Re: Free Desktop Communities come together at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 08/12/2009 04:08 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
>
> Speaking clearly, I wonder what weight in people's opinions (in the
> polls and the board meembers) had the Qt branding in badge, towel,
> roll-up ad in the main entrance, etc. Many GNOME people said they
> didn't felt 'at home' in such context. But that is something easy to
> solve in future editions.

It didn't help, but at least for me, it wasn't a huge factor.  I'm clearly in 
favor of colocated event, but I think GUADEC would suffer if we do it again 
next year.


On 08/12/2009 04:22 PM, Og Maciel wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Quim Gil<quimgil gmail com>  wrote:
> > Actually many GNOME people that was not enthusiastic about a second
> > joint summit mentioned that one of the problems was that the agenda
> > didn't help meeting peers with similar interests from the other side.
> > Something that could be achieved with a better organization of the
> > agenda, based on this year's experience.
>
> That was exactly my feeling as well. Even though we had both GNOME and
> KDE people in attendance in the same place, all sessions were
> segregated. I believe someone else mentioned that having
> desktop-agnostic tracks would have allowed everyone to see what is
> going on with banshee, amarok, etc and allow for some much needed
> information sharing.

Agreed.  The scheduling was suboptimal for a number of reasons.  One being 
that early on we decided to have two separate program committees.  This is 
because we wanted to keep the conferences separate.  We did allocate twenty 
slots for XD talks to be selected by both committees, but that was compressed 
in one morning.  Another reason being that we didn't have a definite list of 
available rooms and sizes until very last minute (move to the university, etc).

All these will improve over time, but my personal opinion, having been 
involved in the last two GUADEC organization teams, is that we can't do a 
*much* better job for next year.  When you go from GUADEC alone to co-located, 
it goes from one entity (GUADEC organizers have been GNOME contributors with 
interests aligned with that of GNOME in general) to three entities: GNOME, 
KDE, local team, each with differing interests.



behdad