Hi,
I know people are busy with GUADEC prep, but I just wanted to start the
thread early around this year's Boston Summit. Last year's was in
Montréal, so following the pattern we'll do Boston again, right?
I can take as an action item getting in touch with MIT for a venue
again. Would someone
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org wrote:
Hi,
I know people are busy with GUADEC prep, but I just wanted to start the
thread early around this year's Boston Summit. Last year's was in
Montréal, so following the pattern we'll do Boston again, right?
I can take
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014, at 11:49 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
Colin, I've forwarded you a mail from Karen with confirmation that the
rooms have been booked. She did this back in May.
Awesome! I updated the wiki page with this info.
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As far as I see, there are 3 different people working on this (or at
least 2 plus another one interested in). It might be a good idea if you
could coordinate between yourselves if you have not done that yet.
Yes, I'll email James and Tristan (are there others?) to try to
coordinate something.
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote:
On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 17:00 +0100, Jeff Fortin wrote:
Hi all,
I just wanted to let you know that I'm currently trying to organize this
in Montréal, it would be lovely to have you folks here again.
As far as I see,
Do we have a wiki page yet for this summit?
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On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 17:00 +0100, Jeff Fortin wrote:
Hi all,
I just wanted to let you know that I'm currently trying to organize this
in Montréal, it would be lovely to have you folks here again.
As far as I see, there are 3 different people working on this (or at
least 2 plus another one
Hi all,
I just wanted to let you know that I'm currently trying to organize this
in Montréal, it would be lovely to have you folks here again.
I'm researching venues and talking to various local folks right now to
see where we could find some free venue. It will take me some time but
I'll get
, this is even worse for people living in small cities. In my
case I assisted the Boston summit twice (2009, 2012). And it was a
Coruña-Madrid-Boston. In the hypothetical case of repeating this year,
that extra hop would mean Coruña-Madrid-Amsterdam-Portland or
Coruña-Madrid-Seattle-Boston.
But I'm
No, it's Thanksgiving, without the quotation marks. :) We've always
wondered why the Americans insist on having it on the wrong day. The end
of November? The snow is already flying then!
If Canada exports enough tar sands oil, by and by Canada will also
need to hold Thanksgiving in
On 13-04-30 08:58 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
We are a quirky bunch of people. :-) We're almost like Bostonians except
maybe a little more weirder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBt4HlcDUDw
?
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Rt awesome :-)
On 1 May 2013 20:53, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
On 13-04-30 08:58 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
We are a quirky bunch of people. :-) We're almost like Bostonians except
maybe a little more weirder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBt4HlcDUDw
?
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I couldn't see it, but since I see it is Portlandia where young people go
to retire ;)
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
On 13-04-30 08:58 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
We are a quirky bunch of people. :-) We're almost like Bostonians except
maybe
On Fri, April 26, 2013 4:51 am, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
I'd love to visit Portland!
However we might want to take into account that doing it in the west
coast will have an impact on the travel budget since a lot of people
live in Europe and the east coast.
I know Sri is working hard to look into
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Benjamin Otte o...@gnome.org wrote:
Sriram Ramkrishna sri at ramkrishna.me writes:
I agree that is a point worth considering. Portland is a second tier
city
and sometimes takes a extra hop because there are not a lot direct flights
especially from Europe.
it in different city is because of last
incident in Boston. It is not for the sake of moving it.
And as Benjamin opened the can of Europe is far far away from
Portland, this is even worse for people living in small cities. In my
case I assisted the Boston summit twice (2009, 2012
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote:
On Fri, April 26, 2013 4:51 am, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
I'd love to visit Portland!
However we might want to take into account that doing it in the west
coast will have an impact on the travel budget since a lot of people
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, James purplei...@gmail.com wrote:
I previously mentioned that I'm based in Montreal, and happy to help
organize this if people are interested.
HTH,
James
OK, looks like we have a winner. Do you have a venue that you can
research? BTW Columbus Day is
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:21 AM, James purplei...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote:
On Fri, April 26, 2013 4:51 am, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
I'd love to visit Portland!
However we might want to take into account that doing it in the west
coast
of people having to take an extra and/or longer flight,
while not great, is not a show-stopper. To me the show-stopper is
unbudgeted travel expenses with less than a year's notice.
It is my understanding that quite a few usual Boston Summit attendees
are within reasonable driving distance of Boston
, is not a show-stopper. To me the show-stopper is
unbudgeted travel expenses with less than a year's notice.
