Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-14 Thread Quim Gil
Let's be very clear- we have a conference for hackers that interests several hundred people, and we have a separate conference for business and government that interests dozens, and there is very little overlap between those two groups. I'm not clear why we continue to insist that they be

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-12 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 00:11 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: On 9/8/05, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:34 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: a large portion of the attendees were either completely uninterested in the first two days, or completely

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-12 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 00:19 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: For 1/2 the cost, we could run summit-style (low-cost, high-fun) events on every continent (including a big one in Europe as the 'mother ship'), and for 1/4 the cost, we could send a handful of GNOME community leaders to every major

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-11 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/8/05, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:34 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: a large portion of the attendees were either completely uninterested in the first two days, or completely uninterested in the 3rd. The evaluation forms submitted stated did

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-11 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/8/05, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation a écrit : On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 16:05 +0200, Quim Gil wrote: For some the GUADEC is an opportunity to meet, for others is a way to get new contributors, for others is a way to get some money for the Foundation,

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-08 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation a écrit : On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 16:05 +0200, Quim Gil wrote: For some the GUADEC is an opportunity to meet, for others is a way to get new contributors, for others is a way to get some money for the Foundation, for others is a way to enhance a common vision of

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-08 Thread Bill Haneman
I don't think we should eliminate the enterprise or government outreach aspects of GUADEC - think how important deployments like Extremadura have been (or should have been). However I think we should focus that outreach to take advantage of our strengths. In that way, enterprises and/or

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-08 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 10:05 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: I don't think we should eliminate the enterprise or government outreach aspects of GUADEC - think how important deployments like Extremadura have been (or should have been). However I think we should focus that outreach to take

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-07 Thread Quim Gil
Deciding what GUADEC is for is harder. Changing the name should be easy. As you see is not that easy. :) Also, what is most important about a change is not the fact of being easy or harder, but being useful and worth to change. I don't think it's worth deciding a change for GUADEC's name

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-07 Thread Quim Gil
That's a fair summary of what the board has discussed, as recently as June. Jonathan Blandford once termed GUADEC as GNOME's mothership, an annual place to meet and recharge batteries. This is an insiders' point of view and this is possibly a reason why the GUADEC satisfy generally insiders