> > There should only be a single physical conference, GUADEC most likely, that > is held every single year. But all other events should be virtual and > online. Engagement should get together and get a list of current events and > hackfest and begin the process of converting them to virtual events. > > Let me know what the team thinks... >
I couldn't disagree more. Hackfests and summits are where a lot of our progress gets made. Getting enough interested people out of their daily routing and in a room together for one, two or three days enables the high-bandwidth communication that is needed to reach consensus around designs and direction. It also just plain fun, and keeps us together as a community of friends and not just a group of software developers who happen to work on the same piece of software. With my GTK+ maintainer hat on, the hackfest in Cambridge in April 2013 is almost solely responsible for the toolkit improvements in the last year. I do agree with is that we should strive to lower the barriers to online participation in development; a large part of that is just communication - publishing roadmaps, replying timely and constructively in bugzilla, reviewing patches, etc. But as much as we all like to think of ourselves as digital creatures, abandoning physical get-togethers is not going to help. Matthias _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
