On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Brian Cameron <brian.came...@oracle.com>wrote:
> > Over the years, GNOME community events have grown in frequency, size > and the expectations of hosting professional quality events. It is a > challenge for a volunteer community to keep up with consistently year > after year. Currently, events tend to be planned in isolation and > there is too much reinventing of wheels. GUADEC planning, for example, > tends to mostly be done by the team who won the bid, and their ability > to put together a good event does vary quite a bit from year to year. > Fortunately, the 2012 GUADEC Planning team does seem to be in good > shape, so this is one upcoming event that I am not so concerned about. > > So, speaking as someone who was part of an organizing committee for Plumbers. Linux foundation knows how to do conferences, and do them professionally. How about co-location with a Linux Foundation conference? For instance, having Plumbers conference with a desktop conference would be quite interesting I think considering the direction we are moving towards. A vertical platform, this might be more interesting. Something else to consider when thinking about Boston Summit. > > That said, I do think that the last Desktop Summit event suffered from > a general lack of participation on the GNOME side of things. When we > were unable to find a sponsor for GNOME social events, alternatives > were not organized, for example. GNOME was unable to find resources to > help with infrastructure issues, such as identify management or helping > to setup a registration system (a longstanding problem we seem to have > year after year). More seriously, a event like the Desktop Summit > should inspire collaborative work and there did not seem to be enough > effort in terms of planning concrete collaborative activities. If we > are to hold Desktop Summits in the future, I think we need to focus > more energy in these areas to make them successful. > > There are several things that we can learn from Linux Foundation on how to run conferences. My overall feeling is that we're moving towards a platform based end state that doesn't really mix that well with other desktop projects. I think there are definitely some cross work at the lower layers that we can work on but it seems that there should be a "freedesktop.org" conference or some such, not a GNOME/KDE. Shouldn't those folks step up and do something like that? My two cents. sri
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