Re: GNUstep developer meeting in January

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

why rant? Why feel sabotaged?

The target of these developer clear: get in sync, plan, develop; The goal is
clearly production.
Furthermore they allow for a clear planning of some development time.
Both Fred and Nikolaus expressed opinions that I can jsut share fully, but
let me explain a bit more of the backogrund

The date before Fosdem was choosen to be actually prepared for Fosdem! When
I started organizing the meeting, I didn't even know we had no booth at
Fosdem. I can go even further that we started planning for November and
December, but had to procrastinate to January. Back then it was not even
clear if we were at Fosdem at all.

I even planned to be at both events and stand at the Fosdem booth to show
off applications and evangelize people. Unfortunately it is unlikely I'm
going to make it for Fosdem, but the last word is not said yet.

distress, have an Asbach Uralt (self-imported from Germany...)

Riccardo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf" <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de>
To: "Riccardo" <multix@ngi.it>; "Discuss-gnustep Discuss"
<discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: GNUstep developer meeting in January


<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.


Sorry if that sounded rude but I just had to say this.


regards,

Lars