XDC 2018 feedback

[Ian Romanick]

On 10/02/2018 12:00 AM, Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez wrote:
> On 01/10/18 23:30, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> Holding the event at UDC interactions between the university students and our 
>> community. During the closing session we have been told that around 30 
>> students attended talks, and I believe that in itself is a nice achievement as 
>> all interactions with the academic world are beneficial for both sides.
> 
> Part of that success is that an introductory talk on Mesa took place two
> weeks before the conference in the Computer Science Faculty. We had ~20
> attendees there. This is something we should repeat in future years too,
> maybe including talks on other parts of the graphics stack too.

That is a really good idea.  "Marketing to technical people." ;)  XDC
has been held at universities before, and there's usually some "wander
in" students.  30 is almost certainly more than the average.

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