Lessons From Linux: How to Foster Collaboration at Meetings and Conferences (BizBash)
BizBash talks with Linux Foundation conference organization maven Angela Brown about how she puts together events like LinuxCon. "At larger conferences, the foundation will often host a number of smaller related events for different communities within the schedule of the overall event. A smaller event might be a one-day seminar focused on a specific platform, or a hackathon related to a project. "It allows people to rally around a common goal or project they're working on," Brown says. "All of a sudden this 1,500-person conference becomes 100 people collaborating." The foundation might incorporate a lunch for women—often an underrepresented group in tech circles—to meet and network.

Likewise, for a party during LinuxCon this month, Brown chose the House of Blues, partly because it has a number of smaller rooms to break up the party into smaller groups of attendees, who will walk to the venue in their own Mardi Gras-style parade."