Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-17 Thread Luis Villa
On 9/14/05, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Let's be very clear- we have a conference for hackers that interests > > several hundred people, and we have a separate conference for business > > and government that interests dozens, and there is very little overlap > > between those two gro

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-14 Thread Quim Gil
> Let's be very clear- we have a conference for hackers that interests > several hundred people, and we have a separate conference for business > and government that interests dozens, and there is very little overlap > between those two groups. I'm not clear why we continue to insist that > they b

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-12 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 00:19 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > For 1/2 the cost, we could run summit-style (low-cost, high-fun) > events on every continent (including a big one in Europe as the > 'mother ship'), and for 1/4 the cost, we could send a handful of GNOME > community leaders to every major

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-12 Thread Glynn Foster
Hi, On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 00:11 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > 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 comple

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

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: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-08 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 10:05 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: > I don't think we should eliminate the enterprise or government outreach > aspects of GUADEC - think how important deployments like Extremadura > have been (or should have been). However I think we should focus that > outreach to take adv

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-08 Thread Bill Haneman
I don't think we should eliminate the enterprise or government outreach aspects of GUADEC - think how important deployments like Extremadura have been (or should have been). However I think we should focus that outreach to take advantage of our strengths. In that way, enterprises and/or gover

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-08 Thread Dave Neary
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 Foundation, for others is a way to enhance a common vision of GNO

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-07 Thread Quim Gil
> That's a fair summary of what the board has discussed, as recently as > June. Jonathan Blandford once termed GUADEC as GNOME's mothership, an > annual place to meet and recharge batteries. This is an insiders' point of view and this is possibly a reason why the GUADEC satisfy generally insider

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-07 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
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 > Foundation, for others is a way to enhance a common vision of GNOME, for > others That's a fair su

Re: What is GUADEC?

2005-09-07 Thread Quim Gil
> Deciding what GUADEC is for is harder. Changing the name should be easy. As you see is not that easy. :) Also, what is most important about a change is not the fact of being easy or harder, but being useful and worth to change. I don't think it's worth deciding a change for GUADEC's name befo

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

2005-09-07 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Luis Villa a écrit : On 9/5/05, David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. There is no link to GNOME in the name, or to being a conference In both the current name and the proposed name, you have a G, that's it. So if this is the problem, the proposed new name doesn't solve it. I'm sold