jdd wrote:
Fair enough, that of course raises the question if we should continue with oSC. Considering that it is a lot of effort for volunteers to pull the conference together. If members and contributors cannot be bothered to show up to our own conference then maybe we should not undertake the endeavour past oSC16.
I think this as pretty rude.
I have to agree - maybe Robert was feeling a bit frustrated. I"m sure he didn't mean to say "If members and contributors cannot be bothered to show up to our own conference".
We could first ask us why people do not come (enough), and what could be improved to make them come.
Yep.
For example, having an OSC moving from location to location each year should mean that we try to be more near of the users. Good. But what do we do to make local users come? I see little in the OSC programm to make them comfortable.
Could we, for example, do an install party? I learned by accident than a powerfull server could locally serve installs, why don't use it?
That might be more of a topic for a user group meeting, not the openSUSE conference (for members and contributors).
please do come back to the subject: How can we make the *refused* people not abandoned to themselves too fast? We need them, may be not as members, but as basic contributors.
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