[LGM] 10-13 April 2013. Next Libre Graphics Meeting. Madrid.

[snelting at collectifs.net]

> hi greg
>
>> On 06/25/2012 09:10 PM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > 2012/6/25 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com
>> > <mailto:gpittman at iglou.com>>
>> >
>> >     On 06/15/2012 02:18 PM, Monica Cachafeiro wrote:
>> >
>> >         Hello all,
>> >
>> >         As anyone see problems an the dates we are going to have
>> > next LGM in Madrid from 10-13 April 2013.
>> >
>> >         Hope can send you more info soon!
>> >
>> >
>> >     one of the things we need to work on is deciding on a method so
>> >     that we can formally come to decisions.
>> >     Is there some specific number of people who have to vote in
>> > favor of something?
>> >     Do some people have a vote and others don't? Who are the voting
>> >     "members"?
>> >
>> >     This ends up looking pretty pathetic to have decisions drag on
>> >     like this.
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Greg and all,
>> >
>> > At LGM we were unanymous to vote in favor of LGM 2013 in Madrid and
>> > all we needed to figure out was when it would take place.
>> >
>> > In order to solve this we got a first email contact on the mailing
>> > list and I forwarded the call to most teams asking for an answer on
>> > the dates. We have received a clear go-ahead with very few
>> > exceptions from very few people who have now time to figure this
>> > out!
>> >
>> > All in all, I think that it's the first time in short LGM history
>> > we have such a rapid call for the next venue.
>> >
>> > I hope I didn't miss something!
>> >
>> >
>> As far as I know, Mónica is still waiting to here that the specific
>> dates of 10-13 April are okay for her to proceed with her plans.
>> We've had a lot of individual yeses, but no collective yes.
>
> there was a short discussion on some issues, nobody had strong opinions
> against those dates (like a clash with another free software venue) and
> the decision has been taken by prado to go for those dates.
>
> there was an email with the decision by them, but i don't know to which
> lists it went :-)
> i only know that i got several copies of it.
>
> and femke has already published the news on the lgm website!
>
> while sometimes it would indeed be nice to have a more formal
> decision process, i think that in this case it all went very well. also
> thanks to louis initiative to ask on the devs mailing lists!

Thanks Ale!

After a week of positive replies, I e-mailed with Monica and we assumed
these dates were ok for everyone. Her last message was to confirm (it was
sent to this list and I fwded it to CREATE).

Hope that was not a faux pas :-)

F