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

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 11:04 -0400, Claudio Saavedra wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 16:01 +0200, Dave Neary 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. 
> 
> FWIW, that's what people attending GUADEC-es has been doing for the last
> years: attending GUADEC-es during week n, and then GUADEC during the
> week n+1. And that includes people traveling from South America.
> 
> I'd say that people who have organized GUADEC-es in the past can give
> more feedback on how good results have they got with this approach of
> organizing the conference in a very close date to GUADEC.
> 
not from the organization, but I know it has helped, at least, in having
more latin-americans in GUADEC-ES than if it were not that close to
GUADEC.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>