We are a quirky bunch of people. :-) We're almost like Bostonians except
maybe a little more weirder.
It is my understanding that quite a few usual Boston Summit attendees
are within
Just a suggestion, perhaps the next year's location should be bid on and
announced during the current year's summit like GUADEC is. That would make
it much easier to plan for budgets, etc.
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote:
On Tue, Apr 30,
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, James purplei...@gmail.com wrote:
I previously mentioned that I'm based in Montreal, and happy to help
organize this if people are interested.
HTH,
James
OK, looks like we
+1
Jared Jennings
jaredljenni...@gmail.com
On Apr 30, 2013, at 8:27 PM, john palmieri john.j5.palmi...@gmail.com wrote:
Just a suggestion, perhaps the next year's location should be bid on and
announced during the current year's summit like GUADEC is. That would make
it much easier to plan
If we do bids, I might be able to talk the Chicago GNOME community into
applying for a future year. We are in the middle of the US, and have a
major international airport, so it might be a nice option.
Meg
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Jared L Jennings jaredljenni...@gmail.com
wrote:
+1
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:41 PM, meg ford meg...@gmail.com wrote:
If we do bids, I might be able to talk the Chicago GNOME community into
applying for a future year. We are in the middle of the US, and have a
major international airport, so it might be a nice option.
Meg, that sounds like a
My offer of advice extends to this summit also.
On May 1, 2013 12:57 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me wrote:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:41 PM, meg ford meg...@gmail.com wrote:
If we do bids, I might be able to talk the Chicago GNOME community into
applying for a future year. We are
Sriram Ramkrishna sri at ramkrishna.me writes:
I agree that is a point worth considering. Portland is a second tier city
and sometimes takes a extra hop because there are not a lot direct flights
especially from Europe.
That's a nice way to say Only Amsterdam offers a direct flight. Which
On Apr 27, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Luc Pionchon wrote:
On 27 April 2013 17:08, Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com wrote:
Continuously telling some of our biggest fans that they are wrong all the
time is not the way to grow our project.
As a soft note, I did not read Richard's message this
They are open source based startups. They call themselves open source
projects.
They probably do that because they support the open source philosophy.
By saying open source they encourage others to think that way too.
Conversely, the way to encourage others to think about free/libre
This is true. Portland has a very large presence of many open source based
start ups
We're happy to accept support from those that talk about open
source, but let's take care to present GNOME as a free/libre software
project, with the goal of giving users freedom, rather than using the
Hi Richard,
They are open source based startups. They call themselves open source
projects. I think we should refer to them as open source projects
regardless of what we call GNOME.
If people from open source software projects want to join us at a GNOME
event to learn more about GNOME, we should
On 27 April 2013 17:08, Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Richard,
They are open source based startups. They call themselves open source
projects. I think we should refer to them as open source projects
regardless of what we call GNOME.
If people from open source software
On 27 April 2013 19:15, Lefty le...@shugendo.org wrote:
On Apr 27, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Luc Pionchon wrote:
On 27 April 2013 17:08, Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com wrote:
Continuously telling some of our biggest fans that they are wrong all
the time is not the way to grow our project.
OK folks, let's keep moving otherwise we'll just rathole into a topic that
we don't need to get into. Richard has made his point. Let's move on.
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Luc Pionchon pionchon@gmail.comwrote:
On 27 April 2013 19:15, Lefty le...@shugendo.org wrote:
On Apr 27,
I'd love to visit Portland!
However we might want to take into account that doing it in the west
coast will have an impact on the travel budget since a lot of people
live in Europe and the east coast.
2013/4/26 Emily Gonyer emilyyr...@gmail.com:
Portland would be awesome in my book! :)
On
On Apr 26, 2013 1:51 AM, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote:
I'd love to visit Portland!
However we might want to take into account that doing it in the west
coast will have an impact on the travel budget since a lot of people
live in Europe and the east coast.
I agree that is a point
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 13:09 -0400, James wrote:
I'm based in Montreal if I can help out in some way.
It's a beautiful city despite some political issues.
Is anyone else from the 2011 Montreal team around who could help
organize again there?
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I don't know if i can go, but I think this is a very valid point.
While, Portland, the city sounds great and I think would be awesome. Chicago or
Dallas, would likely be cheaper flight costs. Even Boston is is a second tier
for many of us in the USA.
Jared Jennings
jaredljenni...@gmail.com
On
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Jared L Jennings jaredljenni...@gmail.com
wrote:
I don't know if i can go, but I think this is a very valid point.
