Status update? (was Re: Starting the process for this year's Boston Summit)

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi John.

A number of us from the a11y community will be attending the AEGIS
Conference in Spain. We're now in the (very early) planning stages of an
associated hackfest [1] and are trying to decide if it should extend
through 9 October. At least for me, the answer depends on what the plans
are for the Boston Summit this year.

Therefore, at the risk of being a noodge, would you happen to have any
updates?

Thanks in advance! Take care.
--joanie

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/HackfestAEGIS2010

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 10:25 -0400, John Palmieri wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm going to be starting the process for setting up the Boston Summit.
> That basically means getting the space at MIT and then a budget from
> the board.  Last year we saw an issue with the timing of other GNOME
> related conferences.  This year we have a choice of two dates,
> Columbus day weekend, October 9th-11th or piggyback the weekend after
> the Linux Plumbers conference, November 6th-8th.   
> 
> I'm leaning towards keeping Columbus day weekend because it is easier
> to get rooms, and it reduces confusion by having it at the same time
> every year.
> 
> The reasons for piggybacking the Plumbers conference is that a number
> of our fellow GNOMies will already be in Boston and we might get a few
> stragglers from other parts of the Linux stack to stop by and offer
> their perspective.
> 
> I want to get the foundation members' opinion on this.  Ultimately it
> will be up to the board to make a final decision but I plan to have a
> concrete date by the middle of June if not sooner.
> 
> I hope you are all getting excited to reflect on the work done in the
> past year and plan the future of the GNOME platform.  I hope to see as
> many of you as possible at GUADEC and the Boston Summit this year!
> 
> --
> John (J5) Palmieri
> Software Engineer
> Red Hat, Inc.