On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 22:57 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> GNOME is People. Do you have any evidence that the Moroccan *people*
> are opposed to the values GNOME stands for?
>
> I think the Moroccan *people* are not the issue.
>
> "Those people have an oppressing
> regime, ignore
> Where in the world with the highest concentration of GNOME and KDE
> community? This thread has so far been considering the GNOME community
> only.
Both communities have their strongest presence in Europe.
- Jeff
--
GUADEC 2008: Istanbul, Turkey http://www.guadec.org
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:33 -0400, Clare So wrote:
>
> Where in the world with the highest concentration of GNOME and KDE
> community? This thread has so far been considering the GNOME
> community only.
KDE is even more Euro-centric
--
behdad
http://behdad.org/
"Those who would give up Essent
> As for me, the reason not pushing for Canada is that a GNOME community
> in Canada is surprisingly non-existent. Sure, there's you, me, and
> desrt. But that's pretty much it.
Is there anyone from Western Canada? You, me, desrt and Hub are
living in the Eastern part of the country.
I agre
- US visa. It's a real issue. It's not a predictable and fast
process like most European countries are. It literally takes months to
get a US visa for those of us that need one. And many people going to
GUADEC need one.
I think it would be a good thing for GNOME to make a pro
GNOME is People. Do you have any evidence that the Moroccan *people*
are opposed to the values GNOME stands for?
I think the Moroccan *people* are not the issue.
"Those people have an oppressing
regime, ignore them" is not a really compelling idea to me.
If the purpose of hold
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Germán Poó-Caamaño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > For what it is worth, we have discussed GUADLAC in previous years (I
> > think as far back as 2004, maybe 2003?) but it typically foundered on
> > travel costs, which were always unacceptably high for some la
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 18:16 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Boaventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Jonh Wendell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Oh, It would be really, really, amazing!
> > >
> > > GUADLAC, as Behdad sugge
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 15:12 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:43 -0400, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:03 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > >
> > > Except that we have been advertising it as "GUADEC, The GNOME
> > > Conference" for the past couple of ye
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:42 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> An aside: some of my preferred locations for GUADEC would be (planting
> ideas in the heads of possible organisers):
>
> Amsterdam
> Frankfurt
> Paris
> Brussels
> Geneva
> Milan
FYI, Akademy is in Belgium this year.
Hub
_
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Bruno Boaventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Jonh Wendell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Oh, It would be really, really, amazing!
> >
> > GUADLAC, as Behdad suggested. A GNOME Conference in Americas, with the
> > same struc
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Jonh Wendell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh, It would be really, really, amazing!
>
> GUADLAC, as Behdad suggested. A GNOME Conference in Americas, with the
> same structure as GUADEC (aka sponsorship).
>
> /me wonders about a huge GNOME crowd here in Brazil.
Hi,
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> For the first time we also invite proposals to hold GUADEC and Akademy,
> the KDE community conference, at the same time, in the same location.
> Proposals should detail plans for hosting up to 800 attendees, with
> separate facilities available for Akademy and GUADEC
Hey
On 4/22/08, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:38 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote:
> >
>
> > I too would appreciate another North/Central/South America based
> > conference if GUADEC can't be moved across the pond occasionally.
> > However, I suspect that beca
Em Ter, 2008-04-22 às 12:13 -0700, Ted Gould escreveu:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:38 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Usa isn't the only country in North America. Maybe Canada or Mexico
> > > has less strict rules ab
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 15:43 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 20:34 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> > Usa isn't the only country in North America. Maybe Canada or Mexico
> > has less strict rules about visas? It is not hard to imagine that the
> > Americans might feel that it is a
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 20:34 +0200, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> Usa isn't the only country in North America. Maybe Canada or Mexico
> has less strict rules about visas? It is not hard to imagine that the
> Americans might feel that it is a little unfair that guadec always is
> in Europe.
This American
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 22:42 +0300, Quim Gil wrote:
> Cool!
>
> Proposed location for the first joint GUADEC/aKademy:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth ;)
>
> (Alternative, sunny locations come to mind though)
/me suggests that foundation hire Quim to do GUADEC's
Cool!
Proposed location for the first joint GUADEC/aKademy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth ;)
(Alternative, sunny locations come to mind though)
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Note also that Summer is probably the
>
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Ted Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:38 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Usa isn't the only country in North America. Maybe Canada or Mexico
> > > has le
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:38 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote:
>
> I too would appreciate another North/Central/South America based
> conference if GUADEC can't be moved across the pond occasionally.
> However, I suspect that because the GNOME summit is held in Boston
> every year we will have to make d
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 19:03 +, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > About GUADEC out of Europe, that's fine as long as the place is Ok for
> > travel. Bangalore has the same problem that US has. Too far... That
> > said,
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:38 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Usa isn't the only country in North America. Maybe Canada or Mexico
> > has less strict rules about visas? It is not hard to imagine that the
> > Americans mi
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:43 -0400, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:03 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> >
> > Except that we have been advertising it as "GUADEC, The GNOME
> > Conference" for the past couple of years. Maybe we should make that
> > official.
