[Sigia-l] DUX2003

[Peter Merholz]

> Ah, the beauty of conference-wide WIFI...  Bob Baxley just gave a good talk
> too.  So far DUX is somewhat reminiscent of the first IA Summit (Boston,
> April 2001): 

2000.

> So more questions for the next Summit's program committee:  should a goal be
> to ensure that a diverse audience attends?  How might this be done?  Should
> the next Summit be advertised in other communities?  Should other
> organizations be invited co-sponsor?

I think "most definitely not."

DUX is designed to meet the need for having 'diverse audience' conferences.

But, we still need specific professional community audiences, and the IA
Summit is a great forum for information architects to get together and talk
about information architecture. There is *no other* venue for that.

Conferences need to be very careful about wanting to be all things to all
people. 

I do think that we should continue to find non-IAs to play particular roles
at the IA Summit, like we had Stewart Brand give the keynote, and Mark
Bernstein's contribution was invaluable. But I strongly feel that the IA
summit should *not* be a general user experience conference.

--peter