FWIW... On 6/13/07, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Paul Cooper wrote: > > * People aren't exactly falling over themselves to host and organise these > > things > > Agree - while we constantly pitch that organizing GUADEC can be an amazingly > rewarding experience, the stress that we see the team going through (and > people > putting them through) isn't an encouragement. It's pretty much a full time job > for a few months. > > I'd *love* to get to the stage where we could outsource the conference, but > the > last time we did that and outsourced an expo day, it was a bit of a disaster. > Financially we're probably not in the position to do this either if people are > expecting the conference to be free.
This combined conference topic was brought up at DAM-4 last week in the Desktop Organization Panel session with jrb and I in the panel from GNOME and Lars and George (don't remember the last names) from KDE. When both sides mentioned that the logistics of such an event seemed quite difficult, someone pointed out that helping with this kind of collaboration is one of the reasons for the existence of the Linux Foundation. So, there may well be additional organizational resources available. (Unfortunately, I didn't feel like there was much other feedback from the DAM conference this time, not even some listing of pain areas from others where we could improve. At least last time the LTSP folk told us about some gconf issues, which jrb handled.) _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
