At Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:16:12 +0200, John Darrington wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 07:55:15AM +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > At Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:59:44 +0200, > Ludovic Court??s wrote: > > Luca Saiu <[email protected]> skribis: > > > I think it would be nice to have a tentative "program" very early, > which > > > might help attract more people, bringing in yet more ideas. > > > > It seems there are relatively few GNU hackers on this list. In my > > experience, attracting more people involves spending time contacting > > possible speakers personally or through their project???s mailing list. > > I took Ludo's advice last year and most people said no. So, you need > to start early and really contact a lot of people. > > Right on. > > But the problem is, we never decide where, when or even *if* the GHM takes > place > until rather shortly before the event. Consequently most people cannot make > any > definite plans.
That's not true. We knew at GHM 2011 that GHM 2012 would take place in Düsseldorf. I began contacting people at the beginning of 2012. Neal
