Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > Over the years, GNOME community events have grown in frequency, size > and the expectations of hosting professional quality events. It is a > challenge for a volunteer community to keep up with consistently year > after year. Currently, e

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 17:08 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: > [...] > Yes, as you might remember, we have had difficulties organizing the > Boston Summit this past year, ending up relocating the event to > Montreal rather last minute. Also, most of the volunteers who have > made GNOME.Asia successful

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Gil Forcada
El dt 13 de 12 de 2011 a les 21:42 -0600, en/na Brian Cameron va escriure: > GNOME Foundation Members: () > 3. The GNOME community has been having trouble finding volunteers to > help make events successful lately. Some people like Dave Neary, > Lennart Poettering, and Ekaterina Gera

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Brian Cameron
Foundation: A point of clarification: On Wed 14 Dec 2011 04:42, Brian Cameron writes: 3. The GNOME community has been having trouble finding volunteers to help make events successful lately. You mention that we had a problem with this in the last Desktop Summit. Has this been a proble

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 09:42:28PM -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: > The biggest complaints about the Desktop Summit seem to be: I don't want to miss out on GUADEC. And a Desktop Summit is not a GUADEC. > In discussion, the following options have been suggested as ways to > improve the event. > > 1.

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 08:02:32PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:20:18AM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > > You mention that we had a problem with this in the last Desktop Summit. > > Has this been a problem in other events as well? > > The board specifically requested GNOME-NL

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:20:18AM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > You mention that we had a problem with this in the last Desktop Summit. > Has this been a problem in other events as well? The board specifically requested GNOME-NL to hold GUADEC. -- Regards, Olav

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Piñeiro
On 12/14/2011 04:42 AM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > > 1. To not have a large combined GNOME+KDE event, and to instead have >a smaller Desktop Summit or focused hackfest(s) with a more clear >agenda to work on specific and measurable collaborative tasks. >GUADEC and Akademy would continue a

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Allan Day
Hi Dave, On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi Brian, > > > On 12/14/2011 04:42 AM, Brian Cameron wrote: >> >> At the October 26th IRC meeting, Jon McCann spoke about his concerns >> about the Desktop Summit.[2] At the November 23rd meeting, Dave Neary >> (who was also very inv

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Patricia Santana Cruz
Aloha, 2011/12/14 Lennart Poettering > On Tue, 13.12.11 21:42, Brian Cameron (brian.came...@oracle.com) wrote: > > Heya, > > > 1. It subtracts momentum from the GNOME brand and community. With > >GNOME 3 to focus on, the community needs to more focus on making > >GNOME 3 a success, less

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 14.12.11 13:12, Dave Neary (dne...@gnome.org) wrote: > In my mind, GNOME's gotten to the point where those high-bandwidth, > planning the future discussions (points 2 and 5) have gone beyond > what we traditionally thought of as the GNOME project. > > Just look at where key GNOME contribu

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 13.12.11 21:42, Brian Cameron (brian.came...@oracle.com) wrote: Heya, > 1. It subtracts momentum from the GNOME brand and community. With >GNOME 3 to focus on, the community needs to more focus on making >GNOME 3 a success, less on collaboration. I ran the paper committee in Ber

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Brian, On 12/14/2011 04:42 AM, Brian Cameron wrote: At the October 26th IRC meeting, Jon McCann spoke about his concerns about the Desktop Summit.[2] At the November 23rd meeting, Dave Neary (who was also very involved in making the past Desktop Summit happen), highlighted that there are real

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Chris Kühl
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > 3. The GNOME community has been having trouble finding volunteers to >   help make events successful lately.  Some people like Dave Neary, >   Lennart Poettering, and Ekaterina Gerasimova did a great job >   volunteering to make the last De

Re: Desktop Summit Planning

2011-12-14 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Brian, A point of clarification: On Wed 14 Dec 2011 04:42, Brian Cameron writes: > 3. The GNOME community has been having trouble finding volunteers to >help make events successful lately. You mention that we had a problem with this in the last Desktop Summit. Has this been a problem in