That could absolutely be an option, I will suggest it to the right person. Thanks the advice meg.
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 8:25 PM, meg ford <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you thought about asking academics to talk specifically about > research that uses tools created by the GNOME community? For example iirc > CMU Sphinx uses GStreamer in the backend, CERN runs Scientific Linux, etc. > I think there are many other academic projects which rely on GNOME or other > GNU technologies. > > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Oliver Propst > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> We had actually thought about co-host with oss, the premier academic open >> source conference but that did not turned out because the confrance was >> already booked for 2015 [1]. >> >> 1.http://oss2012.cs.tut.fi/ >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Michael Hasselmann < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 23:44 +0100, Tobias Mueller wrote: >>> > Hi :) >>> > >>> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 07:12:08PM +0100, Oliver Propst wrote: >>> > > To my knowledge this have not been done before at GUADEC and I'm not >>> > > sure how well it would fit within the overall program, on the other >>> > > hand it may provide a nice contrast to the other more product >>> oriented >>> > > talks. What do you others think about it? >>> > > >>> > Sounds interesting. Could turn out to be very boring or very >>> fascinating. >>> > Spontaneously, I'd say: Go ahead, try it out. But a discussion about >>> it might be interesting. >>> >>> Why not go for a co-located event and invite those attending GUADEC to >>> your own event? That way, you don't have to compromise yourself to "fit" >>> under the GNOME umbrella but still get the benefit of discussing >>> academic-related open-source stuff with experts that would attend GUADEC >>> anyway. >>> >>> ciao Michael >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> -mvh Oliver Propst >> >> _______________________________________________ >> guadec-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list >> >> > -- -mvh Oliver Propst
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