Re: [guadec-list] Re: Barcelona report

2005-08-03 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 09:55 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Owen Taylor a écrit : GUADEC is our only general-audience conference ... while I'm sure that we could have an awesome event where the GNOME hackers get together and talk and hack for a few days or longer, I don't think GUADEC is

Re: Barcelona report

2005-08-03 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 17:48 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation GUADEC has been sustainable for six years and survived economic up and down cycles. GUADEC planning is a good place for discussing next year's conference model. ... with emergency sponsorship

Re: [guadec-list] Re: Barcelona report

2005-08-03 Thread Tim Ney
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 22:14 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: I'd also like some (or even one) real beginner talks to sell GNOME to complete newbies, telling people what GNOME is, what it looks/feels like, and what it can do. It would be useful to have such a talk with slides and an outline that

Re: [guadec-list] Re: Barcelona report

2005-08-03 Thread Murray Cumming
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 16:22 -0400, Tim Ney wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 22:14 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: I'd also like some (or even one) real beginner talks to sell GNOME to complete newbies, telling people what GNOME is, what it looks/feels like, and what it can do. It would be

Re: [guadec-list] Re: Barcelona report

2005-08-03 Thread Tim Ney
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 22:33 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: telling people what GNOME is, what it looks/feels like, and what it can do. It would be useful to have such a talk with slides and an outline that could be localized by others The in-progress (stalled a bit by

Re: [guadec-list] Re: Barcelona report

2005-08-02 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 17:53 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller At least one reason... there were a number of things that didn't work well in Stuttgart that need to be fixed. We once again had too many parallel sessions, too much stuff on the schedule,

Re: [guadec-list] Re: Barcelona report

2005-08-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Quim Gil I'm sure we can find activities for all of them. *snip* - all the ideas in your email are awesome. :-) - Jeff -- OSCON 2005: August 1st-5th http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/ I'm just mucking round down the shallow end of the literary pool, I

Re: [guadec-list] Re: Barcelona report

2005-08-01 Thread Murray Cumming
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 18:58 +0200, David Neary wrote: Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: Time for a wiki page then? I'd be happier if someone would summaries this thread, including the bit on foundation-list (why did that drop off the CC?), and perhaps we could start with a provisional plan

Re: [guadec-list] Re: Barcelona report

2005-08-01 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 18:58 +0200, David Neary wrote: Hi, Murray Cumming wrote: Time for a wiki page then? I'd be happier if someone would summaries this thread, including the bit on foundation-list (why did that drop off the CC?), and perhaps we could start with a provisional plan

Re: [guadec-list] Re: Barcelona report

2005-07-30 Thread David Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: Apparently (to be confirmed) what was said in Barcelona was that GUADEC would go from Saturday to Wednesday, and the IGC from Tuesday to Friday. This means that actually the GUADEC shouls share facilities with the IGC just one day. Aren't Tuesday and Wednesday 2 days? I

Re: Barcelona report

2005-07-29 Thread Murray Cumming
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 14:24 -0400, Tim Ney wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:26 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: So this doesn't look like the cheap conference that I originally thought it might be. What's changed? What are the costs involved? On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 09:58 +0200, Christian Fredrik

Re: Barcelona report

2005-07-29 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 09:46 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Glynn Foster a écrit : 25 May, Thu. People start arriving 26 May, Fri. Social day for all GNOME people - bbq, beers, activities 27 May, Sat. GUADEC Developer Day 1 28 May, Sun. GUADEC Developer Day 2 29 May, Mon IGC -+ 30

Re: Barcelona report

2005-07-29 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 15:38 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 14:27 +0200, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 09:04 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 14:24 -0400, Tim Ney wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:26 +1200, Glynn

Re: Barcelona report

2005-07-29 Thread David Neary
Hi Leslie, Leslie Proctor wrote: I was part of the fundraising team for GUADEC when User Day and the government/business speakers were added. They were added in response to the fact that we were getting firm nos from potential sponsors. Those same companies came on board later on that year,

Re: Barcelona report

2005-07-29 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, We should be working on integrating business and government, and integrating them into our community. As it is, GUADE User day is considered a wash-out by both presenters and attendees. The only people attracted by User Day as it is are sponsors. I would prefer spreading user day

Re: Barcelona report

2005-07-29 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, I do not want a repeat of the unexpected and/or unexpectedly high costs that we had in Stuttgart, so let's keep this simple and stick to the free rooms that have existing equipment. I think that's my initial concern - from the report, it seemed like there wasn't any, and that we would

Re: Barcelona report

2005-07-29 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Leslie Proctor I was part of the fundraising team for GUADEC when User Day and the government/business speakers were added. They were added in response to the fact that we were getting firm nos from potential sponsors. Those same companies came on board later on that year, as a

Re: Barcelona report

2005-07-28 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, 25 May, Thu. People start arriving 26 May, Fri. Social day for all GNOME people - bbq, beers, activities 27 May, Sat. GUADEC Developer Day 1 28 May, Sun. GUADEC Developer Day 2 29 May, Mon IGC -+ 30 May, Tue IGC | - GNOME User and Business Sessions - everything from 31 May,