2009/2/12 Quim Gil <[email protected]>: > > ext Sebastian 'CrashandDie' Lauwers wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Aniello Del Sorbo <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Also, what's the rationale behind not choosing c-base again ? >> >> Been there. Done that. > > One reasons could be that by not having an event nearby we would loose > potential speakers and participants. > > OSiM is not the biggest and best developer conference I have seen, but > there were some developers attending that were extending the visit to > Berlin to go to the Maemo Summit. And not only developers, it was good > to have Jay Sullivan from Mozilla and he could come because anyway he > was attending OSiM. > > OSiM tries to do better with developers every year and my default > assumption is that more developers "in the business" will attend (people > from Collabora, Igalia and other small companies that also have a link > to Maemo. > > I'm not saying that we should go for Amsterdam and I'm still seeing > whether does dates make sense in order to show something as cool as the > Maemo community deserve. :) But at least they would be reasons not to > repeat in c-base, even if the event was great (but not free, although > affordable). > > By the way, I can prepare a rough summary of the Maemo Summit expenses, > for reference. I won't go into details of how much we spent on each > contributor sponsored but it is useful to share the basic numbers. >
This makes perfectly sense. I was not aware there were no other main conference in Berlin in that date range. I missed the fact that OSiM is being to be held in Amsterdam from the previous mails, thus I was confused. Thanks. -- anidel _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
