[guadec-list] Re: poor man's SWOT analysis of GUADEC

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

> Opportunities:
> * no one else is really effectively reaching out to governments in
> most of the world, talking specifically about free software desktops
> as either a tool for them to use, or as a means of national economic
> empowerment
> * continue to see large deployments and corporate interest that we
> should be able to leverage- sun, real, nokia, in successive years- who
> will be next year's big news?
> * lots of interest outside the first world- india, indonesia, etc.
> * still large bodies of potential volunteers to reach out to, ISVs to
> speak to, companies to fundraise from, etc., etc.

Interest from others in building desktop conferences up (eg with OLS)