On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:29 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > Also as far as I know there wasn't any non-userday tracks that where > > > consistently lacking participants, rather the opposite. > > > > Yes, they were very successful. We had an awesome line-up of talks! However, > > the view David is putting forward is not based on whether that model can be > > successful, it's whether we want to pursue that model at all... Is GUADEC > > meant to be a bunch of talks, or is it meant to be a whole lotta discussion > > and hacking? > > GUADEC is our only general-audience conference ... while I'm sure that > we could have an awesome event where the GNOME hackers get together and > talk and hack for a few days or longer, I don't think GUADEC is *just* > about this. (The Boston GNOME summit, by contrast, is designed as purely > a hacker get-together) > > Hacking sessions and detailed planning sessions aren't that interesting > to a general audience ... even an intensely technical general audience. > > I think we should expect that with the strong GNOME user community in > Spain we'll get even more people who are coming in, not interested > in say, whether we should ship gnome-sm-proxy in the next release, > but in getting a high-level picture of new and upcoming features > and technologies. In learning about where to start developing with > GNOME. In learning how to use GNOME in advanced ways. > both things can be parallel, with one room or two for general audience talks, and smaller rooms for planning sessions. I think both are compatible, and make both kind of people attending (general, hackers) take good advantage of GUADEC. -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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