The Foundation hasn't decided to cut back on hackfests. However, to fund
them, we are going to have to come up with a new approach. Typically
hackfests are funded by corporate sponsorship and that money is not readily
available this year.
We can certainly do better at showing companies return on
Hi Philip,
Philip Van Hoof wrote:
I for example remember that in Berlin we had the idea of putting
interviews with the hackers online. I never found those.
This should be something the Foundation pushes for (given that they
funded many hackers' flights I think it's fair that the Foundation
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:37 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi Philip,
I agree with you that when the foundation has spent money on
initiatives, the people who have benefitted have not always done
everything they might have to publicise the support and ensure that
people could see a clear value to
Hi,
Philip Van Hoof wrote:
Push for it, in a much more formal way. Don't just request them. It's
the foundation's money: you can request things like this. We voted for
you people so that you can.
It's been a while since anyone voted for me, mind :) (Note: this is also
me, active foundation
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:44 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
You are already planning to start paying a sysadmin.
I'm against this particular expense, I don't think we can afford it.
In a similar way
I'm guessing you can pay a journalist writing the articles and editing
the interviews.
Hi,
Philip Van Hoof wrote:
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:44 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
Budget = trade-offs. More money for paying people = less money for
air-fares.
Why would for example the mobile vendors use upstream infrastructure if
it's constantly slow or broken? In that case, they wont.
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 13:56 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
Philip Van Hoof wrote:
I for example remember that in Berlin we had the idea of putting
interviews with the hackers online. I never found those.
I believe Mirco is still working on the editing of those.
It appears he is almost
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 13:02 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
2009/3/31 Philip Van Hoof pvanh...@gnome.org:
Sorry, but being on a foreign country, for hacking purposes and still
doing some blogging is hard enough. You can ask, but you can't enforce
people to do it.
Sorry, but I flat out disagree.
Although it is disappointing that the GTK+ Hackfest was canceled,
the GNOME Foundation still plans to support many projects and other
events. Considering the economic times, it probably is not surprising
that some of our plans will be affected.
To help address this, the GNOME Foundation has
Hi there,
In Behdad's mail on gtk-devel-list, Behdad explains on why the
foundation has decided to cut back on hackfests. This is a fair and
reasonable reason, by the way (his last mail in the thread explains the
financial aspect of it pretty well).
On 03/30/2009 02:18 PM, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
Hi there,
In Behdad's mail on gtk-devel-list, Behdad explains on why the
foundation has decided to cut back on hackfests. This is a fair and
reasonable reason, by the way (his last mail in the thread explains the
financial aspect of it pretty
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