Hi everyone! On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Petri Räsänen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Questions to ask are > (1) where is Free Software in most need of support? > > The community-building card has been the defining factor for France vs > UK for example. But I didn't expect to see it played by Finland or > Spain bids, given how integrated Nokia and Igalia are in the GNOME > ecosystem. Gran Canaria on the other hand... ;). > > Although Nokia is an active player, we got to remember that it is not the > whole community even here. > There are signals that there is a new generation of hackers growing in the > universities etc at the moment, and currently they often have no direct > connections with the corporate world, Nokia or others. For them this event > would be a great opportunity to get involved in the community. And vice > versa; New blood, new drive!
Before the board(s) make the decision I must remind them that this is a very important point. During my stay in Finland for the past 3 years I've observed that there is a big amount of extremely talented potential contributors in Finland who don't just have any motivation to contribute and therefore do not. We could blame the Finnish culture for that :) but lets not getting into blame game and keep in mind that such conferences would be great opportunities for motivating these contributors to contribute as they'll be able to get to know of practical benefits of working with/for community in these conferences. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali Khattak FSF member#5124 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
