On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 08:52:24PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:46 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@debconf.org> wrote: > > Seriously, I wonder why we are discussing this, as we are speaking > > about exactly the same concept: larger periods of continuous (free) > > time in the schedule which people can use for hacking. But since > > they are not required to hack, why call it hacking time, rather than > > just leaving it free? > Because the name does change the way it is perceived. If you call it > "free time", then most people will just consider it "beer time". If > instead you call it "hacking time", there's still people who will go > out or do whatever, but for many it will be an opportunity to make > something useful. > Of course, nobody is going to go policing what you can and can't do, > but the name changes the expectation and the attitude for the general > attendees. I agree entirely. "Free time" means something quite different than what I believe we want to encourage at the conference. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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