Stefano Maffulli wrote: > Nik, > > I guess you have received the answer of the organizer of the conference > in Italian already.
Yes, I did. They told me I should have not raised this matters publicly, among other things. > To summarize for the rest of the list, the conference being organized is > a 3 days event: 2 days are used by a scientific conference, I did not get answers to this, so I need to ask it again: *why* does a free software conference need to limit itself to a scientific and academic approach? Is there any publicly available record of the discussion that produced such a decision? > the rest of the time will be dedicated to the Italian wider community > and a Fellowship meeting. You are welcome to participate to any part of > the conference you prefer, nobody wants to exclude you from sharing your > experience as free software developer I did not intend to imply anything of the sort; I'm only trying to understand the situation. > and I'm sure that in the 3 days there will be time for this to happen. Yes, at least I could take part in the Fellowship meeting, even if I'm a rather fresh one. ;-) -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Secrecy prevents people from accurately assessing their own risk. Secrecy precludes public debate about security, and inhibits security education that leads to improvements. Secrecy doesn't improve security; it stifles it. -- Bruce Schneier, February 2007 _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
