On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 11:21 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:Boston Summit is between hackfest and unconference. It is about 35-50
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Stormy Peters <stormy peters gmail com>wrote:
>
> > In addition to GNOME folks willing to host (yeah, Sri!) there is also a
> > large, active open source community in Portland so we might draw new people
> > or people that haven't been able to travel to Europe or Boston.
> >
> >
> This is true. Portland has a very large presence of many open source based
> start ups as well as established companies like Intel and IBM who have open
> source teams. Intel for instance has all their Xorg hackers here. We have
> some Red Hatters, people who work on filesystems, and many kernel folks.
>
> So you'll have a large community to interact with. I'm well known in the
> Portland open source community as I manage our "beerings". In fact it was
> from the beerings that Linux Plumbers Conference was born.
>
> I also have access to an events coordinator as well as my old plumbers team
> to ask for advice. I dont know mucha bout the logistics - how many people
> generally come?
people.
One of the benefits of Boston is that MIT traditionally had lent the
venue for free during Columbus Day.
You can get an idea from the old wiki pages:
https://live.gnome.org/Boston2012
https://live.gnome.org/Boston2012/Participants
https://live.gnome.org/Montreal2011/Participants
https://live.gnome.org/Boston2010/Participants