On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Brian Cameron <brian.came...@oracle.com> wrote: > > 3. The GNOME community has been having trouble finding volunteers to > help make events successful lately. Some people like Dave Neary, > Lennart Poettering, and Ekaterina Gerasimova did a great job > volunteering to make the last Desktop Summit a success. However, > the fact that there were too few volunteers engaged caused some real > issues. Many of the things GNOME folks have complained about the > last Desktop Summit were caused more by a lack of GNOME volunteers > helping than anything else. For a Desktop Summit to be successful, > we need to more clearly see that the GNOME community is more > interested to engage and wanting to get involved. >
Actually the number of volunteers in the organizing committee was about even. In addition to the people you named above there was also Patricia, Jon[1] and myself from the GNOME side. There was probably more event volunteers from the KDE side, though. However, we expected this being that Germany and Berlin specifically has a strong KDE contributor community. One thing that could be made a requirement (or at least taken heavily into account) is that the original proposal be made cooperatively. We GNOME folks came on board only at the first kick-off meeting. I do think there was attempt by Claudia and Mirko to reach out to do this but the proposal was done by them. Cheers, Chris [1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653316 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list