Re: Desktop Summit Planning

[Chris Kühl <blixtra gmail com>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com> wrote:
>
> 3. The GNOME community has been having trouble finding volunteers to
>   help make events successful lately.  Some people like Dave Neary,
>   Lennart Poettering, and Ekaterina Gerasimova did a great job
>   volunteering to make the last Desktop Summit a success.  However,
>   the fact that there were too few volunteers engaged caused some real
>   issues.  Many of the things GNOME folks have complained about the
>   last Desktop Summit were caused more by a lack of GNOME volunteers
>   helping than anything else.  For a Desktop Summit to be successful,
>   we need to more clearly see that the GNOME community is more
>   interested to engage and wanting to get involved.
>

Actually the number of volunteers in the organizing committee was
about even. In addition to the people you named above there was also
Patricia, Jon[1] and myself from the GNOME side.

There was probably more event volunteers from the KDE side, though.
However, we expected this being that Germany and Berlin specifically
has a strong KDE contributor community.

One thing that could be made a requirement (or at least taken heavily
into account) is that the original proposal be made cooperatively. We
GNOME folks came on board only at the first kick-off meeting. I do
think there was attempt by Claudia and Mirko to reach out to do this
but the proposal was done by them.

Cheers,
Chris

[1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653316