Hi, I have to agree with all being said. It's for me hard to believe that it's not possible to find some place for the GUADEC in Barcelona in those dates (although I don't know much about organizing this kind of events).
Lluis. El jue, 01-12-2005 a las 21:31 +0100, Ludovic Danigo escribió: > > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Quim Gil wrote: > > Yesterday the GNOME Foundation board approved the > guadec-planning > > proposal of changing dates and location of GUADEC7. The plan > of going > > together with the IGC was more difficult as expected and we > have found > > an alternative by mutual agreement. > > > > GUADEC7 will be held in the CampusMed from Vilanova i la > Geltrú and the > > dates move to the end of June with the aim of being more > suitable to > > students and other participants conditioned by the > school/university > > calendar. > > > > The new planned dates are: > > > > - Sat 24/jun and Sun 25/jun: Local Workshops, GUADEC-ES and > GUADEC warmup > > - Mon 26/jun to Wed 28/jun GUADEC core > > - possibility of oth er related events until Sun 2/jul if > needed > > > > Sorry for any inconvenience this change might has caused. > > I think it's going to be a BIG inconvenience for lots of > people, since > many people were hoping to go to Barcelona to see the city and > spend some > time with other GNOME people seeing the city. > > Isn't there any other possibility to stay in Barcelona? > Please, Could you do some more research? I'll help if I can. > > Many people won't have any problem to pay more to stay in > Barcelona > if they already have to fly there. > > As an example, I've changed my mind from 100% sure to go to > GUADEC7 to > "I'll have to think twice if I'm going". > Sadly I can only agree :-( > > I personnaly see severals problems here : > > * People have been sold Guadec 2006 in Barcelona in the Fira > facilities in parallel with IGC, a way to reach a new public. > Less people are to be expected. > > * Developers paid by their company to come won't mind the change > of course but casual developer and more general public willing to > assits might. > > * Selling Vilanova instead of Barcelona to sponsors is going to be > harder. > > * Selling Vilanova as Barcelona would be a lie. It is going to be as > much Barcelona 2006 as Tarragona 2006. > (from my point of view :-) > > * People willing to help organise might be more hesitant. As for > myself, I am willing to help but honestly it's a bit far and I don't > know > if I will actually be helpful. I don't have much freetime and I don't > have > car. (Lo siento pero Ripollet <-> Vilanova es un palo) > That said I am sure people from there will be glad to help. > > Can you give a sum up of the problem Gnome Foundation had with the > IGC ? I am just subscribe to guadec-list ultimatly. > > Anyway I'll try to come the 12 to see if I can be of any help :-) > > > > > -- > Ludovic Danigo > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! > Messenger > Téléchargez le ici ! > _______________________________________________ > guadec-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
