<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Sad to lose our geek friendly terminology, but no problem to call it meetings in our public content if it helps you to join.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Tim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Denis Rouzaud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:denis.rouzaud@gmail.com" target="_blank">denis.rouzaud@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Lene, dear PSC again,<div><br></div><div>Sorry Lene, I had in mind you were in the list of the PSC, but it's not the case.</div><div>So I'm including you to the discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Denis<div><div class="h5"><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: Denis Rouzaud <<a href="mailto:denis.rouzaud@gmail.com" target="_blank">denis.rouzaud@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: mar. 28 févr. 2017 à 09:07<br>Subject: QGIS developer meeting naming<br>To: <a href="mailto:qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a> <<a href="mailto:qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org</a>>, Otto Dassau <<a href="mailto:dassau@gbd-consult.de" target="_blank">dassau@gbd-consult.de</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg">Dear PSC, dear Otto<div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"><br class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg">I just wanted to ask a bit of attention on the naming of the QGIS developer meetings aka Hackfest.</div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg">While Hackfest sounds nice to geeks and even if it is not the same word as hacking, many people do confuse them. And not all of them read the small disclaimer saying they are not the same thing.</div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"><br class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg">In my experience as working for a public administration, the final authorization to go there is given by politics. I had some "troubles" last time due to that denomination.</div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"><br class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg">I think it might also be easier for any organization to sponsor (I mean financial sponsor) a developer meeting rather than a Hackfest.</div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"><br class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg">While it is really ok and cool to use Hackfest while speaking and chatting, I would recommend (or even ask) not to use it in any wiki page or official communication.</div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"><br class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg">Does it make sense to you?</div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"><br class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg">In any case, thank for the work and of course for the organization of these superbs hackfests ;)</div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"><br class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg">Cheers,</div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg">Denis</div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"><br class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg">PS: I took the liberty to change wiki page for Essen to use "Developer meeting" rather then "Hackfest" and I hope you're fine with it.</div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"><br class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"><br class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"><br class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"><br class="m_-7616393794210351243gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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