Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-16 Thread Richard Hughes
On 14 December 2011 13:32, Lennart Poettering mzta...@0pointer.de wrote: Well, but let's not forget that the folks you explicitly list here are probably more on the side against the colocation than for it. At least of the one you named first I know that he is against the combined conf. And I

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-16 Thread Richard Stallman
We used to get free rooms (~4) at MIT on Columbus day long weekend. I will inquire. What sort of rooms? Large lecture halls? Ordinary classrooms? Does anyone recall the room numbers from a previous time? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA

Re: Boston Summit logistics (was Re: Desktop Summit Planning)

2011-12-16 Thread Richard Stallman
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

Re: Boston Summit logistics (was Re: Desktop Summit Planning)

2011-12-16 Thread Vincent Untz
Richard, Le vendredi 16 décembre 2011, à 10:39 -0500, Richard Stallman a écrit : 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

Re: Boston Summit logistics (was Re: Desktop Summit Planning)

2011-12-16 Thread Máirín Duffy
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

Re: Boston Summit logistics (was Re: Desktop Summit Planning)

2011-12-16 Thread john palmieri
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...

Re: Boston Summit logistics (was Re: Desktop Summit Planning)

2011-12-16 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
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

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-16 Thread Dodji Seketeli
Sriram Ramkrishna s...@ramkrishna.me a écrit: For instance, having Plumbers conference with a desktop conference would be quite interesting I think considering the direction we are moving towards. A vertical platform, this might be more interesting. I couldn't agree more, Sri. Thank you for

What kind of device is GNOME 3 best suited for?

2011-12-16 Thread Brian Cameron
I realize that there is a lot of development going on to make GNOME 3 function well on new kinds of devices, such as touch screen support. Awesome, really. However, I wonder on what sort of device GNOME 3 is best targeted for. Most tablets that are currently popular differentiate themselves a