XDC 2018 feedback

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 10/ 5/18 07:12 AM, Ian Romanick wrote:
> 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.

When we held it at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, we
explicitly invited students to attend the sessions, and had a special panel
just for them on Open Source Development that seemed to be well received:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTg3NQ

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