Re: GNUstep developer meeting in January

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi Lars,

Nikolaus already explained, why there is no direct competition between
the developer meeting at Bergamo and FOSDEM. Last year he tried to
arrange a developer gettogether the day before FOSDEM and it ended up
with just me and him sitting in that horrible hotel lobby trying to find
out where everybody else was. Better to keep those two events separate.

Fred


Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> <rant>
> What actually is the point in this? I think this will effectively
> distracting possible attendees from FOSDEM because it is so close by
> (timewise)
> 
> The points for FOSDEM are (IMHO):
> 
> - it is located more centrally in Europe (means easier or equally
> difficult to reach)
> - we have some public visibility (which means sending the signal:
> "GNUstep is alive and well") besides the meeting opportunity (there we
> also can have "nice development and debugging sessions", it's just up to
> us).
> - we got a developers room for free there where we can meet (no need to
> *rent* a room)
> 
> I really don't understand why everybody in our community (are we still
> one?) tries to "cook his own soup" (as a german saying goes) by
> splitting up our forces (I guess nobody will have the time and the money
> to attend every of those proposed meetings). I feel a little bit
> sabotaged …
> </rant>
> 
> … but maybe there's no interest in FOSDEM at all and I should cancel the
> event so that FOSDEM can give the room to some other project before it's
> to late for them.
> 
> Or maybe people don't feel good with me organizing the event and
> somebody else wants to take over. If so please drop me a mail and I will
> hand everything over.