[taking foundation-announce out of the cc: fields] On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Srinivasa Ragavan<sraga...@gnome.org> wrote:
[snippet] > 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. Would it be then appropriate to conclude that in-spite of the really positive blogs|reports from the GCDS, the underlying feeling is not conducive towards co-location ? -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work Sent from Raleigh, NC, United States _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
