Re: What is GUADEC? (was: Re: Changing the name of GUADEC)

2005-09-11 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/7/05, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Besides these obvious flaws, I'd really hate to see fundamental > > tinkering with things like this while we still don't have a basic idea > > of what the heck GUADEC is and who it is meant to be for. > > I think the GUADEC planners need to co

poor man's SWOT analysis of GUADEC

2005-09-11 Thread Luis Villa
While I'm flaming away elsewhere, I thought it might be constructive to write down some of the thinking that has led me to the conclusions that we are drifting very badly with GUADEC right now. A simplistic SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis might let me get some of this

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-11 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/8/05, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation a écrit : > > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 16:05 +0200, Quim Gil wrote: > >>For some the GUADEC is an opportunity to meet, for others is a way to > >>get new contributors, for others is a way to get some money for the

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-11 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/8/05, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:34 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > > > a large portion of the attendees were either completely uninterested > > in the first two days, or completely uninterested in the 3rd. > > The evaluation forms submitted st

Re: GNOME trademark guidelines and user group agreement

2005-09-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2005-09-11 at 12:57 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Indeed. But the article discusses how magazines cannot > distribute RHEL. RHEL is a support and service arrangement with attached product, so no a magazine could never distribute it. Centos is just code and they do > Funnier is that y

Re: GNOME trademark guidelines and user group agreement

2005-09-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Elijah Newren wrote: > On 9/9/05, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, David Neary wrote: > > > > > Let's say that it was a mistake, or that distributing the foot under the > > > GPL is incompatible with defending it as a trademark - what remedy d