On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:31, b...@pagekite.net said: > Thanks for the write-up, Werner! :-)
Actually you have been much faster with your report https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2015-04-20_OpenPGP_Email_Summit.html >> disappointed that many of the participants favored this closed >> invitation-only style summit and want the next meeting to happen the > On the one hand, I suspect it would be very hard to maintain the > excellent signal/noise ratio we had, in a completely open summit. On Maybe. We are used to work on mailing list and I would bet that in most cases it is easier to ask too noisy participants to behave well during a physical meeting than on mailing lists. The IETF has quite some experience with that and requires physical meetings for important tasks. > Was the idea of having a mixed summit discussed? I think there was > general consensus that we could probably skip the introductions next Not that I know. I left the session at some point, though. > time, so perhaps one of the two days could be open and the other day > closed for people who want to work together on specific issues? As long has all participants may introduce a new attendee I would be fine with such a scheme. No need for strict registration rules. > Or the group could fork, with the first day shared for talks and getting > to know each other, and the second day forked into non-dev-friendly > activities (crypto-parties, keysigning, introductory talks) scheduled The problem is that at least for talks, those speakers would likely also want to participate in the smaller working groups. > out-reach, it's might not be a great idea. But we do have a while until > the next meetup is planned, so there is time to reconsider and think > about whether we can find a way to preserve the focus of the group > while still welcoming new people to the community. Organizing a conference takes some time and thus we would need to start with it soon. In case people would agree to come again to Germany I have an idea whom to ask to run such a conference. > Although my politics and yours align, I think it might be a strategic > mistake to exclude the closed-source folks from these discussions... The GNU towers expect me to talk like this - but I am not always wearing my GNUhat ;-) Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