While, Portland, the city sounds great and I think would be awesome.
Chicago or Dallas, would likely be cheaper flight costs.
True, but there
Valid point.
A quick check and Kansas City to Portland is 450$. About the same as to Boston.
Probably should choose more on the features of the city and what else is unique
as for venues than flights ;)
Jared Jennings
jaredljenni...@gmail.com
On Apr 26, 2013, at 12:15 PM, meg ford
In addition to GNOME folks willing to host (yeah, Sri!) there is also a
large, active open source community in Portland so we might draw new people
or people that haven't been able to travel to Europe or Boston.
Stormy
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:15 AM, meg ford meg...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri,
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.comwrote:
In addition to GNOME folks willing to host (yeah, Sri!) there is also a
large, active open source community in Portland so we might draw new people
or people that haven't been able to travel to Europe or Boston.
, among
others. It's certainly the case that this presence is not as strong
now. But at least Montreal is drivable from Boston (and that's what
several of us did in 2011). And hotels are not too expensive there
(compared to Cambridge).
[...]
Maybe because of the same reason, Boston Summit
there
(compared to Cambridge).
[...]
Maybe because of the same reason, Boston Summit was almost (if not)
zero-cost for the foundation. It has been during the last ~2-3 editions
that the foundation started to sponsor some people to attend.
yeah, and it's not really a summit without the folks
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 13:43 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
Portland! It's just like Boston, but on the other side of the coast! :D
People whine a lot there. It could either an opportunity or a problem.
Where would it be? Would you take care of the logistic there?
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Yes, I think I can take care of logistics if people are interested. If
people want to take my suggestion seriously I will make a bid.
There are a lot of places that provide hacker areas in Portland.
Definitely downtown portland would be the right place for this. Some place
centralized where we
+1 for Portland.
Meg Ford
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote:
Yes, I think I can take care of logistics if people are interested. If
people want to take my suggestion seriously I will make a bid.
There are a lot of places that provide hacker areas
Portland would be awesome in my book! :)
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:15 PM, meg ford meg...@gmail.com wrote:
+1 for Portland.
Meg Ford
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.mewrote:
Yes, I think I can take care of logistics if people are interested. If
Portland! It's just like Boston, but on the other side of the coast! :D
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Joanmarie Diggs jdi...@igalia.com wrote:
Hey all.
We should probably be thinking about where the Boston Summit will be
this year. :) Do we want to have another Montreal Summit
:
Portland! It's just like Boston, but on the other side of the coast! :D
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Joanmarie Diggs jdi...@igalia.com
mailto:jdi...@igalia.com wrote:
Hey all.
We should probably be thinking about where the Boston Summit will be
this year. :) Do we want
Hi,
At GUADEC, it was announced that the Boston Summit 2012 is on! More
information is available here:
https://live.gnome.org/Boston2012
Please do fill in the attendance list so we can somewhat accurately
gauge required refreshment quantity, etc.
There's a lot of topics to discuss, and I hope
On 2012-04-27 17:17, Michael Hill wrote:
Hi Karen,
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org
wrote:
Are there teams (or individuals, since this is a less formal event)
in Toronto, Boston and/or Montreal that are willing to take on the
burden of trying to organize this?
will be October 19-21, and it would be nice if the
GNOME Summit (wherever it is :) doesn't conflict with it either.
Thanks,
Marina
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Subject: Boston Summit
this up.
Meg
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To: foundation-list@gnome.org
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 7:30:19 AM
Subject: Boston Summit?
Hey guys.
Looking at my fall calendar I noticed that the Boston Summit* and Grace
Hopper overlap, the latter being
to choose between the two events. I was really
pleased that Joanie brought this up.
A bit of context:
The reason the Boston Summit is on Columbus day is because we could get
the venue for free, plus being during a long weekend because of no
university activities.
Last year there were issues to book
On 04/27/2012 07:30 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
So I realize it's still quite early, but are we planning on having
the Boston Summit in Boston and over Columbus Day weekend?
Can we have in Toronto please?
behdad
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
Can we have in Toronto please?
+1
We promise to be hospitable (and here we observe Columbus Day with turkey).
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On 04/27/2012 11:49 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
On 04/27/2012 05:35 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
On 04/27/2012 07:30 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
So I realize it's still quite early, but are we planning on having
the Boston Summit in Boston and over Columbus Day weekend?
Can we have in Toronto
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote:
I was thinking, size permitting, we may even be able to do at Mozilla offices?
