On Fri, 23 May 2003 17:33:58 -0700 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com> wrote: > "Debconf" is about Debian developers trying to meet other devels and users. > Its about trying to make us a stronger organization. Its about hacking and > all of the other reasons we love Debian. > > Treating it like a Comdex, a Linux World or anything else just seems wrong. 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. > Developers should feel encouraged to declare a conference whenever and > whereever they can make one. If one of us can organize a meet and people > will show up that makes a conference. Of course, but "Debconf" is a specific term. If you're arguing that it isn't, then we need to come up with another one, that denotes an annual Debian conference that's official in nature :) See above. I'm really not trying to say that people can't get together when they want to. Just saying that having something people can *focus* on is a benefit to the community. So an annual or semi-annual Debconf is good, even if all that _really_ distinguishes it from the rest is that we don't call two conferences "Debconf" within the same six/tweleve-month time frame :)
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