On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM, john palmieri<john.j5.palmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
[snipping out parts of an well thought out response] > To sum it all up - fools rush in. We really need to take a step back and > really try to understand what we wish to accomplish in another co-located > event given the grand experiment of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. Given > that the polls were not overwhelmingly for or against (I would say they > pointed to a more moderate, "I had a good time so yay either way") we should > look at the no for next year as a middle ground also. It allows us to > discuss the pros and cons on the Foundation list without hamstringing > efforts to organize next years conference (we really need to start > organizing now). I would say it is very likely we will co-locate the > following year and even organize smaller events sooner than later. If we > want to do this right, we do it slowly and methodically. We don't rush in > because of an air of urgency due to impatience. Thank you for the detail in your response. I would say that it does make it a bit more clear than the numbers from the survey (which make sense now). /s -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list