Re: [Fwd: Re: [OSCOM] Is anyone going to the OSCMS Summit next month?]
Michael Wechner <[email protected]>
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Zak Greant wrote: > On Jan 20, 2006, at 23:15GMT+01:00, Michael Wechner wrote: > >> Zak Greant wrote: >> >>> We didn't have much time to do a proper job of promoting the event, >>> so we focused on getting the event out via word of mouth. Next year >>> will likely be much the same. Errr... I mean, entirely different >>> and exceedingly well run. ;) >> >> >> well, you might just want to announce it also a bit earlier through >> this list next time (if it still exists by then) >> >> Beside that it seems to me that the term OSCMS-Summit is quite >> misleading, >> because Drupal, ezPublish and TikiWiki aren't the only OS CMS on this >> planet, >> or are they? (well, they might someday ...) >> >> I am perfectly aware that the term Open Source CMS isn't reserved by >> anyone >> and shouldn't be, but still I think it's kind of sad that people just >> don't seem to want to collaborate and believe me I have lost my naivety >> quite some time ago. >> >> R.I.P. > > > Michael, > > You may have lost your naivety but your paranoia seems quite intact. I don't think so. Why do you think I have paranoia? > > The event is solely focused on helping developers of Free Software/ Open > Source CMS learn from each other. It has: > * no fee > * an open call for participants can you send the link (somehow I cannot find it on the oscms-summit site)? > * added projects as they state their interest > * sent out invitations to multiple projects which ones? > * has only had a site for a few weeks (before which it lived on another > conference's wiki) > * few sessions that would be of interest to people who just use the > CMSs in question (aka not much marketing value) > > Why would we want to exclude any Free Software/Open Source CMS from > this mix? I didn't say that (You might want to re-read my previous email). IIRC you have attended at least one OSCOM conference, right? I am very sure Sandro did, so why wasn't it announced on this list where one should expect many people interested in such a conference?! I am honestly a great admirer of the marketing capabilities of the ezPublish company, but maybe it's not as good as I assumed, because otherwise I cannot explain why the oscms-summit (including the CfP) wasn't announced on this list. So I guess it was just bad marketing, right?! I just realize that Sandro (if I am not wrong) added the Drupal conference as an OSCOM event: http://oscom.org/events/ I guess we should slightly correct that by adding a title "Related events" or something like that. At the same time we can add the oscms-summit conference. Well, I definitely wouldn't consider myself having paranoia. No, sir! Michi -- Michael Wechner Wyona Inc. - Open Source Content Management - Apache Lenya http://www.wyona.com http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya/ [email protected] [email protected]