On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 19:48 -0500, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
At the openSUSE Conference, we talked about what it was we needed to to jumpstart interest in openSUSE-GNOME and how to get people interested in coming to the meetings. I fear that the agenda you've laid out doesn't address that very well.
I appreciate what you're saying, and I completely agree that we need to engage the community better. The issue is you had your chance to object and you missed it ;-P As I mentioned previously, this agenda is just an initial one that we can build on. As it has been so long since we actually had a meeting I think we need to all know what is going on. We can then discuss how to better engage the community.
Looking back to how I "accidentally" ended up in GNOME meetings, I saw a meeting announcement by JPR, and I thought hmm.. Here's a chance to find out new stuff about GNOME. I wanted to educate myself, and thought it would be more of a presentation-style meeting. I was wrong but luckily, I stuck around. :-) (I see a comment coming from Andy now about the horrors now that I'm around.)
What you mean like how you linger like a bad smell? One of my aims is to try and get the GNOME community back to the same level it was back in the 11.0/11.1 cycles. We seem to have lost our way somewhat and we need to just get on and do it.
I would suggest that the meetings be thematic. Back in the beginning, we used to invite people from different projects to come and talk about stuff and answer questions from general users. Those meetings had some relatively decent attendance.
Before we start talking nuts and bolts in these meetings, which intimidate those who aren't knowledgeable in this area, we need to talk about general interests and build from there. And who knows, you might be able to snag a new techie out of someone who initially didn't think he or she had what it takes to get under the hood.
Please feel free to add your comments etc to the agenda, they are perfectly valid and are worthy of discussion. There are many things we need to do, but we need to start small and then grow. Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin. PGP: 0x3A36312F openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org