On Thursday 23 Sep 2010 03:26:17 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 16:20:56 Michael Loeffler wrote:
Moin,
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 13:52:21 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Hi all,
In december, FOSS.in will happen. In Januari there is LinuxCon Australia. I can most likely go to only one of these two events.
India: >1 billion inhabitants Australia > 21 million inhabitants
Maybe that gives a hint. This combined with the number of ambassadors we have on the ambassador list [1] for both countries is for me a clear sign to go to India. Additional what I heard about FOSS.in the last years was very positive - though I never visited it myself.
On the other hand, Australia gets visitors from New Sealand, which is very much an upcoming open source developer country. India, on the other hand, has a very hard time motivating students to work on FOSS in their free time and most of the 'ambassadors' seem inactive.
Moreover, FOSS.in won't be what it used to be this year due to organisational problems (will be mostly a hackfest, few talks) while linuxcon Au has quite a few high-profile speakers and thus counts more like a 'quality event'.
Just giving some balance ;-)
Anyone has more arguments?
OK I'm biased naturally enough... :) but I'll stick my oar in anyway LCA is in the top 5 most important Linux Confs in the world Conference is 5 days of hardcore developer presentations (This time round, no marketing string. :( ) Attendance will probably be around the 800 mark but they will represent devs from every major OpenSource project The quality of speakers is second to none You get the Top echelon of the FOSS world attending You will probably get the opportunity to shake hands with Linus and Maddog Open SUSE and Novell have been conspicuous by their absence at the last two LCAs Zonker has been a presenter in the past, I met him the first time at LCA in Sydney It is arguably the best place for recruiting developers Unfortunately we are too late to be able to do any presentations, competition is fierce in any case but there is the opportunity to network with the best in the business. The Professionals Networking session on it's own is worth the price of attending. My suggestion would be to bite the bullet and pay the Professionals registration. If you decide to go then I'll attend as well, just so we have a decent OpenSUSE presence and we can register for a booth at the openday if there is still room. Cheers GL
Best M
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list
So tell me, what do you think, where would you go, a visit to what conference would have the most impact and help openSUSE the most? This ain't only about me giving a talk or not - it is also about what local openSUSE ambassadors are there, what they organize etcetera. So do you have any plans for either of these conferences? Or is there another conference in December or Januari that you think I should be going to?
Cheers, Jos
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