On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 06:59:34PM +0100, Moray Allan wrote: > > Another point about shortening: > > It is sad to say it, but it is clear that in most years Debian Day > hasn't turned out that well compared to what has been hoped, and > compared to the amount of work put into organising it. It has taken > a lot of effort/attention from volunteers, but the attendance has > sometimes been very low. In the last few years we have tried to > warn the local team members about this and encourage better > advertising longer in advance, but is it time to admit that it just > doesn't work well as a job for the DebConf local team or as part of > DebConf organisation? >
Agreed, from my perceptions: 2012 - I watched it via streaming. The rooms were empty despite DebianDay being in a big city. I recognised a bunch of Debian people in the public. 2011 - I only attended during the morning to the politicans part and while it was crowded, it was with debian people mostly. The talks in the evening were in English so I don't know how much they were accesible to the locals. 2010 - This Debian Day felt like a normal Debconf day. 2009 - I organized the talks for this day. It was in Spanish. There were very few attendance. I know the talks have been watched for a lot of people but they could have been held in a Spanish Debconf (aka dudesconf) perfectly. 2008 - It was held post-debconf and in Buenos Aires in a Monday. Most of DebConf attendes were already going back to home. I have not idea how it went. 2007 - I can't remember about this one. 2006 - I arrived during that day but given how far was Oaxtepec from Mexico DC I think there weren't too much people. So this year, if we do it in le camp or interlaken, I don't expect a big audience. If we do it in $BIG_CITY it will pretty much be an event that can be held separately from DebConf. Ana _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
