Re: [DotGNU]Re: Meet-a-thon

[Barry Fitzgerald]

Gopal V wrote:
> 
> > Newsforge and Linuxtoday are good enough... GNU would also work but I'
> ...
> > We can get them covered on Newsforge easily enough.  Grant is a great
> > guy.
> 
> Ok these three would do enough ... we actually need developers *and*
> users to come forward... The original meeting was developer-specific
> ,at least in purpose... unlike this proposal (If I read it right)...
>

We'll put the release out a few days before the meet.

 
> > We really need to focus on getting everything back together and cohesive.
> 
> We've gotta learn "How to Hype" .... from a project we're all familiar
> with (I'll give you 3 guesses)....
> 

Yes, but you have to be careful of the hype factor.  The more hype that
is generated the more work it is just to manage the input from that
hype. :)  We learned this fairly early on in the project.


> 
> > spawn off different channels for the meet-a-thon:
> 
> Would fork interest .... I believe a chaotic meeting would do good
> as far as I'm concerned . And the timezones of the developers will
> control the topic to some extent (from last experience)... No sense
> in splitting interest .... IMO DotGNU is a single entity as far as
> this meeting is concerned .
> 

OK - that's fine by me...

        -Barry