Other than that, yes, there's university space. York University is
definitely workable, thanks to Chris Tyler. There's been FUDCon's
On 04/27/2012 12:25 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
I was thinking, size permitting, we may even be able to do at Mozilla offices?
What were you thinking about the date? Is Columbus Day weekend ideal,
inconvenient, or irrelevant?
--joanie
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Joanmarie Diggs jdi...@igalia.com wrote:
What were you thinking about the date? Is Columbus Day weekend ideal,
inconvenient, or irrelevant?
When the question came up in Montreal last year, a key ingredient was
the long weekend (same Monday, different holiday
On 04/27/2012 02:18 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
On 04/27/2012 12:25 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
I was thinking, size permitting, we may even be able to do at Mozilla
offices?
What were you thinking about the date? Is Columbus Day weekend ideal,
inconvenient, or irrelevant?
Eventually
On Fri, April 27, 2012 2:47 pm, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
On 04/27/2012 02:18 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
On 04/27/2012 12:25 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
I was thinking, size permitting, we may even be able to do at Mozilla
offices?
What were you thinking about the date? Is Columbus Day weekend
Hi Karen,
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote:
Are there teams (or individuals, since this is a less formal event)
in Toronto, Boston and/or Montreal that are willing to take on the
burden of trying to organize this?
I don't want to speak for Ryan, but I'm
Hi Richard,
Henry Holtzman at the Media Lab and Walter Bender has helped us in the
past. They have work with the registrar's office at
http://web.mit.edu/registrar/www/schedules/ though that link seems
outdated. This one seems to be the correct one -
Thanks. Now I know enough to raise the issue on Monday.
If room booking only starts in March, maybe I can at least
find out if it will be allowed.
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President, Free Software Foundation
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Boston MA 02110
USA
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Skype: No way! That's nonfree
Thanks so much for offering to look into this, Richard! I hear that the
Stata Center was a better location in the past than the Economics Building
if we have the choice...
When it was in the Stata Center, which rooms were they? If I get the
room numbers, I will know exactly what to
Center, which rooms were they? If I get the
room numbers, I will know exactly what to ask for.
I never went to a Boston Summit in the Stata Center, but in 2004 and
2005, we had rooms 124 and 144 (according to schedules on the wiki:
http://live.gnome.org/Boston2004/TheSchedule and
http
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 10:39 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
Thanks so much for offering to look into this, Richard! I hear that the
Stata Center was a better location in the past than the Economics Building
if we have the choice...
When it was in the Stata Center, which rooms were
2011/12/16 Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org:
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 10:39 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
Thanks so much for offering to look into this, Richard! I hear that the
Stata Center was a better location in the past than the Economics
Building
if we have the choice...
Can we have next one in Toronto please? :D
I can run.
On 12/16/2011 12:45 PM, john palmieri wrote:
2011/12/16 Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org:
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 10:39 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
Thanks so much for offering to look into this, Richard! I hear that the
Stata
On Thu, December 15, 2011 5:28 pm, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote:
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 16:41 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
What did the previous MIT contact do? Maybe I can get it done.
We used to get free rooms (~4) at MIT on Columbus day long weekend.
It would be great if you can get done
Hey! You are in the board now! Good job! Have fun in Montreal! Je me souviens :)
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Ryan Lortie de...@desrt.ca wrote:
Hello foundation members,
Despite some heroic efforts by Colin and Karen, we were unable to
acquire a venue in Cambridge for this year's Boston
Don't forget the danger of unprovoked beatings while leaving the US
at the Canadian border. Remember Peter Watts!
If you're not coming from the US, don't go through the US to Canada.
Flight connections in the US are nasty. If you are not a US citizen,
they demand your fingerprints!
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Hello foundation members,
Despite some heroic efforts by Colin and Karen, we were unable to
acquire a venue in Cambridge for this year's Boston Summit.
Fortunately, some kind folks from Collabora jumped in and offered to
help organise the event in Montréal. We've been furiously phoning
around
that the Boston Summit might be
the Montreal Summit.
Montreal is all kinds of charming awesomeness, and if that is where the
Summit is going to be this year, that's great. But it does of course
mean that some people who didn't have to travel will now have to, and
that some meetings of convenience
Just wanted to highlight:
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ryan Lortie de...@desrt.ca wrote:
As of 2009, a passport is required for those entering Canada by car.
Don't forget your passport.
:)
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Hey all.
