On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:03 PM, susmit shannigrahi <thinklinux....@gmail.com> wrote: > The problem was we didn't get new faces who were interested to get > started. Otherwise, it went well. My observation is that big events > are fine for meeting old friends and get ongoing works done. But these > are not very suitable for getting new contributors q(plenty of choices > for them?) or starting a new work.
I shall disagree here. May be you will get a hall filled with students in a not so *large* conference. But what is the turnover number at such places? Consider the number of Fedora Activity days / Fedora awareness campaigns having been conducted all over India and the number of *active* Fedora contributors we have. Turnover is bad in terms of numbers for sure otherwise this list would have been already hitting 1000's At conferences such as FOSS.IN you have a selective set of people coming in. The majority (say even *vast* majority) have a specific target when they come in, and these are folks who have not been forced to sit in any talks. They came in voluntarily. So I would expect the turnover to be much higher which is atleast true wrt RTEMS this year and KDE over the past few years. KDE - Shanthanu tushar who lead the PoTD this time attended FOSS.IN 2008 first time. So did so many folks who are now active KDE contributors. I am sure Pradeepto will agree with me that FOSS.IN has produced more KDE contributors than any other random talks he has given all over India. RTEMS - I already have 2 new contributors and several requests are coming through email. Definitely in teh past of all teh lecturing I have done, people used to be enthusiastic but very few held on and actually contributed. But getting 2 new contributors in just 5 days who actually contributed patches is a good accomplishment. So there is something else that has gone wrong. We need to dig deeper. And oh, new work has always been started at large conferences. At FOSSDEM I kicked off some work, at FOSS.IN 2009 I started playing around with Adruino. So again I disagree :) What needs to be looked into is, given plenty of choices why did people not chose Fedora PoTD or becoming a Fedora Contributor? Where did the mistake happen? Still open... Regards, Aanjhan _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india