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

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

You are asking the wrong question. The correct question is 'do you think
more people than today would be able/interested in attending both
conferences if they are hosted in the same location back-to-back?' 

And the answer to that question is:
Yes, I do.

Christian


On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 16:01 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I'm not poo-pooing the idea completely, but let me ask the question: do
> you think many people will be able to take 2 consecutive weeks to go to
> two conferences? I know I wouldn't (the boss would probably think I was
> nuts, and the wife would kill me). I'm wondering if there are a lot of
> volunteers in the same situation as me.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>