Of course, people who intend to speak can add their talk on a wiki,
this helps bring in the audience.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Pieter Hintjens <ph@???> wrote:
> I've organized a lot of conferences small and large. The very best,
> and least hassle, was a ZeroMQ unconf we did in Portland. All we need
> is a large room and people. Here's how it works:
>
> - anyone can speak
> - there's a queue of speakers (a row of chairs)
> - a speaker gets 15 minutes (you could cut this to 5 minutes if you
> wanted to be brutal) to give the short story
> - the audience votes by IRC +1 if they want to hear more
> - the speaker gets additional 5 minute slots until the moderator gets bored
> - it's all recorded on video and published
>
> No registration, no organization except technical (room, WiFi, food &
> drink, video). Some funding or sponsorship for the room, usually.
>
> I'd be happy to organize something like this in Brussels.
>
> -Pieter
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Amir Taaki <genjix@???> wrote:
>> >> no time really to be organising conferences. doing them is super
>> stressful and i don't really feel like it pays off compared to just
>> writing code and making kickass projects or working spaces.
>>
>> On 16/10/13 12:15, Jaromil wrote:
>>
>>
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> Pieter Hintjens
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> Founder of ZeroMQ community
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