[maemo-community] Organizing Maemo Summit 2009

[From: Quim Gil]

ext Sebastian 'CrashandDie' Lauwers wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, what's the rationale behind not choosing c-base again ?
> 
> Been there. Done that.

One reasons could be that by not having an event nearby we would loose
potential speakers and participants.

OSiM is not the biggest and best developer conference I have seen, but
there were some developers attending that were extending the visit to
Berlin to go to the Maemo Summit. And not only developers, it was good
to have Jay Sullivan from Mozilla and he could come because anyway he
was attending OSiM.

OSiM tries to do better with developers every year and my default
assumption is that more developers "in the business" will attend (people
from Collabora, Igalia and other small companies that also have a link
to Maemo.

I'm not saying that we should go for Amsterdam and I'm still seeing
whether does dates make sense in order to show something as cool as the
Maemo community deserve.  :)  But at least they would be reasons not to
repeat in c-base, even if the event was great (but not free, although
affordable).

By the way, I can prepare a rough summary of the Maemo Summit expenses,
for reference. I won't go into details of how much we spent on each
contributor sponsored but it is useful to share the basic numbers.

-- 
Quim Gil