Re: SELF

[Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com>]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Bryen M Yunashko <a11yrocks bryen com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 13:19 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
>> The southwest is not particularly have a lot of free software people
>> in desktop.   We seem to be concentrated in Boston and Europe.
>> Portland of course has some middleware people but the only number of
>> GNOMErs is maybe Vancouver.
>
> With all due respect, I think this is not an effective way to market
> GNOME.  GNOME is a global effort and needs to be seen visibly in as many
> places as it should.  If we're only visible at places where it is
> heavily-populated by GNOMEies, then we're just preaching to the choir.
>
> We shouldn't just give up on regions where we don't seem to have
> presence, but rather increase our focus on such regions.
>
> If the Southeast is particularly quiet, that's all the more reason to go
> to SELF and be visible.  If we cannot set up a booth and send
> ambassadors there, then perhaps what we can/should do is organize or
> give tips on how to organize a GNOME Meetup at as many locations as
> possible.   How many other Jason Rowe's are going to SELF?
>
> I'll be at SELF, but working the openSUSE booth.  And FYI, KDE will also
> have a booth there.   I assumed, wrongly, that GNOME was going to have a
> booth there.  :-/
>
> Bryen
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It's the SouthEast not West Sri :)

I was thinking there actually might be some people there since the
event is in Charlotte (and Red Hat is right up the road in Raleigh).

If anyone *is* going be sure to ping me - I'd like to say hi.



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-jayson