The GUADEC2007 team is working on a very first draft schedule for the Core days. Maybe it's a good time to start discussing how we want to celebrate the GNOME Foundation annual general meeting.
I've been only in the last two editions and therefore I have a strong lack of perspective. However, both meetings at Stuttgart and Vilanova could be improved. THE THEORY GUADEC Core days is when more GNOME Foundation members are around, therefore it's the best time to meet. IN PRACTICE Because it's the Core days the schedule is very busy, there are lots of talks and everybody is finding ol' friends in the corridors. Night life is also intense specially these days. The AGM is located in a whole in the schedule, 1h at midday. The result is that just a few people come by, there is not much time for participation after the board has reported what needs to report in an AGM and not much energies anyway. At the end of the AGM everybody leaves the room going to the next talk with a kind of unsatisfactory feeling. SUGGESTION - Let's schedule the AGM the afternoon or even early evening before the Core days start. - Let's have at least 2h scheduled with a possibility to extend the time for those enjoying the conversation. - Let's work together the agenda, forwarding to this mailing list most of the information that can be better delivered here in order to discuss more and better those topics that can better approached live & life. PS: this is a personal proposal, not something agreed or discussed previously by the board. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list