Claus, thanks for this long telegram. > One thing that could make a difference to government people is, for > example Worries and uncertainities from governments and IT people in Barcelona/Catalonia/Spain that a GUADEC could help to clarify are for example... - Massive migrations from Windows to free software (in the public administrations, schools... thousends of users affectes). The desktop is key. "Is it true that KDE is easier than GNOME for Windows users"? What would be the recommendations of the GNOME experts? - Distro choice. Another nightmare. GUADEC can give a GNOME perspective, making sure that whatever you choose please be it GNOME based because this is what most of your users will see and click on a daily basis. - Who can talk to them about real success cases of large deployments where GNOME was chosen because of this and that. Decision makers in Spain are rather scared because the volunty of moving to free software has been already formulated but there is a need to find precedents ans above all success. They don't want to be so innovative, going ahead before anybody else. They want to feel trust and trusted, this is why real experiences are important. - The economic perspective of all this. They are used to pay for licenses and developments in languages most programmers know because there is market for them and the university tell to students to learn those languages. But hey, here comes the free software with other economic paradigm, other languages and... what is GTK and why is it so relevant to GNOME? Can those languages around GNOME solve my problems and how? - Also a better dialog between the pubic administrations and the free software community could be pushed in the GUADEC. We could give them some recommendations about useful steps they could do for the community. They know the obvious: migrate to free software, promote it publicly... But there are other aspects they possibly ignore. What are they? > I noted there will be *very* interesting workshops the weekend > before but I don't speak spanish or catalan, and I have no time to > visit spain for a whole week or two weekends. These local workshops are the kind of sub-event that could be organized with or without GUADEC at a regional / national level anytime, anywhere, with a low budget and the other aspects Luis & co explained in previous messages (and GNOME Hispano & co are putting in practice every year). -- Quim Gil http://interactors.coop | http://desdeamericaconamor.org
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