Hi Bryen,
On 06/02/2012 11:15 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
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. :-/
This is, I think, part of the problem. Every conference I've been to has
had a decent number of GNOME people there manning stands - the OpenSUSE
stand, the Ubuntu stand, the Fedora stand, the Mozilla stand, the
Collabora stand... When Sri says that "we don't have many people in the
Sounth West", I may be wrong, but I'm betting he's thinking of corporate
offices.
Somehow, GNOME users & developers self-identify more strongly with other
groups than with GNOME now. Or at least, it seems that way to me. Is
that a legacy of having more paid developers, and the unpaid
contributors not feeling the ownership/authority to represent the brand?
I don't know if my analysis is correct, and if it is, I don't know how
to help fix it.
All I can say is, there are a *lot* of GNOME people in the South East.
Especially in North Carolina (there is a Red Hat office in Raleigh). But
I don't know many of them. I know Ken Van Dine ived in that part of the
world though - perhaps he knows more people specifically?
Cheers,
Dave.
PS. In Europe, it is the local chapters who request stand space for
GNOME - and the GNOME Foundation is often unaware of either the
conference or the stand. Is it a requirement to be effective that these
requests come through us centrally? I know I've regretted that we don't
have regional GNOME groups in the US in the past.
--
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
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