Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

On 03/11/2011 09:28 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Frederic Muller wrote:
> > It seems that there are 2 options and the identify.kde.org choice was
> > taken out of convenience for one party. Why not chose the neutral option
> > being fair for both sides instead and avoiding the issue of GNOME asking
> > it's user to register at identify.kde.org instead?
> >
> > That's seems to be a much more logical choice, no?
> The people who advocated for this decision when it came up felt that the
> domain name would not make a big difference, and that the important
> thing was to use a well established architecture.
A lack of manpower to help with the infrastructure was also a big factor.
We're all volunteers who set this up [1] and we really wanted to get the 
call of papers up in time to actually get any talks at all. :)

1. This is also why the design of the website is kind of crap (there is 
not footer design like on the holding page for example, and the css is a 
joke). I was so stressed out when doing that :(
- Andreas