Re: What is GUADEC?
- From: "Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation" <director gnome org>
- To: Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
- Cc: Dave Neary <dneary free fr>, guadec-planning <guadec-planning gnome org>, Foundation-List <foundation-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: What is GUADEC?
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:07:15 -0400
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 10:05 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> I don't think we should eliminate the enterprise or government outreach
> aspects of GUADEC - think how important deployments like Extremadura
> have been (or should have been). However I think we should focus that
> outreach to take advantage of our strengths.
>
> In that way, enterprises and/or governments with interest in "the Free
> Desktop" will know that GUADEC is the place to go for specific, targeted
> discussions of issues of interest to them, from a highly technical and
> expert perspective.
There is proof in the pudding of just that - Extremadura, for example,
sending nearly 20 people to Dublin to learn more, so when they could go
home and implement.
> The fact that GUADEC is full of technically astute
> hackers _including the core platform developers_ is something few
> conferences can offer.
True - GUADEC's core competency.
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:34 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> a large portion of the attendees were either completely uninterested
> in the first two days, or completely uninterested in the 3rd.
The evaluation forms submitted stated did not state that. Owen, jrb and
I have tabulated the GUADEC evaluation forms to publish soon.
> If it's outreach, who are we reaching out to?
Certainly people like the those at GUADEC 6 who wrote:
"I've only been a recent GNOME user, but this conference has made me really enthusiastic
about becoming a part of it."
"Coming from the German administration, I am aware of the fact that I have been
"OSS-socialized" within a KDE environment. Therefore, it was very interesting for me
to get to now some faces and aspects of a different community."
tim
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