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Re: Love & Peace!
by free software user on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @13:00

I am a big KDE fan and I respect the Gnome project and it's user.
but I disagree is a good idea to hold both event together.

gnome developers should be welcome at Akademy and KDE developers welcome at GUADEC, but that does not means we should do both at the same time.

totally disagree.

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Re: Love & Peace!
by T. J. Brumfield on Wednesday 23/Apr/2008, @17:34

It demonstrates solidarity, not in a few attending the other's conference, but in the leadership of both communities coming together so visibily.

And I'm sure certain workshops will heavily touch on common ground. Not to mention, holding two conferences and expecting people to attend both is a drain on the people attending both, asking for time away from work, travel money, etc.

This makes it much more feasible to attend both.

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Re: Love & Peace!
by cies breijs on Sunday 27/Apr/2008, @00:09

hi "free software user", a.k.a. anonymous coward..

you disagree but you give no reasons: poor mans posting styles..

you talk about "should", and "agree", but have you ever been to free software community conferences? to kde conferences?

yr post is hollow imho.

i think the joined conference is a great idea! this can truely bring the communities together. as many have pointed out: face to face contact is very important for large communities... (and that is a 'reason' dear free software user)

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Re: Love & Peace!
by Repre Hensor on Sunday 27/Apr/2008, @04:57

Cies,

did you even closely read the announcement, with enough attention to grokk its *details*?

No-where does it mention a "joined conference" (or a "joint" conference, in case you mis-spelled what you meant).

It talks about co-hosting 2 conferences at the same place, during the same time, with possible over-lap in a few joint, common conference sessions.

But making it a reality (which I personally would like to see) depends on 3 things:

* someone (or several) submits a proposal that can suite the requirements.
* the GNOME community accepts the actual submission for their own part.
* the KDE community accepts the actual submission too.

In reality it can still happen that GNOME receives a 2009 submission which turns out really compelling for them but that is limited to a GNOME-only conference. And the same can happen to KDE. And then it may occur that either one of the two communities picks to go for one of these, deciding by a majority vote (or whatever mechanism each community follows to reach a decision about their annual get-together event location).

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