On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 09:51:46 Bryen M Yunashko wrote:

On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 11:57 +0200, Guido Berhoerster wrote:

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That means also excluding people from the decision-making process (regardless of their stake in openSUSE development) who simply cannot attend due to time constraints. A problem that doesn't exist with asynchronous means of communication like email or the web.

Jos is not suggesting that conferences replace other forms of communication altogether. People *should* communicate however they best can on medium that is available to them. But he is bringing the point forward that you have a unique opportunity at conferences to talk directly face to face with people who make decisions and state your case more clearly verbally if the mood strikes you.

Yup, sorry for my miss-communication. I'm saying it is important and valuable to come to the conference - not that you don't matter or have no influence over our future direction if you don't manage to go there.

Also: I think it would be extremely valuable to open some discussions up for a wider audience using Google Hangouts. Folks with laptops capable of doing that can take care of creating hangouts quite easily and we should all keep that in mind once it is time for the meetings to start: set up a hangout!

Note that the most interesting meetings happen on Monday and Tuesday according to the schedule: http://bootstrapping-awesome.org/schedule

Hugs, Jos