Hello, I know that hackfest info are provided on Planet GNOME, but please make a proper blog on GNOME.org with such news. Keep people interested in whats going on.
- alex On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Alex G.S. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hackfests and summits are where a lot of our progress gets made. > > > Okay, so do you have any recommendations on how additional virtual events > could be added that complement these physical events? > > Please don't take this the wrong way I'm just trying to maximize > participation opportunities and make it easier to attend. For example it's > impossible for me to attend any events due to scheduling and such. So I > can only imagine that I'm not alone and that this problem exists for others. > > > > > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Matthias Clasen < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > There should only be a single physical conference, GUADEC most likely, >> that >> > is held every single year. But all other events should be virtual and >> > online. Engagement should get together and get a list of current events >> and >> > hackfest and begin the process of converting them to virtual events. >> > >> > Let me know what the team thinks... >> > >> >> I couldn't disagree more. >> >> Hackfests and summits are where a lot of our progress gets made. >> Getting enough interested people out of their daily routing and in a >> room together for one, two or three days enables the high-bandwidth >> communication that is needed to reach consensus around designs and >> direction. It also just plain fun, and keeps us together as a >> community of friends and not just a group of software developers who >> happen to work on the same piece of software. >> >> With my GTK+ maintainer hat on, the hackfest in Cambridge in April >> 2013 is almost solely responsible for the toolkit improvements in the >> last year. >> >> I do agree with is that we should strive to lower the barriers to >> online participation in development; a large part of that is just >> communication - publishing roadmaps, >> replying timely and constructively in bugzilla, reviewing patches, >> etc. But as much as we all like to think of ourselves as digital >> creatures, abandoning physical get-togethers is not going to help. >> >> Matthias >> > > > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list > >
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