Andrés has designed some nice banners for marketing the conference.
You can see all of them here.
I’ve been quite interested lately in the topic, and decided to post here a collection of related documents and links:
We have been very busy in the last days organizing the II Guadec-es, that will take place already in six weeks time.
In the Program Committee, we are now on the process of reviewing all the contributions, with the main goal of enriching the quality of the
final version of the papers, that will be published in the conference proceedings. We are using OpenConf for managing all the process, and in my opinion that was a very good decission because coordination is less difficult this way.
In the Organizing Committee, the search for sponsors is finally coming to the end. We have also prepared accommodation and travel information for the web page, and are working in the infrastructure for having power and wireless connection for the people attending to the talks, we are contacting people for invited talks, and a lot of other thousands of small bureaucratic tasks.
By the end of the next week we should notify the acceptance of the papers to all the people that have submitted a contribution, and publish the preliminary program for the three days, which I can already advance that it is going to be very interesting! After that, the registration will be open for everyone wanting to enjoy the conference.
Who had said that organizing a conference was easy? 😉
Nobody should be surprised. Proprietary software works this way: the power is always in the developer, who decides who, when and how can a given program be used. While the developer is friendly, the software is available under some conditions, but at some point, this can stop.
And the main milestones of the story were as follows:
Would have been better to slow down a bit the kernel development, which was according to Linus increased with BitKeeper, using the available free software tools? Or was it better to promote indirectly a proprietary program and to speed up the development until the moment we have arrived now to: the point where the proprietary company feels they don’t need the kernel any more and want to “fly alone” without offering the “open source friendly” version?
I’m closer to Stallman than to Linus, as most of the time. That’s why I talk about Free(dom) Software instead of Open Source. That’s why I *also* like to take into account the social dimension of software. That’s why I think it would have been better not to use BitKeeper for Linux development.