Re: SELF

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi Bryen,

On 06/02/2012 11:15 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
> 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.  :-/

This is, I think, part of the problem. Every conference I've been to has 
had a decent number of GNOME people there manning stands - the OpenSUSE 
stand, the Ubuntu stand, the Fedora stand, the Mozilla stand, the 
Collabora stand... When Sri says that "we don't have many people in the 
Sounth West", I may be wrong, but I'm betting he's thinking of corporate 
offices.

Somehow, GNOME users & developers self-identify more strongly with other 
groups than with GNOME now. Or at least, it seems that way to me. Is 
that a legacy of having more paid developers, and the unpaid 
contributors not feeling the ownership/authority to represent the brand?

I don't know if my analysis is correct, and if it is, I don't know how 
to help fix it.

All I can say is, there are a *lot* of GNOME people in the South East. 
Especially in North Carolina (there is a Red Hat office in Raleigh). But 
I don't know many of them. I know Ken Van Dine ived in that part of the 
world though - perhaps he knows more people specifically?

Cheers,
Dave.

PS. In Europe, it is the local chapters who request stand space for 
GNOME - and the GNOME Foundation is often unaware of either the 
conference or the stand. Is it a requirement to be effective that these 
requests come through us centrally? I know I've regretted that we don't 
have regional GNOME groups in the US in the past.

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
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