On 2/27/13 5:19 AM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote:
An event with only a week's notice is pretty useless especially if it
clashes with significant dates like feature freeze.
+1 here too as it makes planning totally difficult for any contributor
(as gilir said and on a personal note I would take time off during May
and November to plan down on my views that I thought to say during the
uds.
Secondly, The timezone in which this uds is planned for just puts me
virtually out of participation on the sessions I intend to attend as
it will be at the stroke of midnight at the place where I live (and
holds good for most of the eastern parts I guess) and waking up coming
back from work would be difficult.
Thirdly, contributors (like myself) can be living in some places where
internet connectivity would be not that great to support HD video
streaming and can cause distortion when trying to speak.
I empathize -- doing UDS remotely on the same days that you have real
work is rough and I wouldn't recommend it. I realized how much I was
putitng into Ubuntu when I found myself staying up till 3am to attend a
UDS session a day before a major exam ;)
Perhaps on the other side, in principle if you were prepared to take
time off to come to UDS you may be able to take time off to adjust your
personal clock and secure a reliable internet connection for remote
participation.
Finally, By this, the human touch to ubuntu community will drop
further a bit as I think ubuntu community has been a great community
for the social touch it provides (although doing an online UDS is
beneficial from the commercial and the time perspective but can create
a dent in the social aspect of the community).
No argument here, although I think those of us sponsored to attend may
not have appreciated how incredibly expensive the ordeal was.
Thanks,
Scott Ritchie
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