Re: FOSDEM 2008

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:58:53AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 07:50:52PM +0000, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 07 Nov 2007 20:20:54 +0100, a écrit :

> > > If we want to stay in an appartment this year, instead of again
> > > staying in a youth hostel, we'd need someone to organize that.
> > 
> > No news about this?
> 
> Not from my side, no.  But as long as we don't even know who'll be
> attending FOSDEM, we can't make any decision whether to rent an
> appartement or not, in my opinion.

It is hard enough to get people to commit if you already have stuff
organized. It's hopeless if you are still in "we could..." phase.
Really. I've seen it often in other similar cases. You can tell people
five times in a row that you need them to commit. You can whine as much
as you want that you can't plan without prior commitment. It won't help.

There is always some uncertainty in such matters. But I have little
doubt we could get a reasonable number of people together *if* somebody
would actually take up organising it. It's all about taking initiative.
However it seems there is nobody able and/or willing to do so, and
consequently the matter is pretty much settled...

-antrik-