Re: Desktop Summit Planning

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

Dave:

The GNOME and KDE boards are currently having some final discussions
before we announce our plans moving forward.  Please be a bit more
patient, and we will announce our plans shortly.

Also note that Ryan Lortie is working most closely on this, so he
would be the most direct person to ping about this.

Thanks for your helping and pushing us on this.

Brian


> On 12/14/2011 04:42 AM, Brian Cameron wrote:
> > The board would like for the Foundation membership to help discuss
> > and decide whether it makes sense to move forward with having a Desktop
> > Summit. Although the Desktop Summit survey results indicated a strong
> > majority were supportive of the current format, we want to want to
> > understand what plans would engage GNOME Foundation members and
> > volunteers the most. If we choose to have a Desktop Summit, we need to
> > consider how the event needs to evolve to be more effectively
> > collaborative and whether we think it should keep to the current 2-year
> > schedule.
>
> It's been a few months since this thread - and (as I've indicated
> off-list) it's making it hard to figure out whether we're going to put
> in a Lyon bid this year without knowing what the GNOME conference will
> look like in 2013.
>
> Do you have an ETA on when we might have a decision on this, Brian?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave.