T-DOSE past present and future.

[Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman@xxxxxx>]

T-DOSE past, present and future

T-DOSE 2006: past

The T-DOSE organisation wants to thank everybody who helped making its 
first event a success. We want to thank sponsors, volunteers, speakers 
and spectators for their support and attendance at the events location. 
It was a busy weekend with more then twenty speakers and about two 
hundred attendees. Pictures of T-DOSE 2006 can be found on Flickr 
(http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=T-DOSE), they are tagged with "T-DOSE".

On Saturday night speakers diner was on the agenda. After closing and 
cleaning up the conference location, all present headed for the Greek 
restaurant. The speakers diner turned out to be more a social event, 
since besides speakers also visitors attended the evening. It was a big 
success. The evening was sponsered by X-Tend.

The next day at the event a questioneer was conducted among the 
attendees. The general consensus was that talks and subjects were of 
good quality. Many found the Auditorium of the Technical University of 
Eindhoven a perfect place for this kind of events. Although the location 
is rather big for two hundered attendees. On the other side this also 
allows T-DOSE to grow in future.

Talks were held in English and in Dutch. In the questioneer people 
indicated that they prefered if all talks were held in English tonque. 
The rationale is that it would give T-DOSE a more international 
character which would match the quality of the talks and that a lot of 
speakers where not of Dutch origin.

T-DOSE 2007: Present and Future

The last months we wrapped up the finances and organisational issues for 
T-DOSE 2006 and started planning for T-DOSE 2007. We won't change much 
in the formula. There will still be speakers, conference rooms, 
developer rooms, an Open Source market, sponsors and wireless network. 
Again we will need volunteers and people to spread the word about T-DOSE 
2007.

What does change?

     * All talks will be held in English language.
     * New will be a social event on Saturday evening. Last years diner 
was so successfull that we decided to make this an official part of 
T-DOSE 2007.
     * The date: T-DOSE 2007 will be held on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 
october 2007

We, Jeroen and Jean-Paul, hope to see you all again on T-DOSE 2007. 
Bring along all your geek friends to make T-DOSE 2007 bigger and as much 
fun as last year.