MJ Ray mjr@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
Like hell I did. I can't speak for the other more than 1999 developers, but I went to meet some other developers who work on the same projects. All this cult of the celebrity nonsense sucks and this year, we can marvel at no talks about debian in the packaging tools thread, no talks about GNUstep in the desktop thread, no mainstream speakers from FSFE and so on. I'm giving it a miss and hoping FOSDEM gets back to focusing on developers next year. pr@fosdem bounced earlier today.
Can we assume that you're having a bad day? I don't think having no talks about GNUstep is a particularly bad idea, all in all, just how many GNUsteppers are out there, and just how many GNUstep developers compared to, say, the likes of Gnome... Until GNUstep gets a larger following, it's not entirely likely to get much coverage, really, is it... So, the way to fix that is to make a decent window mangler for it, fix the holes where apps don't exist, and then make it as 'pretty' and annoying as MacOS X... then market it to people that want to use Mac OS X but can't afford the extorsionate prices for the software or hardware, and only really want a decent word processor and web browser.
On the rest of it, hrm, there seem to be a fair chunk of #debian-uk people going to FOSDEM, so it can't be as bad as you're making out... either that, or they're all going for a weekend of socialising, which is possible, and probably more profitable in the search for knowledge than any pre-prepared speech.
There's bound to be something that I've missed, but hey, I'm tired.
If we had a developers meeting in East Anglia, could we get the abbreviation to be EADAM somehow? That's funny two ways.
That's an easy one to get to...
East Anglian Developers Annual Meeting... or East Anglian Developers Abandon Meeting (in favour of pub)... or East Anglian Developers Access Meeting, or, well, there's probably thousands more, but I'm tired and cba.
Cheers,