Re: GNOME Foundation Board Meeting Minutes :: 7/6/07

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

Another option that could be considered is back-to-back co-location. You
get a lot of the same advantages in terms of cheaper financials, yet
since they will be run sequentially at the same location you don't get
the collisions and 'noise' of sharing one venue at the same time. And
interested GNOME hackers could that way easy attend aKademy by extending
their stay a little and the same for KDE hackers the other way around.

Christian 


> Several possibilities for co-operation exist:
> 
>  - Co-location: conferences take part in different parts of the same
> campus; we meet up for lunch & at night, but have our own conferences.
> Have a couple of days X-desktop sessions at the end (or at the beginning).
>  - Merge conferences - create a Super DDC which has a KDE stream & a
> GNOME stream, but only one identity and one organising committee.
> 
> There are others.
> 
> There are of course problems that need to be managed - conflicting
> requirements around keynotes, travel sponsorship, make-up of the
> organising committee, and so on. But I think there are substantial
> benefits too, and the topic merits discussion.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>