Re: PGCon hacker lounge

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:37:21AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > On May 28, 2015, at 2:47 AM, Gunnar Nick Bluth <gunnar(dot)bluth(at)pro-open(dot)de> wrote:
> > Am 27.05.2015 um 23:03 schrieb Josh Berkus:
> > > On 05/27/2015 09:01 AM, Dan Langille wrote:
> > >> Have you been to PGCon before? Do you remember the hacker
> > >> lounge? Do you remember going there to work on stuff? Do you
> > >> recall anything about it?
> > >
> > > This is a very strange email.
> > >
> >
> > I'm glad you said it first ;-)
>
> Sorry about that. I was trying to gauge the usefulness of the PGCon hacking lounge since it was first added to the schedule in 2012.
>
> It seems it goes unused, and I was trying to see if anyone found it useful in the past. At BSDCan, for example, you can find people there every night discussing and working. Or perhaps just socializing. It's a major gathering point.
>
> If there is interest, we'll retain for 2015, but it seems best to remove it from the schedule.

The community email lists are not to be used for your conference to
gauge interest in something --- you should be using your own conference
email list to do that. (In fact, I just unsubscribed from that
conference announce list because it was sending me too many
uninteresting emails, so I know the list exists.)

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