Gentoo Archives: gentoo-trustees

From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] Spain, Gentoo Expo etc
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:11:04
Message-Id: 20040811131105.GB9432@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-trustees] Spain, Gentoo Expo etc by Corey Shields
1 On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:47:18PM -0500, Corey Shields wrote:
2 > Can you go into more detail as to what the event will be? Is it a meeting
3 > for trustees, a developer conference, or just a general Gentoo get together?
4 > All three of those ideas have been floating around lately.
5
6 It would be a developer conference but BaSS hopes that at least all (or
7 most) trustees could be there. He has received input from a few (or most)
8 and I know some trustees cannot leave the states.
9
10 So much for the facts that I know of :)
11
12 > If we have to pull in other sponsors, I would want to see that Spain is the
13 > cheapest possible solution after the Andalusia contribution. Basically, I'd
14 > hate to ask the sponsors to send a bunch of people to Spain if it would be
15 > cheaper to meet somewhere in the states, allowing us to facilitate more
16 > people. This may void the purpose of the meeting, hence my first question.
17
18 Aside from this question: BaSS has put this information on the conference at
19 least twice on -core; perhaps you missed it? I cannot remember that his
20 e-mails got much response (if any) apart from a few that said they will try
21 their best to attend the meeting.
22
23 This should be discussed with BaSS imho.
24
25 Wkr,
26 Sven Vermeulen
27
28 --
29 Bent Hindrup Andersen, Danish MEP, about the Software Patent Directive:
30 The approach of the Commission and Council in this directive is shocking.
31 They are making full use of all the possibilities of evading democracy that
32 the current Community Law provides. <http://lwn.net/Articles/84009/>