On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 20:06 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> This is what I get for answering email while drinking wine:
>
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> Let me rephrase:
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> I have done the GNOME booth at OSCON for the first 3 years of OSCON,
> but I haven't done it after that because I find that the audience is
> very web/LAMP based. The desktop is not really of interest for a lot
> of people. The audience are more interested in applications that use
> cloud software, cloud software, databases, and system stuff and the
> like. Plus I find the whole schmooze thing kind of tedious and while
> I'm a champion schmoozer I actually need material that people would
> actually find interest.
>
>
> In the futuer, we want to target Open Source Bridge which is truly a
> good general purpose conference since it can tackle a lot of different
> topics. It is a lot smaller unfortunately. There is also Northwest
> Linuxfset I think in Seattle, but that is done already. Linuxfest
> folks showed interest in having a track on GNOME but I was not able to
> find the time to set something up.
>
>
> Back to OSCON, the only thing I have planned is an evening with local
> OSS folks with Stormy. Although her time is somewhat limited I hope
> to have one short evening so that she can get to know the local
> fokls. We have some local GNOME folks (or rather some ex GNOME folks)
> and a crap load of kernel developers and Mozilla folks. We have a
> good time. :) (ask the ubuntu folks!) It might also be a good time
> to discuss strategy in marketing if we want to do that. Are you local
> or an attendee? If there is interest I can set up a BOF.. but a
> booth I think is a waste of time.
> Thanks,
> sri
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <
sri ramkrishna me>
> wrote:
> I could volunteer.. I used to do the OSCON booth.. GNOME3
> stuff might be cool. Not sure if there is enough time to
> setup a vendor booth though. Stormy will be there and I was
> going to set up an evening with local OSS folks here in
> Portland, that's the only thing I've planned.
>
>
> In general, I stopped doing it because the audience is really
> geared towards LAMP and I find the hype tedious. I much
> rather schmooze (which is what OSCON is good for) Are you
> local? What do you prefer?
>
>
> sri
>
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> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Larry Cafiero
> <
larry cafiero gmail com> wrote:
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> Hi, folks --
>
> Is there going to be any GNOME presence at OSCON, and
> if so, who gets the event box and banner?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Larry Cafiero
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