On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:52:41AM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Wouter Verhelst schrieb am Sonntag, den 29. Oktober 2006: > > > Hi, > > > > The FOSDEM organizers have asked me whether we'd be okay with sharing a > > Developer's room together with the people from Ubuntu. > *snip* > > > Opinions? > I don't see any reason for that, in my oppinion ubuntu is not nearer to > debian than xandros, knoppix or any other derivate. So why share with them > and not with others?
Most likely because there is no significant xandros or knoppix community that would ask for a devroom, though obviously I can only guess as to why. > Also I don't want to create the impression that debian > has much to do with ubuntu, which is in fact not the case. Additionally the > userbase is different. If I decide to do a debian talk I don't want to answer > ubuntu question, I don't know anything about ubuntu and I don't want to > (thats not an offense, just a fact, as I don't care for xandros or knoppix). > Also the debian room was pretty crowded last times, This is not entirely true; I've spent all the time in the Debian devroom last year and the year before; and while it is correct that during the more popular talks the devrooms were indeed crowded, there were also other moments when there was almost noone. OTOH... > with the release of etch (hopefully) this will even be much worser > next time and to have an additional group of users won't help. ...this might be right. > Hmm thats most of my reasons I tried to leave my personal stuff out of > that, if somebody is offended I'm sorry. Why should you be sorry? I did ask for your opinion :) -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
