Please do update the page. It's a wiki and I don't feel I own the page. In fact, my thoughts were off-the-cuff, and you probably have some deeper background to offer.
I wrote to four other people who are prominent in open source, and a couple offered to tell their contacts and spread the word further. None of them offered to come. Stormy Peters, for instance, will ask the GNOME community to participate. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank B. Brokken" <[email protected]> To: "Andy Oram" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 8:59:32 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Tracks and Track Coordinators for Debconf 10 Dear Andy Oram, you wrote: > > > I'm finding it surprisingly hard to find speakers for the Debian Community > Outreach track. > ... > Meanwhile, I did create a page for the track. > > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Outreach Nice page. I'm considering adding some remarks about the Open Source status in Europe/the Netherlands which, imho, would broaden its scope somewhat. Since you started this page I thought it best to coordinate that with you: any objections against me working on that page as well? Maybe it's understandable that its hard to find people for the DCO track. I've looked around a bit myself and although I generally get favorable reactions to the concept of organizing a DCO track, people find it much more difficult to commit themselves to Debconf 10. Of course, my immediate environment is not next-door to NYC, which makes it a lot harder for people to go there `just for the DCO track'. Which I fully understand. So, what if we just work on that Wiki page for the coming period and in the meantime leisurely try to interest people in attending Debconf 10? Let's assume we don't find external people to come to the conference just for the DCO track. Then we could always put up some posters at the conference inviting people to make themselves known to us if they're interested in actively participating in the DCO track. I would be amazed if we couldn't entice at least some interesting people at the conference to join. My guess is that once people are there and in a `Debian mood' they may be more willing to participate than otherwise. Any thoughts? -- Frank B. Brokken Center for Information Technology, University of Groningen (+31) 50 363 9281 Public PGP key: http://pgp.surfnet.nl Key Fingerprint: DF32 13DE B156 7732 E65E 3B4D 7DB2 A8BE EAE4 D8AA -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Oram O'Reilly Media email: [email protected] Editor 10 Fawcett Street, Fourth Floor voice: 617-499-7479 Cambridge, MA 02138-1175, USA fax: 617-661-1116 identi.ca/twitter:praxagora http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
