On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 11:21 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Stormy Peters > <stormy.pet...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > In addition to GNOME folks willing to host (yeah, Sri!) there is also a > > large, active open source community in Portland so we might draw new people > > or people that haven't been able to travel to Europe or Boston. > > > > > This is true. Portland has a very large presence of many open source based > start ups as well as established companies like Intel and IBM who have open > source teams. Intel for instance has all their Xorg hackers here. We have > some Red Hatters, people who work on filesystems, and many kernel folks. > > So you'll have a large community to interact with. I'm well known in the > Portland open source community as I manage our "beerings". In fact it was > from the beerings that Linux Plumbers Conference was born. > > I also have access to an events coordinator as well as my old plumbers team > to ask for advice. I dont know mucha bout the logistics - how many people > generally come?
Boston Summit is between hackfest and unconference. It is about 35-50 people. One of the benefits of Boston is that MIT traditionally had lent the venue for free during Columbus Day. You can get an idea from the old wiki pages: https://live.gnome.org/Boston2012 https://live.gnome.org/Boston2012/Participants https://live.gnome.org/Montreal2011/Participants https://live.gnome.org/Boston2010/Participants -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
_______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
