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

["Diego Escalante Urrelo" <diegoe gnome org>]

On 6/14/07, Bruno Boaventura <brunoboaventura gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 23:24 +0300, Lucas Rocha wrote:
> > There's a *big* difference between willing to increase collaboration
> > between GNOME and KDE and merging their main conferences in one. I
> > think this merge would bring really bad effects on our community.
> >
> > - Our conference would lose GNOMEsh identity. This is a subtle but
> > essential aspect of GUADEC: it's where/when we meet the GNOME
> > community. We cannot lose that.
> >
> > - Not everyone in GNOME community is interested in KDE. I understand
> > that we, as a free desktop project, should be interested in KDE but we
> > can't expect/enforce everyone in GNOME to think like this. Because we
> > have similar goals than KDE, this does not mean we should meet at the
> > same time and place in a generic/big free desktop conference. There
> > are better places and times for putting both projects together and the
> > really interested people will be there for sure.
> >
> > - If we're having problems on organizing our conference, let's try to
> > solve them in the best possible way in our own boundaries. IMO,
> > merging with KDE will bring more problems than solving from the
> > communities point of view. Specially on defining the agenda.
>
> Yes, Lucas... I have the same point of view about this question and I
> guess many others have too.
Me too.


> Cheers!
>
> brunobol
>
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