Conference planning 101
It's been a busy 2½ years helping out first with OSDC (Open Source Developers Conference) and then immediately jumping in to helping run lca2015 (Linux Conf Australia). Looks like another may be en route as well... watch this space... Whilst it's very rewarding helping to run a conference, there are also some traps for new players that I've learned about on the way. Luckily the first conference was a lot smaller than the second, so the lessons learned weren't quite so brutal as they could have been if they were discovered during lca2015. These pitfalls can be especially hard on those with certain mental illnesses and anxiety disorders, so I've come up with a top 10 list of how to protect your head space when helping to organise a conference. Make sure you have a 2IC/team for anything you're working on so that if you need to, you can take a month or two out without any feelings of worry or guilt. Remember to keep in touch with the team though so that