On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 09:55 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Owen Taylor a écrit : > > 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) > > One of the things that became obvious this year is that GUADEC does not > have enough time to be all things to all people. We have a core audience > of hackers, contributors and enthusiasts which we should cater to in > priority. > > You say that GUADEC is a general-audience conference - but did we have > substantial attendance from local business, LUGs, universities, > politicians? There were some talks oriented that way, but they were > poorly attended because the audience they were intended for wasn't there > in numbers.
I think when Owen said 'general audience' he meant it in terms of non-core GNOME hackers, not necessarily 'civilians' :). The way we setup up GUADEC in Stuttgart worked well in that regard that we had a good selection of technical talks about GNOME technologies, but also about related technologies which I think are just as important. I know there where people at GUADEC who came not because of the 'GNOME' stuff but because of the multimedia and X/freedesktop related talks. These are the kind of people we want to make part of the wider GNOME community, increasing their interest in GNOME in order for them to have a higher motivation to make sure whatever they are coding works well with GNOME and integrates well with related GNOME technologies. For instance the GStreamer community have a much closer relationship with the Xiph.org community due to what happened during GUADEC in Stuttgart. What I worry about is that if we cut heavily down on the number of talks we end up with just a few talks on core GNOME technologies/issues and loose this ability to pull other groups and developers closer to GNOME. Christian > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
