Cool Sri wish you the best of luck with Las GNOME. My post GUADEC blog post is now available as well btw http://opropst.se/guadec-2016-a-nice-experience/
*post it here as I'm not on Planet GNOME. On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, I thought I posted it on this mailing list.. > > Here it is again: > > Returned from GUADEC and again it was a wonderful time. Big kudos to the > organizing team putting together a great conference! For me to meet > everyone is such a adrenaline rush, and I always feel so pumped when I come > back. > > Speaking of conferences, I spent a lot of time volunteering to understand > the mechanics of running a local conference since you know, I have one of > my own that is coming up in a few short weeks. Libre Application Summit > presented by GNOME or LAS GNOME conference. > > To say that starting a new conference with a new purpose is hard is an > understatement. It is incredibly difficult to put a formal conference > together. We did West Coast Summit for two years to make sure that this > conference idea works. Huge kudos to openSUSE for giving the initial > funding for this conference and taking a chance on my idea and vision of > where I wanted to take this conference. I will say the same for the board > as well for enthusiastically embracing LAS GNOME and the concepts behind it. > > We live in a world of changing demographics and as a project we need to > adapt to them. LAS GNOME is an attempt to show the world that desktops > matter in this new world of containers, cloud, and consumer devices. No > longer will we placidly write software and release them, but instead we are > going to lead. With nearly 20 years of experience writing desktop software > and plumbing, we are at parity with Windows and OSX. > > LAS GNOME has two main goals - 1) Outreach to companies, government, and > organizations and build relationships with them and have them guide our > efforts in building an application market based on the Linux kernel. 2) > Outreach internally to the kernel, userspace maintainers, and existing > application organizations like Mozilla and Open Document Foundation and > help improve the application story by improving the OS and creating the > kind of conditions that would create a measurable application market for > devices running the Linux kernel. > > Here is the thing - people, companies and organizations should know about > desktop projects. We are the user space engineers of the Linux operating > system. KDE created khtml which turned into WebKit and is now Blink and > now one of the most popular webapp framework today. GNOME's influence can > be seen in dbus, systemd, logind, gstreamer, pulseaudio and various other > core pieces of userspace. See http://www.gnome.org/technologies. Moving > forward, flatpak is here and that too will have influence on how we think > of applications today. The fact of the matter is, anything that gets put > forth on a desktop project is going to be in every Linux based operating > system out there. Nobody has more clout than we (desktop projects) do in > what goes into a distribution. Do not underestimate our worth. > > LAS GNOME will be in Portland, Oregon - Sept 19-23rd at the Eliot Center. > The schedule is finalized except some tweaks here and there and now working > on some great BoFs on open source marketing, linux graphics drivers, > OpenQA/OBS, flatpak enabling/workshop, and hopefully a string of others on > in the plans. Companies and individuals can expect a week of being able to > talk with everyone across the Linux eco-system and understand how to get > started in a single place. > > I also want to thank everyone who have been working so hard on this > conference. We've overcome so many obstacles and continue to overcome them > as they arrive. > > Finally, I want to thank the Foundation for sponsoring me to GUADEC and > allowing me to network with my community about LAS GNOME. > > <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/sri/files/2016/08/sponsored- > badge-simple.png"><img src="https://blogs.gnome.org/ > sri/files/2016/08/sponsored-badge-simple.png" alt="sponsored by GNOME > Foundation" width="213" height="213" class="alignnone size-full > wp-image-126" /></a> > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 2:39 PM Emel Elvin Yıldız < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Which blog post you are talking about? >> >> --Elvin >> >> On 1 September 2016 at 00:25, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> What did people think of my blog post? Okay to send out? >>> >>> sri >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> engagement-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list > > -- -mvh Oliver Propst
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