On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 10:05 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: > I don't think we should eliminate the enterprise or government outreach > aspects of GUADEC - think how important deployments like Extremadura > have been (or should have been). However I think we should focus that > outreach to take advantage of our strengths. > > In that way, enterprises and/or governments with interest in "the Free > Desktop" will know that GUADEC is the place to go for specific, targeted > discussions of issues of interest to them, from a highly technical and > expert perspective.
There is proof in the pudding of just that - Extremadura, for example, sending nearly 20 people to Dublin to learn more, so when they could go home and implement. > The fact that GUADEC is full of technically astute > hackers _including the core platform developers_ is something few > conferences can offer. True - GUADEC's core competency. On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:34 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > a large portion of the attendees were either completely uninterested > in the first two days, or completely uninterested in the 3rd. The evaluation forms submitted stated did not state that. Owen, jrb and I have tabulated the GUADEC evaluation forms to publish soon. > If it's outreach, who are we reaching out to? Certainly people like the those at GUADEC 6 who wrote: "I've only been a recent GNOME user, but this conference has made me really enthusiastic about becoming a part of it." "Coming from the German administration, I am aware of the fact that I have been "OSS-socialized" within a KDE environment. Therefore, it was very interesting for me to get to now some faces and aspects of a different community." tim _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
