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

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 13:02 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> 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

This is also becoming increasingly costly as we've slid the event into
the "high" travel season of the summer.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.