On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 10:02:42PM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > The problem is that people who can get expenses reimbursed need to have > a focus. Sponsors need to have a focus. There needs to be a "major" > conference for these kinds of things; in other words, it has to be > billed as something more than just a bunch of people getting together, > even if that's what *all* conferences are at heart. > > If a Debian Developer's employer is willing to let them go to one trade > conference a year, expenses paid or partially paid, and the options are > "one of a dozen Debian conferences or LinuxWorld", their employers will > say "LinuxWorld". If, on the other hand, the options are "one of a dozen > Debian conferences, Debconf, and LinuxWorld", their employers will > likely allow either of the last two. True enough, but since USENIX took over Atlanta Linux Showcase, ran it for one year, and then shot it in the back of a head like a drug kingpin assassinating an unwanted lieutenant, Debian developers in the U.S., particularly the southeast, have been missing a bit of an opportunity for a gathering. I really miss ALS. -- G. Branden Robinson | The first thing the communists do Debian GNU/Linux | when they take over a country is to branden@debian.org | outlaw cockfighting. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Oklahoma State Senator John Monks
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