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

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:55 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
> 
> I'd *love* to get to the stage where we could outsource the conference, but the
> last time we did that and outsourced an expo day, it was a bit of a disaster.
> Financially we're probably not in the position to do this either if people are
> expecting the conference to be free.

But with the greater funding opportunity that is expected to come with
joining forces, we may be able to hire two contributors to work on it
fulltime for a few months.  Definitely possible in the less expensive
European countries which are more likely to host GUADEC in the coming
years, given that we've only had Western Europe countries so far.

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