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

[John Palmieri <johnp redhat com>]

Hi Joanmarie,

I have sent a request to Walter Bender and am waiting to hear back from him on room availabilities.  The way MIT works is we have to go through faculty in order to secure a place to hold the conference.  I should know by the 15th if not sooner which dates we will get.  I am leaning towards November right now but since we have never held an event at MIT in November I'm not sure if we can get the room, in which case we will revert back to our usual October dates.  I'll be posting to my blog and the foundation list as soon as I get any more information.

----- "Joanmarie Diggs" <joanmarie diggs gmail com> wrote:

> 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.

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John (J5) Palmieri
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.