SMWCon Spring 2014/Community discussion

It is traditional to have a community discussion at the end of each SMWCon. This page has the protocol/notes from the discussion at SMWCon Spring 2014.

SMWCon

 * Note: upcoming post-conference survey on SMWCon Spring 2014
 * Timing? Days of the week? (no conclusions)

The following suggestions have been made by the audience:
 * Maybe finish earlier on last day and use tutorial day time instead for main conference
 * Try to facilitate breakout sessions/birds-of-a-feather discussions among participants
 * How can we produce more content/insights at the event? "Harvest".
 * Invite people who run WotMs
 * Lightning talks on real-world examples of specific SMW extensions/features
 * Themed sessions; organise talks by topics
 * Announce topics of interest to suggest contributions
 * Gather topics of interest during registration or on user pages
 * Maybe consider colocation with other events (no conclusion on which events these could be)

Tutorial day

 * Maybe reduce number of very basic tutorials
 * Try to add more specific topics? (no specific suggestions on topics)
 * Unconference/informal space for questions
 * Include topics that go beyond SMW, such as RDF?

Community work, outreach

 * Build up knowledge repository for best practices on (S)MW usage
 * Suggestion: Organise SMWCon talks by topic for people to look up
 * Send people to conferences to present SMW?
 * -> need to clarify which conferences these would be