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

[Pedro Villavicencio Garrido <pvillavi gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 17:11 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
> 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.

+1.

Regards,

pedro.