[Marketing] Digia and the comunity for Qt

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 15 de outubro de 2012 14.07.37, Sivan Greenberg wrote:
> Hi Katherine,
> 
>  Can I then ask what about the important portion of independent hard
> working strong devoted individual community people in Qt events? For
> example, I had submitted 4 talk proposals (that I received feedback
> were very relevant) to the Berlin Qt Dev days but got rejected due to
> the fact I require travel sponsorship to attend.
> 
>  Needless to say this was disheartening and personally for me, and
> caused me to fear that Nokia withdrawal from the project flags
> somewhat drastic change in support of individual community
> contributors.

Hi Sivan

It was quite the contrary. The conference this year was organised by KDAB and 
ICS, with a program team consisting of people from those two companies, Digia, 
RIM and also myself. The only thing we were missing was someone with no 
company affiliation. Still, I think the program team did a great job.

I really appreciate your contributions to the project and I wish you could 
come to all events. But as it is, the program team felt that there were other 
presentations we would prefer over yours, either because they were more 
specific about a certain subject or because the presenter would be a smaller 
burden on the conference budget.

I'm not privy to the financial details of either conference, so I don't know 
how well they're doing in that area. From other conferences in the past, I do 
know that the travel budget is severely constrained, though.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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