Am 21.07.23 um 14:31 schrieb Alexandre Julliard:
Folks,
As you may have noticed, we haven't been making any plans for WineConf this year. Jeremy has been busy preparing his retirement, and I haven't been pushing it either, mostly because I'm not convinced that we want to continue the traditional WineConf model.
Even though we skipped a few years because of the pandemic, attendance at last year's WineConf wasn't great. We also suggested meeting at FOSDEM in February, like we did in previous years, but essentially no one showed up.
So I'm wondering whether there is still enough interest for a traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream uses of Wine in general.
I'd like to hear your thoughts. Should we do a Proton conference, or join some kind of gaming-related event? Do people even want to travel to conferences anymore? What kind of event would you be interested in, particularly those of you who don't show up to the traditional WineConf?
Hi,
I think it still might be that last year was still a bit special. The pandemic wasn't "over" that long and I noticed quite high flight prices to Minnesota for the WineConf dates. Maybe there was some other, bigger event? The original plan for this year was Japan, which would be really interesting, but I guess flight prices would be high as well from USA and Europe at least.
Am 28.07.23 um 09:29 schrieb Austin English:
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 12:43 PM Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@winehq.org mailto:mstefani@winehq.org> wrote: The 2022 WineConf I had to skip due delays with the visa. I've noticed that our EU conferences tend to have more people, and I suspect that not having to deal with US visas is a factor in that.
I also think so. ESTA is not for everyone.
Maybe do a dev presentation at a major conference like GDC in California (popular but expensive), OLF in Ohio, or Linux Plumbers in Virginia, followed by a miniconference or meet-up for WIne/Proton specific dev topics or Q&A with non-devs.
On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 5:53 AM André Zwing nerv@dawncrow.de wrote:
Am 21.07.23 um 14:31 schrieb Alexandre Julliard:
Folks,
As you may have noticed, we haven't been making any plans for WineConf this year. Jeremy has been busy preparing his retirement, and I haven't been pushing it either, mostly because I'm not convinced that we want to continue the traditional WineConf model.
Even though we skipped a few years because of the pandemic, attendance at last year's WineConf wasn't great. We also suggested meeting at FOSDEM in February, like we did in previous years, but essentially no one showed up.
So I'm wondering whether there is still enough interest for a traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream uses of Wine in general.
I'd like to hear your thoughts. Should we do a Proton conference, or join some kind of gaming-related event? Do people even want to travel to conferences anymore? What kind of event would you be interested in, particularly those of you who don't show up to the traditional WineConf?
Hi,
I think it still might be that last year was still a bit special. The pandemic wasn't "over" that long and I noticed quite high flight prices to Minnesota for the WineConf dates. Maybe there was some other, bigger event? The original plan for this year was Japan, which would be really interesting, but I guess flight prices would be high as well from USA and Europe at least.
Am 28.07.23 um 09:29 schrieb Austin English:
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 12:43 PM Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@winehq.org
mailto:mstefani@winehq.org> wrote:
The 2022 WineConf I had to skip due delays with the visa.I've noticed that our EU conferences tend to have more people, and I
suspect that not having to deal with US visas is a factor in that.
I also think so. ESTA is not for everyone.
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Jeff Hanson