> >
> > About GUADEC o
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 04:38 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > Americans might feel that it is a little unfair that guadec always
> is in
> > Europe. Couldn't there be two conferences?
>
> GUADEC and the Boston Summit. :-)
Except that we don't pay for travel to Boston Summit.
We are launching GN
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> About GUADEC out of Europe, that's fine as long as the place is Ok for
> travel. Bangalore has the same problem that US has. Too far... That
> said, I love to see GUADEC '11 in Morocco for example...
I wouldn't. GN
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:42 -0300, Jonh Wendell wrote:
> Hi, folks.
>
> FISL - the biggest FLOSS event in Brazil - is over.
Thank you bunches John for representing GNOME at the event, blogging
regularly about it, and sending this update!
Cheers,
behdad
> Thanks to Foundation, GNOME was repre
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:03 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
> Except that we have been advertising it as "GUADEC, The GNOME
> Conference" for the past couple of years. Maybe we should make that
> official.
>
> About GUADEC out of Europe, that's fine as long as the place is Ok for
> travel. Ban
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Thomas Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's something I think might be useful:
>
> If we had a list of where everyone attending aKademy and GUADEC will
> come from (which might be decently approximated by seeing where they
> came from last year), we can
> Americans might feel that it is a little unfair that guadec always is in
> Europe. Couldn't there be two conferences?
GUADEC and the Boston Summit. :-)
- Jeff
--
OSCON 2008: Portland OR, USA http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/
"Imagine a four million line code base that i
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM, BJörn Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Usa isn't the only country in North America. Maybe Canada or Mexico
> has less strict rules about visas? It is not hard to imagine that the
> Americans might feel that it is a little unfair that guadec always is
> in E
Usa isn't the only country in North America. Maybe Canada or Mexico
has less strict rules about visas? It is not hard to imagine that the
Americans might feel that it is a little unfair that guadec always is
in Europe. Couldn't there be two conferences?
2008/4/22, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED
The boards of KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation have issued a call to
co-host Akademy and GUADEC, the flagship conferences of the KDE and
GNOME projects respectively, during the Summer of 2009.
This would be the first time that the conferences are to be co-hosted.
The combined conference is expect
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 03:41 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > Is the rule about having GUADEC in Europe rather than, say, in
> Bangalore
> > still in play, by the way?
>
> The 'E' still stands for Europe, yeah. ;-)
Except that we have been advertising it as "GUADEC, The GNOME
Conference" for th
>
>
> > Is the rule about having GUADEC in Europe rather than, say, in Bangalore
> > still in play, by the way?
>
> The 'E' still stands for Europe, yeah. ;-)
Aha, was this more in reference to the text of the CfH? In that case, it's a
minor disconnect between norms of each organisation and c
> Is the rule about having GUADEC in Europe rather than, say, in Bangalore
> still in play, by the way?
The 'E' still stands for Europe, yeah. ;-)
- Jeff
--
GUADEC 2008: Istanbul, Turkey http://www.guadec.org/
"The two [separate] UIs are both incredibly simple and
Hi Behdad,
Thanks for the quick reply.
> - US visa. It's a real issue. It's not a predictable and fast
> process like most European countries are. It literally takes months to
> get a US visa for those of us that need one. And many people going to
> GUADEC need one.
Unfortunately you're
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:24:06PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> There are two main issues with having GUADEC in the US:
>
> - The Big Pond. It's just more travel to fly everyone to the US.
>
> - US visa. It's a real issue. It's not a predictable and fast
> process like most European cou
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 13:17 -0400, Og Maciel wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> As I'd love to see GUADEC (as well as Akademy) being hosted in North
> Carolina, and as this is not an official bid, I was wondering if there
> is anyone interested in helping/coaching me? I don't have any
> experience with this k
Hi there,
As I'd love to see GUADEC (as well as Akademy) being hosted in North
Carolina, and as this is not an official bid, I was wondering if there
is anyone interested in helping/coaching me? I don't have any
experience with this kind of activity, but I do know a lot of people
and we have big c
Call for hosts for GUADEC 2009
==
The GNOME Foundation invites proposals to host GUADEC, the annual GNOME
conference, during the Summer of 2009. GUADEC is the biggest gathering
of GNOME users and developers and includes a three-day conference, the
annual general meetin
Hi, folks.
FISL - the biggest FLOSS event in Brazil - is over.
Thanks to Foundation, GNOME was represented there, with a talk and a
booth. Lots of people stopped at our booth to have a chat with us,
mainly asking for our presence in other events and asking how to
contribute.
I would like to than
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