Re: [guadec-list] Re: Barcelona report

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 16:45 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="The Face of Sun Microsystems">
> 
> > > I'd also like some (or even one) real beginner talks to sell GNOME to
> > > complete newbies, telling people what GNOME is, what it looks/feels
> > > like, and what it can do. But that's just a question of someone
> > > proposing such talks and the papers committee accepting them.
> > 
> > So this is cool and I do agree. I'm just not completely convinced GUADEC
> > is a good audience for this. It seems like these would be more appropriate
> > at other conferences, and we should be pushing them there.
> 
> Agree. Potential contributers aren't already at GUADEC. They're at a host of
> other FOSS/Linux events around the world. And that's where we're going to
> get them.

Yeah, that makes sense, and should be done. I'd just like us to be more
interesting if we keep trying to do attract users and
government-bureaucrats.

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