Re: Changing the name of GUADEC

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Alan Horkan wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, David Neary wrote:
>
> > Davyd Madeley came up with GConf.
>
> This isn't an improve and not enough of an improvement to merit the
> change.  If you had said "Gnome Con" which should need no further
> explanation I might have been able to take your comment seriously
> but as it stands you are replacing one bad bit of gibberish with
> another.
>
> > Some people might say that there are more important issues to deal with
> > for GUADEC, like the content, the target audience, the direction, the
> > site, all that. They're right. But this is one small thing we can make
> > better, and finally correct an increasingly inaccurate pointless acronym.
>
> Speaking of pointless acronyms we look like illetrates claiming GNOME is

and before anyone else mocks my spelling (or more to the point my
careless typing) yes I know and it is embarassing.

- Alan