On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:55:10PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:18:50PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > The beer thing was in jest; I would be giving a presentation if I was > > over there, on freedesktop.org and X. > > Sure, but ignoring the sob stories, the only thing you told us you'd be > doing over there other than drinking and spending money was: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:13:47PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > I would attend > > largely as a representative of freedesktop.org (none of our other > > valiant leaders can go), and hopefully beat KDE into standards > > submission. > > I was inclined to take the latter half of that as mostly a joke too -- > and the drinking beer part certainly seems a lot more likely to pan > out than that anyway. It was all pretty non-specific, and really "a > presentation on freedesktop.org and X" isn't a lot better. Don't you at > least have an abstract, or even some pre-prepared slides, to offer LA > as evidence of what LA's money is going to buy the community? I do not have an abstract or slides - I was asked to bring the KDE community up to speed on various projects within fd.o, as well as what we're doing with X. So, it would include a high-level overview of fd.o projects such as UIM and others, and an overview of all our X work in progress, and where we hope to go with X and standards in the future. The platform and Utopia stack would also get a look-in. I've been relatively snowed under between my X work and exams lately, so I've not had time to prepare an abstract. My last exam is next week, so hopefully I can get things a little better together. I've been talking with the aKademy crew, and they've said that they'd welcome any talk I did on fd.o and X, and there's no real formal paper process as such (they usually have more room for talks than offers; another difference to LCA which some may not realise). > I'm not meaning to imply that your trip's not worth funding, just that > the grant proposal probably isn't focussed properly, possibly to the > extent of causing LA legal troubles if it's a grant's made on the basis > of nothing more than the proposal. IANAL, YMMV, IMHO, etc. Well, if I got the grant, I'd obviously start writing my talk, for one. Not much point in writing a talk you're never going to give. I can assure you it would be quite valuable, and I'm willing to go back and focus this more if it's requested. Apologies for the flippancy if it's caused problems. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> "The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_, available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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