Philip Paeps wrote:
On 2010-01-21 00:44:08 (+0100), Boriss Mejias <boris.mejias@uclouvain.be> wrote:
Christophe Vandeplas wrote:
Dear Florian,
The FOSDEM conference is a place where people are brought together to create and talk about magnificent software.
It is however not a place for politics. what about philosophy? when we gather to talk about magnificent software, is it a place to talk about the philosophy behind the magnificent software too? just curious
FOSDEM aims to be a technical conference. We want to enable developers of open source software to colaborate. For people wanting to discuss philosophy, we organize a beer event on Friday evening before the conference.
Hi Philip, I like FOSDEM being a technical conference, and hopefully it will remain having that goal. I'm not trying to change that.
The purpose of this mailing list is to provide information and guidance to people interested in attending FOSDEM.
We have learned (at length) that discussions about philosophy and other fuzzy topics on mailing lists get very very long and add zero value to people who are interested in attending FOSDEM.
Yes I know. My question was about guidance for attendance, it was not a philosophical one. Since the previous quote about politics sounded like a rule for attendance, I wanted to know what about philosophy, and you answered me that the place for that was the beer event. So I think the question perfectly fits this mailing list... I also want to keep it low traffic. cheers Boriss
Save it for the beer event.
- Philip