Re: [Fwd: Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC T-Shirts]

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Hi,

Quim Gil wrote:
> Retouch or not retouch, both are valid alternatives. This is only a tag
> cloud, not the GNOME Bible. These tags don't even refer to the talks
> schedules, but all the sessions submitted. The tag reflects the terms
> selected by people from a collection of tags available, nothing else.
> The Maemo or the Mono tags are big just because this year many people
> decided that the content they had submitted had a relation with such
> terms. Instead, only 2 people seem to have published content related to
> accessibility or Solaris, and not even they claimed that. Tag clouds
> promote the majorities and also the big minorities, but wipes out the
> small minorities. Now we see the effects.

Well, it wasn't very obvious that tagging was any way important on the 
website when submitting proposals - nor very clear how to do that. 
Anyway, I don't really care one way or another, but you certainly risk 
alienating the 'small minority' especially when it comes to printing 
tshirts that you expect everyone to wear.



Glynn