Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: " Personally I think we should make the GNOME User and Business sessions a separate conference this year and clearly mark it as such. Earlier years the user/business/government talks have mostly been an embarrassment in terms of attendance and I would rather ditch them from GUADEC, instead of wasting GUADEC resources on them. This year due to the co-hosting with IGC they might have a place, but I prefer to 'brand' them separately from GUADEC so that if next years GUADEC organizers are of the more traditional type we can either ditch the whole User and Business part or host is as a separate event somewhere else if there is enough interest.
Christian" I was part of the fundraising team for GUADEC when User Day and the government/business speakers were added. They were added in response to the fact that we were getting firm "no"s from potential sponsors. Those same companies came on board later on that year, as a result of us adding the enhanced User Day. These companies have come back as speakers in large part because of the bigger focus of GUADEC. To say that it's wasting money is not correct. The money's there because of the programming on User Day. Leslie _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
