Pr, 2005 09 05 22:13 +0200, David Neary rašė: > 1. There is no link to GNOME in the name, or to being a conference
It is. As we all know, G in 'GUADEC' stands for GNOME, and C is for conference. > 2. No-one knows what it means, which means the first question people ask > isn't "when is it?" or "where is it?" or "who's going?" it's "what does > it mean?" The same can be said about any other event out there. If were not familiar with particular a product and/or community, I would ask the same: what does it mean? ApacheCon, what is that? A conference of native americans, huh? DefCon. what the hell is this? XConf, why isn't it called YConf? Let me give a situation from a daily life. Lets say I'm walking in a street and see a poster with text "Slipknot Tour". There are the following options I may choose: o I don't know what Slipknot is, it doesn't attract my attention o I heard something about it, I take a look at it, maybe o I know what Slipknot is, I definitely stop by the poster read all the info written and consider attending to a concert o I am a fan of Slipknot, ah.. that's old info, I know *every* news about it, I have booked tickets 4 months in advance What I want to say, is that if I don't know what Foo is, I don't know what FooConf or whatever is, as well, no matter whether You call it FooFoo, FooBar, or FConf. But if I care about Foo more, I *would* certainly know what is FooBar, moreover if I really want to get involved in it, I would know everything about FooBar (and I would be very angry to see my favourite band to change its name). Name doesn't make any difference, experience with a product does. > 3. It sucks. A personal taste, I have mine different from yours. > 4. Do we really want to limit it to Europe? This is the argument. See Bills mail about E and W in "GUADEC". :-) > 5. We have a great new name. See above. P.S. I don't like neither death metal, nor Slipknot. :) _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list