Hi Bryen,
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Bryen M Yunashko <a11yro...@bryen.com>wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 13:19 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > The southwest is not particularly have a lot of free software people > > in desktop. We seem to be concentrated in Boston and Europe. > > Portland of course has some middleware people but the only number of > > GNOMErs is maybe Vancouver. > > With all due respect, I think this is not an effective way to market > GNOME. GNOME is a global effort and needs to be seen visibly in as many > places as it should. If we're only visible at places where it is > heavily-populated by GNOMEies, then we're just preaching to the choir. > > We shouldn't just give up on regions where we don't seem to have > presence, but rather increase our focus on such regions. > > I agree. I was only making an observation on where people are. I thought the question was whether there were any GNOME people in the southeast. But I was not aware of any. I was stating a situation, not a policy of abandonment of a region. :-) > If the Southeast is particularly quiet, that's all the more reason to go > to SELF and be visible. If we cannot set up a booth and send > ambassadors there, then perhaps what we can/should do is organize or > give tips on how to organize a GNOME Meetup at as many locations as > possible. How many other Jason Rowe's are going to SELF? > > That would be great if we knew of local volunteers? > I'll be at SELF, but working the openSUSE booth. And FYI, KDE will also > have a booth there. I assumed, wrongly, that GNOME was going to have a > booth there. :-/ > > It would be nice if we had one! sri
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