propose something along these lines. > > > Peter > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Fleming, Declan wrote: >> Hi - so I know this is nuts. >> >> If we start with a couple premises for the code4lib conference: >> >> 1. Single thread is crucial. >> 2. 250 is about the top limit of a single threaded conference. >> 3. 400+ people want to attend. >> 4. The conference takes 2.5 days. >> >> What if we ran the 2.5 day conference twice in one week? >> >> 1. Session 1 runs from Monday until noon on Weds. >> 2. Session 2 runs from 1p on Weds until the end of Friday. >> 3. Every one of the 23 accepted talks is given twice, once in each Session, in the same order. >> 4. Each Session is attended by a different set of attendees. >> >> We could serve 500 attendees this way. >> >> If everyone came for the week, there could be parallel seminars, hack fests, BootCamps, THATcamps, CURATEcamps, c4lcamps, etc... for the half of the 500 that wasn't in the main conference. People could also just decide to come for the 2.5 day main conference, I guess. >> >> I SAID it was crazy. ;) >> >> D > > > > -- > Peter Murray > Assistant Director, Technology Services Development > LYRASIS > [log in to unmask] > +1 678-235-2955 > > 1438 West Peachtree Street NW > Suite 200 > Atlanta, GA 30309 > Toll Free: 800.999.8558 > Fax: 404.892.7879 > www.lyrasis.org > > LYRASIS: Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers.