Hi Cor,
Thanks for your mail.
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 20:35 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote:
>>> - if you can only afford to go to one conference (money, time,
>>> spousal -patience / whatever); go to OOoCon.
>
> .. but here I would have expected: "choose the great multi-international
> event in Beijing, whenever possible. And if money is a problem, look at
> the special offers. If you have more time and interests, don't miss ...
As you like, I believe the wiki is editable still ;-) The fact
remains that, wonderful as Beijing will be for those that can attend,
we will not be able to get our whole team there (as in years before)
due to travel budget issues. Perhaps that will make Charles happy :-)
it will clearly rock for our Chinese OO.o hackers, whom I'm looking
forward to meeting in the flesh; if I can afford the travel myself.
> I'm not aware (my fault) of guide lines for RegiCons. But I expect
> it to be rather low level to set up. So why not try to do some
> extra's and make a RegiCon of the Go-OOo event?
Glad it's not just me that's not fully au-fait withthe RegiCon concept,
your idea & question is a fair one, let me answer it briefly:
> IMO it's great if the Novell OOo team organizes an event and others
> feel free to join and enjoy. I wouldn't understand why there should
> be X- of Y-only events :-)
Why ? because I want to focus our resources on an under-represented
minority in the OO.o community: developers. Why ? because I want them to
meet their peers, build strong relationships with them & have fun, that
way they'll contribute more to OO.o, more effectively & make it better.
Why ? because I believe that also including hundreds of non-hackers,
inevitably dilutes the quality of technical discussion & networking.
Why ? because we only have so much time to organise a developers
conference for smaller numbers of people.
Clearly, encouraging developers to get to know each other, learn more
about & enjoy working together on OO.o can (somehow) be twisted into a
conspiracy to hurt the project - but that is emphatically not our
intention.
HTH,
Michael.
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