Re: Contributor Summit planning

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 09:25:41AM -0400, Randall S. Becker wrote:

> Unrelated directly to above, I noticed that I actually showed up on
> the list for 2018 based on git log anyway. Does this mean I'd be
> welcome? Personally, it's actually easier to get approval to travel to
> Brussels now than SFO even though the latter is closer. With that in
> mind, I can do either (or both - depending on scheduling).

You'd definitely be welcome.

The point of having it "only developers" is mostly to keep the numbers
at a point where we can all sit around and have round-table discussions.
I don't think there are so many people at the fringe of "well, I only
have a few commits, is that enough?" for us to need to make any kind of
serious cut-off there.

What I think we want to avoid is random folks in the "I use Git, and it
would be neat to see people talk about it" camp. It would be nice to
accommodate that (and it might even manage to suck somebody into working
on the project). But that opens up a much larger pool of people, and if
(say) a hundred of them want to come, that wrecks the intimate
round-table approach.

That's all just my opinion, of course. I'm open to suggestions.

-Peff