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

["Corey Burger" <corey burger gmail com>]

On 6/11/07, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 22:39 +0300, Quim Gil wrote:
> > About the KDE & GNOME event, probably the best way to progress is by
> > doing progressive approaches. Jumping from the current situation to a
> > joint conference sounds a bit like going from self-esteem to the 32nd
> > position of the Kama Sutra in one go.
> >
> > As others have suggested, a successful combined room in FOSDEM would
> > be already a big (and useful) step. Trying to put together GUADEC and
> > aKademy befor trying smaller challenges in save contexts would be very
> > risky.
>
> Maybe for some people, not for me.  Lets repeat again: many of us can
> only get to one European conference per year, and even that one is hard
> enough to get to.

All of us in North America are pretty much in the same boat. A trip to
Europe starts at about $500 for the East Coast and about $750 for us
poor West Coast people. By combining the events (possibly also mixing
in an X or an XFCE track) would instantly make it much more appealing
to come to, from a purely economic POV.

Corey