I think key to your query is the number of people helping in the organization of the event. Without volunteers and peers, it would be difficult to pull off multi-organ events. If it's the first event, I would suggest making it simple but with a focused agenda and highly targeted audience. That I believe is key on building the community.

My 2 cents :-)

Jerome G.

On Oct 3, 2014 8:12 AM, "Frans Thamura" <frans@meruvian.org> wrote:
how many rooms are best for OpenStack Day?

because OpenStack Meet Up only 1 room with 2-3 hours with 2 topics

I think a conference like, with 1 keynotes, 5 session paralel

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On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Marton Kiss <marton.kiss@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Frans,
>
> We used to organise a yearly one-day event, called OpenStack CEE Day in
> Central Europe. The budget calculation really depends on you. If you know
> that visitors can afford a ticket, and you don't want to create a free
> event, you can share the costs between sponsors and attendees. So as I
> remember we had the following spendings for the event:
> - venue rental
> - wifi access
> - food / cafe
> - utilities: laptops / desks / projectors
> - badges
> - optionally vip room for speakers or a press room with drinks and snacks
> - promotion / marketing
> - rollup banners, etc.
>
> The hardest thing is to estimate how much people can attend the event, and
> how much ticket you can give away (or sell). We applied a minimal fee for
> the tickets, because it is a Central European cultural behaviour if you pay
> for something, it have a higher chance to visit the event.
>
> Cheers,
>   Marton
>
> 2014-10-02 16:15 GMT+02:00 Frans Thamura <frans@meruvian.org>:
>>
>> hi all
>>
>> wanna raise up this question
>>
>> i need to secure budget esp for next year, to several vendor, esp HP
>>
>> any idea for the budget calculation?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Shadow Master and Lead Investor
>> Meruvian.
>> Integrated Hypermedia Java Solution Provider.
>>
>> Mobile: +628557888699
>> Blog: http://blogs.mervpolis.com/roller/flatburger (id)
>>
>> FB: http://www.facebook.com/meruvian
>> TW: http://www.twitter.com/meruvian / @meruvian
>> Website: http://www.meruvian.org
>>
>> "We grow because we share the same belief."
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Akihiro Hasegawa
>> <hasegawa@bit-isle.co.jp> wrote:
>> > Hi Frans,
>> >
>> > In Japan , we have an annual OpenStack local event , names OpenStack
>> > Days Tokyo.
>> > This year we got "30" sponsors and "1100+" attendees.
>> > You can see the detail of this event on this page.
>> >
>> > =Web page=
>> > http://www.openstackdays.com/en/
>> >
>> > =Event report =
>> > http://www.openstackdays.com/files/OSDT2014report_en.pdf
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Akihiro
>> >
>> > On 2014/09/17, at 5:59, Frans Thamura wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi all
>> >>
>> >> the ecosystem here in Indonesia, just starting hot with OpenStack
>> >>
>> >> but as usually user group will become threat as enemy or friend.
>> >>
>> >> next week first openstack event by RedHat,
>> >>
>> >> next october will be Quanta with Canonical ( I am part of, so OSUG
>> >> Indonesia part of them also)
>> >>
>> >> and soon Helion from HP.
>> >>
>> >> sadly PowerVM (Openstack kernel on Power processor in iSeries), still
>> >> dont want to call it openstack :)
>> >>
>> >> there are new bundle event from Intel with Redhat regarding Swift
>> >>
>> >> and an offer from ceph to bundle also. still in progress
>> >>
>> >> right now, i am bring them to the OpenStack Day, because I want to
>> >> make them as speaker, sponsor.
>> >>
>> >> but several love to have their own event, rather collaborate with
>> >> OpenStack User Group
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> right now we are discussion content with Quanta, Inspur, Canonical, HP
>> >> regrading topic, but I think only Quanta, inspur, canonical .. HP ,
>> >> Dell still dont know, how to step in this cloud movement .
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> any tips all?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> can I have all you OpenStack Day activities this year, from every
>> >> country, plz give me your URL, proposal or pic gallery
>> >>
>> >> thx
>> >>
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