Re: SELF

[Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com>]

Just wanted to follow-up by saying that the Fedora booth (where I hung
out a bit) had quite a few different GNOME stickers to give out, and I
talked about GNOME with as many folks as I could. There was also an
awesome moment in the evening keynote Saturday when Steven J
Vaughn-Nichols was "shocked" when so many GNOME users raised their
hands when he asked how many users of each DE was there (this was
after he touted KDE as the #1 desktop currently based on some survey
he found). We had the strongest showing among the hand-raisers ;-)

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
> 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
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-jayson