On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Philip Van Hoof<pvanh...@gnome.org> wrote: > > Majority wants to co-locate next year > >> * 55% collaborated with a KDE /GNOME person, 29% did not > > > You can see that in all configurations the majority want to co-locate > next year. Even if it means not having a profit. > > Can you elaborate why the board didn't first discuss this decision with > the community?
The board members actually used the poll and discussed few other points in deciding this. The main, and most important, reason for not wanting to co-locate next year is because the GNOME community needs to focus on GNOME 3.0, and next year's GUADEC will be the most sensible place to plan and do whatever finishing work needs to be done. While we support doing co-located conferences in the future, next year simply doesn't make the most sense to do this again. We need to make sure our focus is on making GNOME 3.0 a finished product and co-locating would likely be a distraction to this goal. There were few more points like preserving GUADEC and Academy as one of main conferences for GNOME and KDE respectively. We co located this year and if we do next year also, the message could be a bit different. It was a hard decision because, there is real interest in making KDE and GNOME work well together. While this is also an important goal, but we don't need to co-locate every year for this. We might have hackfests together with KDE/GNOME in the future. Board voted for not co-locating it next year, but consider co-locating in the future. Every body(board) had some opinions, thoughts behind voting for that. I felt no one in the comments/poll said that they wanted only 'KDE/GNOME Desktop summit' and not GUADEC alone. But the people who voted against it, definitely wanted only GUADEC. Its surely not a yes/no voting for a decison, but, we should take care of the entire community. For the 56% of the people, who said they want the 'Desktop summit' would still benefit out of GUADEC, and to meet these people's need we would consider colocating with KDE in future. Its just not for the next one. -Srini _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
