World: r3wp

I can imagine complete cute app for DevCons. Not video and sound 
till Rebol 3 and proper plug-ins, but imagine this - kind of server 
(Cheyenne), accepting outer connections. Each presenter would have 
to send his slides to conference organisers, who would put it into 
structure - Schedule, with time slots. I know that schedules are 
missed, or skipped, but once connected, you could see what session 
is actually broadcasted, you could see progress bar of the estimated 
time left till the end of the session, and as presenter would go 
via slides, it would be "broadcasted" to outer world ...

pekr, to supplement your idea, it could go outside and in as well, 
presenting your stuff on the big screen from home

The trouble is, that sessions are not always like that - sometimes 
you simply show code, live demo etc., so that part cold be troublesome. 
Still better than nonthing ....

Henrik - good idea ...

but we have to hurry: MacOSX Leopard's iChat is going to have precisely 
that feature :-)

Maybe we would need two beamers - e.g. how Reichart presented his 
stuff. On one screen you could see face of presenter right corner, 
and slides, the second one could be used for live demo or something 
like that :-)

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2007/04/ichat_theaterscreenshot.jpg
<-- like this? :-)

yes ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc<--- I hope we will be 
equally enthustiastic at the next devcon

The future  is here, it's just unevenly distributed among pithy sci-fi 
authors

So... what have we learned for R3?

- unlimited words

Good enough for me.

Have we learned what the licensing structure will be? The current 
license has been a roadblock to Rebol promotion/acceptance.. is this 
still the case?

Reichart: you have me sold -- when is 'DevCon '08: Maui'?

Brock: Many thanks for the info. I'll have a look at that if it's 
available. I would like to use something similar myself.

I hope open source part is not GPL!

Pekr; At this stage of the game, I doubt anyone wants to risk losing
corporate involvement.  So I'll add a ditto, me too.

Well, if we can actually get enough interest in Maui, then I will 
get real about when is the best time.  Prob, plan it for when prices 
are cheapest for everyone.

If, I will add a holiday. Hence it really requires a long pre-planning 
phase.

In Germany, do you have a tax advantage (a write off) for travel 
expenses for such things as confrences?

I just looked at flight prices and it is like 1000 Euro just to get 
there :-(

whole Paris devcon would cost me half that price, if I would go ...

Yes, not cheap to do it in Maui.......................but still worth 
considering.  Paris is fun.................Maui is.............Amazing...........

Tax: Not if I stay two weeks ;-) But anyway... my tax accounting 
consultant should know a good trick. And how long is the flight? 
From Frankfurt to San Francisco it's 11h. And than another 6h?

Got my vote for Maui, off-peak airfare would be nice but is not essential. 
Yes as a tax write-off.

My vote is Sydney or Brisbane (Sydney easiest for air connections) 
due to the diversity of things to do there during the conference. 
 And maybe next year my project load won't be so heavy and rushed.

(Australia)

London would also be cool

my 2 cents worth

Maui hot, London cool ;-)

good comeback for a foreigner...;-)

Thanks :-)

Have to practise: I should be in London next year

Well, England anyway

Copenhagen! Anyone? :-)

It's a joy to see how great these Devcons are getting.  Such a great 
community in REBOL.  We could call these the REBOL world domination 
tours.

Copenhagen!  very awesome...I would love that.

We all need an injection of new technology every once in a while, 
so we don't otherwise go into withdrawal.

I just heard that Copenhagen was named the most boring city of Sweden 
:-)

Hmm, how about Arran?  Do you really want to trust a DevCon to the 
English? :P

I thought it was in Denmark....;-

LOL

My Danish friend told me so

I thought Americans were bad with geography.

It was elected as such in Sweden, on historical grounds :-)

Geography is like a fractal. Even if Americans would make an effort 
to know about it, there would be no hope zooming in

Arran, also a choice spot (seriously).  How could I have left it 
out?  (And while we're at it, let's give Ireland back to the Irish!)

http://www.copenhagen.com

I can't wait until I have time to watch every single Devcon video 
and absorb what all was presented.  Italy was fantastic last year. 
 One dose lasts me for a whole year.

Robert, fly to LA, stay at my LA place...enjoy LA, then fly to Maui 
(5 hours).  I tend to fly out in the morning, and arrive by noon 
in Maui.

Of note, I don't push hard for Maui because I live here, I push because 
I have traveled around the world, and I think YOU GUYS would have 
the most fun, do the most "different things" and collectively have 
a more rich experience.


Since Maui is a place of the sun…we would play in the day partially, 
and do the DevCon in the afternoon and evenings.  Everything would 
be done differently…it would be very cool.


Swim with turtles and dolphins and perhaps whales in the morning, 
learn about comparative languages and new programming tricks in the 
afternoon.  Eat the freshest fish you will every have for dinner, 
then enjoy a lecture outside in the warm air with the sky completely 
filled with stars you did not know were even there!