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On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Egg Plant <egg.plant@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> The resourcefull developers/users can meet each other at Gentoo Miniconf and |
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> similar other gatherings in real world. That will make us more human. |
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I don't think this is really sufficient. As far as I can tell most |
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people attend such things based on how far they happen to live from |
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such an event, or whether they have an employer who is willing to pay |
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for such attendance. It has little to do with resources, unless |
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you're talking about so much discretionary money that you're literally |
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willing to spend $1-2k on travel. I certainly am not aware of any |
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conference that Gentoo has had a substantial presence at within a few |
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hundred miles of where I live. |
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I think anything that helps increase interaction among devs is a good |
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thing. Teams are welcome to organize their meetings in whatever |
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format works best for them. Gentoo developers are not required to use |
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IRC at all. Everybody has their favorite medium - some prefer email, |
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some forums, some IRC, some hangouts/etc, and so on. Some prefer |
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meeting on weekdays vs weekends, morning vs evening, etc. There are |
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going to be people inconvenienced or left out no matter what we do. |
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Sure, some will not be able to participate in Hangouts who could |
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participate in IRC, but the reverse is true as well. |
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Rich |
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