The other day I heard an interesting rumor, which I've since been able
to confirm [1]: There's a small chance that the Boston Summit might be
the Montreal Summit.
Montreal is all kinds of charming awesomeness, and if that is where the
Summit is going to be this year, that's great
Someone left their charger for their laptop in the MIT Media Lab space. We
discovered it as we were cleaning up for the day and so it could have been
left behind at any point.
I have it and would gladly ship it to whomever is missing it. Just contact
me off-list and describe it.
are for the Boston Summit this year.
Therefore, at the risk of being a noodge, would you happen to have any
updates?
Thanks in advance! Take care.
--joanie
[1] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/HackfestAEGIS2010
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 10:25 -0400, John Palmieri wrote:
Hello all,
I'm going
On wo, 2010-05-19 at 10:25 -0400, John Palmieri wrote:
Hello all,
I'm going to be starting the process for setting up the Boston Summit.
That basically means getting the space at MIT and then a budget from
the board. Last year we saw an issue with the timing of other GNOME
related
conference but not to Boston Summit, and who? (for example, based on
people who participated to the events last year)
Vincent
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Hello all,
I'm going to be starting the process for setting up the Boston Summit. That
basically means getting the space at MIT and then a budget from the board.
Last year we saw an issue with the timing of other GNOME related conferences.
This year we have a choice of two dates, Columbus
Hi John.
This year we have a choice of two dates, Columbus day weekend, October
9th-11th or piggyback the weekend after the Linux Plumbers conference,
November 6th-8th.
Put me down in the November column.
I'm leaning towards keeping Columbus day weekend because it is easier
to get
For those not at the AGM during GUADEC I had announced confirmation on this
years GNOME Boston Summit in October at MIT.
Dates:
October 10th, 11th and 12th
Location:
MIT Sloan Building (E51)
Cambridge, MA
Rooms 315, 325, 335, 345
Hackfests
As of right now we have funding thanks to Novell
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 12:46 -0500, Adam Schreiber wrote:
On Dec 3, 2007 12:41 PM, Og Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about North Carolina? We have a great place with big name
companies, schools and exciting people.
Seconded.
Adam Schreiber
*cough*Clemson University, Clemson,
, and it is a cheap flight for Bostonians. There is a Red Hat
office here, not sure about other GNOMEy elements.
Sounds like a great idea to me. Do we have any numbers showing how many
non US attendants were there at the previous Boston summits?
Don't think so. But I'm all in favor of Boston Summit
quote who=Behdad Esfahbod
But if you look, I asked for help about Boston Summit on the boston-social
list as early as June:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/boston-social/2007-June/msg0.html
and got no reply. I mailed at least three Boston residents directly and
got no reply either
Part of the issue is the Boston Summit is always in Boston where as
GUADEC can always get fresh enthusiastic teams to help out. This is
because in order to become a host city for GUADEC you already have to
have a team assembled to make and sell a bid. This is helped by the
fact that host
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:44 +, Ghee Teo wrote:
Part of the issue is the Boston Summit is always in Boston where as
GUADEC can always get fresh enthusiastic teams to help out. This is
because in order to become a host city for GUADEC you already have to
have a team assembled to make
quote who=Ghee Teo
Have the board paused and thought why the Summit has to be Boston? Is it
because most hackers work around Boston? May be it was the case.
Because there's a critical mass of developers there -- most of both the Red
Hat and Novell desktop teams.
- Jeff
--
GNOME.conf.au
.
Dan Winship points out on IRC that while this was true when the Boston
Summit was created, there aren't a lot of Novell desktop hackers left in
Boston these days. Perhaps a roaming Columbus Day weekend conference (still
in the USA) would be a good thing?
- Jeff
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linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 07:53 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Perhaps a roaming Columbus Day weekend conference (still
in the USA) would be a good thing?
s/USA/North America/
Canada do exist. And in that case Columbus day is Thanksgiving in Canada
so it might be wise to move the date a bit.
Hub
of both the
Red Hat and Novell desktop teams.
Dan Winship points out on IRC that while this was true when the Boston
Summit was created, there aren't a lot of Novell desktop hackers left in
Boston these days. Perhaps a roaming Columbus Day weekend conference (still
in the USA) would
I want to do a quick IRC meeting about the GNOME summit today
Date: Today, Thu Oct 4
Time: 2:00pm US/Eastern, 18:00 UTC
Place: irc.gnome.org:#boston
Agenda:
* Needed supplies and equipment
* Fixed schedule elements (opening sessions / closing sessions, etc)
* Missing information on the
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