El mié, 23-04-2008 a las 23:07 +0200, Johannes Schmid escribió: > Hi everyone! > > Sorry, to step into this discussion, but I would really like to point > out that every part of the world may have a gnome conference, even an > important or *the* GNOME conference. But why can we keep GUADEC the > "european" conference? > > If you want to do a GUAD*C at any other place of the world, I am fully > ok with that but let's keep one GNOME conference in europe as there is a > huge community there.
hm... things I don't understand: - GUADEC must stay in Europe, but it's publicized as "*The* GNOME Conference". - GUADEC location is decided by the GNOME Foundation Board. AFAIK, no other regional conference has such an involvement from the board. - etc. So, considering the importance of GUADEC for the project, I don't believe it's fair for the rest of the world to say that GUADEC should stay in Europe forever, even with all the practical advantages this has. What I would like to see is proposals to host GUADEC in other places of the world to be considered. There may be a bias to prefer European locations because it's more practical, that seems reasonable; but at some point someone could appear with an amazing proposal at a great non-european location that would make everyone say "wow.. we have to do it there!". I currently don't like the fact that no one can even consider working in such a proposal. And let's face it, we'll have this discussion each year, again and again. Let GUADEC evolve :-) Claudio -- Claudio Saavedra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
