On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > It was quite the contrary. The conference this year was organised by KDAB and > ICS, with a program team consisting of people from those two companies, Digia, > RIM and also myself. The only thing we were missing was someone with no > company affiliation. Still, I think the program team did a great job. > Good to hear.
> I really appreciate your contributions to the project and I wish you could > come to all events. But as it is, the program team felt that there were other > presentations we would prefer over yours, either because they were more > specific about a certain subject or because the presenter would be a smaller > burden on the conference budget. I actually decided to talk about some of the subject matters for this reason exactly; Try to create some fresh general hype around Qt that is suitable not just for the already invested, super specialized stake holder. (-I feel Qt needs rescue it from the dangerous niche market it is falling back to, now even more highlighted with Nokia's departure...) > > I'm not privy to the financial details of either conference, so I don't know > how well they're doing in that area. From other conferences in the past, I do > know that the travel budget is severely constrained, though. > All I can say is that I wish I could fund myself to attend, as I do believe the realm of data collection connected apps is one of the most important courts we should own to reach greater ecosystem adoption (i.e. Android, iOS etc..). Hoping for better times! -Sivan _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
