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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So someone of the 7 previous posters (including me or you) should have changed the subject to keep it on-topic. Femke did that flawlessly, but we aren’t so sophisticated yet, apparently<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(After all, we are even top-posting)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Greg doesn’t qualify for the “</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>with the primary intent of provoking readers into an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion" title=Emotion><span style='color:#1F497D'>emotional</span></a> response” clause from the Wikipedia definition (if Greg wanted to provoke an emotional response, he’d probably use brain-electrodes </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> )</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>/Andreas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> libre-graphics-meeting-bounces+andreas.vox=gmail.com@lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:libre-graphics-meeting-bounces+andreas.vox=gmail.com@lists.freedesktop.org] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>S.Kemter<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 24. April 2013 15:59<br><b>An:</b> libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org<br><b>Betreff:</b> Re: [LGM] Direct me to wrap up of previous LGMs, please<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi,<br><br>Between raising points and using each thread that is opened for reminding us that we are wrong and we should take for 2014 Montreal and all the others should be considered for 2015 is for me a difference. I would say the subject of this thread is:<o:p></o:p></p><h1><span class=hp><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Direct me to wrap up of previous LGMs</span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>So we are off-topic since his mail, right? Reminding what a troll is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling</a><br><br>br gnokii<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2013/4/24 Andreas Vox <<a href="mailto:avox@arcor.de" target="_blank">avox@arcor.de</a>><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Please don’t call Greg a troll; he isn’t. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>While it’s definitely too late to change the procedure for 2014, he raises some valid points about the selection process.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So just that we have something to discuss, here’s another proposal for the 2015+ selections:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>there’s an official call for next LGM proposals between the previous LGM and the January of the current LGM (ie. 2014)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“the committee” collects the proposals and asks for clarifications</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>on the evening of the first day of the current LGM we have a session where every proposal gets a 10 minute talk</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>on the last day of the current LGM there is a vote on the proposals which were presented on the first day</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Advantages: </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>open selection process, everyone can get involved</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>detailed proposals a ready before current LGM</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Disadvantages: </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-indent:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>decision is again made only one year ahead (instead of 15 months)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>/Andreas</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> libre-graphics-meeting-bounces+andreas.vox=<a href="mailto:gmail.com@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">gmail.com@lists.freedesktop.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:libre-graphics-meeting-bounces%2Bandreas.vox" target="_blank">libre-graphics-meeting-bounces+andreas.vox</a>=<a href="mailto:gmail.com@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">gmail.com@lists.freedesktop.org</a>] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>S.Kemter<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 24. April 2013 14:20<br><b>An:</b> <a href="mailto:libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br><b>Betreff:</b> Re: [LGM] Direct me to wrap up of previous LGMs, please</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi,<br><br>I think it's enough at this point now. Getting sick of your poison you are distributing the whole time here. There are 4 proposals, because Andreas forgot to mention Buenos Aires. That means 3 are on your side of the Atlantic. We all agreed in a meeting you was not seen in, that for the future we like to see proposals in a higher quality in advance.<br>It was also agreed how to handle it this time, there is time until 15th of May for all for putting together a proposal answering to all questions. After that an IRC meeting will happen, where all open questions will be answered and an decision will be made. There was not fixed who has the right to vote in this meeting, it's an open process. There is also the option that no <span lang=EN>majority</span> can go for one place and also there was an agreement to give more people the <span lang=EN>possibility to have there voice </span>heard on the mailing list. It looks to me like an fair and acceptable way how to handle it, a huge step forward. D<span lang=EN>efinitely</span> better as the marshland we had here before.<br><br>People who knows me well, know I have an memory like an elephant. So lets go back what did happen in Vienna. Two proposals for 2013 Madrid and Montreal. The majority was for Madrid and it was more an "could be" meaning for Montreal 2014. It was more lets Louis not travel sad home....<br><br>From 8 LGM 3 was in Montreal, I think a lot agree that's more then enough. A lot will agree go there will destroy all opportunities we have now putting a clear process how and when propose it and make LGM to an really FLOSS event for all people interested in. Not for a few that like the marshland like it was because they have there sheep in the try....<br><br>We will see what happen after 15th of May and where we go and how many of the proposals stay as option for 2015 in case they are not taken for 2014. But I fear after that <span lang=EN>unfortunate </span>attempts here to enforce Montreal for 2014, nobody likes to go there also for 2015 even it has PyCon as an argument in that year to.<br><br>What I wondering about is the arrogance that some have saying such things like differ from other floss events and is something totally special. It is not, some have to realize that. On all events the process is open and who does the work decides.<br><br>This year on the table there was not only a lot of people, there was also a lot of people who are involved in other floss events some of them are bigger then the LGM such events like SCaLE, Flisol, FOSSASIA, LinuxTag, Linux-Tage, DevConf.cz<br><br>speaking about participation where was your voice in the closing session or on the table? So please stay away now from your poisonous mails trying to enforce Montreal for 2014, it's not helpful we will find out soon where we go for 2014 and then open it for 2015.<br><br>br gnokii<br><br>P.S. dont feed the troll<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>2013/4/24 Gregory Pittman <<a href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com" target="_blank">gpittman@iglou.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On 04/23/2013 05:58 PM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Am Dienstag, 23. April 2013, 21:33:10 schrub Gregory Pittman:<br><br>[...]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Well, for one thing, decisions are not based on the results of an<br>applause meter (as Femke mentioned at the time).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Since LGM is meant for the people actually going there an applause meter might<br>very well be the best way to decide where to go. No idea if personal<br>preferences of a few committee members are any better, we will see in about a<br>year by looking at the number of participants.<br><br>But that's just my personal opinion.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>If you think about it though, there are some serious problems with this method. At the foremost, it turns to decision into cheering for a city/country, as opposed to seeing a proposed site in the context of the quality of the LGM that might take place there, and perhaps some sense of the economic and other challenges that attendees might face. The presumption that those who did not attend LGM this year but have in the past are no longer interested in LGM and unlikely to attend in future doesn't really have anything to back it up. It seems possible that there are some who cannot afford to attend every year, and proximity to where they live is a major issue. If we imagine, for example, that next year LGM might be in Leipzig, that would be 3 years in a row in Europe, rather skewing the assessment of attendance.<br><br>I don't think it's unusual for groups who have meetings to rely on some committee for site selection. In the case of LGM, anyone who wishes to be part of this process has been welcomed to volunteer to help. In the past, few have come forward to volunteer their time and effort for the purpose.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br><br> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br><br>Greg<br>_______________________________________________<br>Libre-graphics-meeting mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">Libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>make me rich, buy my Inkscape book <a href="http://is.gd/yq5OD0" target="_blank">http://is.gd/yq5OD0</a> ;)<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Libre-graphics-meeting mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">Libre-graphics-meeting@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>make me rich, buy my Inkscape book <a href="http://is.gd/yq5OD0" target="_blank">http://is.gd/yq5OD0</a> ;)<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>