Status update? (was Re: Starting the process for this year's Boston Summit)
Hi John. A number of us from the a11y community will be attending the AEGIS Conference in Spain. We're now in the (very early) planning stages of an associated hackfest [1] and are trying to decide if it should extend through 9 October. At least for me, the answer depends on what the plans are for the Boston Summit this year. Therefore, at the risk of being a noodge, would you happen to have any updates? Thanks in advance! Take care. --joanie [1] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/HackfestAEGIS2010 On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 10:25 -0400, John Palmieri wrote: Hello all, I'm going to be starting the process for setting up the Boston Summit. That basically means getting the space at MIT and then a budget from the board. Last year we saw an issue with the timing of other GNOME related conferences. This year we have a choice of two dates, Columbus day weekend, October 9th-11th or piggyback the weekend after the Linux Plumbers conference, November 6th-8th. I'm leaning towards keeping Columbus day weekend because it is easier to get rooms, and it reduces confusion by having it at the same time every year. The reasons for piggybacking the Plumbers conference is that a number of our fellow GNOMies will already be in Boston and we might get a few stragglers from other parts of the Linux stack to stop by and offer their perspective. I want to get the foundation members' opinion on this. Ultimately it will be up to the board to make a final decision but I plan to have a concrete date by the middle of June if not sooner. I hope you are all getting excited to reflect on the work done in the past year and plan the future of the GNOME platform. I hope to see as many of you as possible at GUADEC and the Boston Summit this year! -- John (J5) Palmieri Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Starting the process for this year's Boston Summit
On wo, 2010-05-19 at 10:25 -0400, John Palmieri wrote: Hello all, I'm going to be starting the process for setting up the Boston Summit. That basically means getting the space at MIT and then a budget from the board. Last year we saw an issue with the timing of other GNOME related conferences. This year we have a choice of two dates, Columbus day weekend, October 9th-11th or piggyback the weekend after the Linux Plumbers conference, November 6th-8th. I'm leaning towards keeping Columbus day weekend because it is easier to get rooms, and it reduces confusion by having it at the same time every year. Silently hoping for this option as well, as November is IWT project defense time for PhD students in Belgium, which would make it a Summit-no-go for me and I'd really love to attend. So please put a vote down on October for me, atleast if my vote holds any value :-) Thanks for the effort J5! Ruben -- Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv) http://www.savanne.be/ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Starting the process for this year's Boston Summit
Hi, Le mercredi 19 mai 2010, à 10:25 -0400, John Palmieri a écrit : The reasons for piggybacking the Plumbers conference is that a number of our fellow GNOMies will already be in Boston and we might get a few stragglers from other parts of the Linux stack to stop by and offer their perspective. I lean towards keeping our usual date, but if moving to November can help get more people that we'd want to have at the Summit (because it's easier for companies, from a travel budget perspective), then it's a different story. Do we have any idea how many fellow GNOMies will go to the Plumbers conference but not to Boston Summit, and who? (for example, based on people who participated to the events last year) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Starting the process for this year's Boston Summit
Hello all, I'm going to be starting the process for setting up the Boston Summit. That basically means getting the space at MIT and then a budget from the board. Last year we saw an issue with the timing of other GNOME related conferences. This year we have a choice of two dates, Columbus day weekend, October 9th-11th or piggyback the weekend after the Linux Plumbers conference, November 6th-8th. I'm leaning towards keeping Columbus day weekend because it is easier to get rooms, and it reduces confusion by having it at the same time every year. The reasons for piggybacking the Plumbers conference is that a number of our fellow GNOMies will already be in Boston and we might get a few stragglers from other parts of the Linux stack to stop by and offer their perspective. I want to get the foundation members' opinion on this. Ultimately it will be up to the board to make a final decision but I plan to have a concrete date by the middle of June if not sooner. I hope you are all getting excited to reflect on the work done in the past year and plan the future of the GNOME platform. I hope to see as many of you as possible at GUADEC and the Boston Summit this year! -- John (J5) Palmieri Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Starting the process for this year's Boston Summit
Hi John. This year we have a choice of two dates, Columbus day weekend, October 9th-11th or piggyback the weekend after the Linux Plumbers conference, November 6th-8th. Put me down in the November column. I'm leaning towards keeping Columbus day weekend because it is easier to get rooms, and it reduces confusion by having it at the same time every year. Agreed. The reasons for piggybacking the Plumbers conference is that a number of our fellow GNOMies will already be in Boston and we might get a few stragglers from other parts of the Linux stack to stop by and offer their perspective. That would be awesome. Another reason is that at least some GNOMies will be in Spain for AEGIS and coming back on the 9th. Or in the case of those in Europe, coming here on the 9th. Either way, this literally back-to-back pair of events is going to be harsh for those of us wanting to attend both. Take care. --joanie ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
