Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Joseph Carter's letter: > On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 09:35:50AM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > > > > Is this idea worth pursuing? > > > > > > It's a neat idea, and I'd sure like to meet my fellow Debianers, but > > > I doubt you'll get anybody to pay for it. > > > > What about Corel? They're getting a /lot/ from Debian (basing their dist > > on it), and while I'm sure they're contributing back to Debian, sponsoring > > such an event would be a wonderful gesture on their part. > > If it costs quite as much as it sounds like it's going to, it would > probably be unreasonable to ask any one source to sponsor the whole thing. > It might be interesting if they wanted to help sponsor it---and perhaps > send a couple of their linux people to the thing as well..
Having a big convention would be really awfull, but it's difficult to get sponsors and much more difficult to gather developers from all over the world. What about a series of smaller conferences? We can have Debian Europe, Debian America (North and South?), Debian Australasia, etc... My 0.02e, Federico -- Federico Di Gregorio [http://www.bolinando.com/fog] {Friend of Penguins} Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I stick my neck out for nobody. -- Humphrey Bogart, "Casablanca"