Hi Steffen and all, > I was peeking into the one or other scientific collaboration of mine to > invite them to our next Debian Med sprint. But I could not really tell > much about it, yet. Besides deciding where to convene next (which to my > recollection is decided by someone saying loudly that he/she wants to > host us ... hello?)
FYI as a side note: I have reached out to informatics people here at Sanger during the regular campus-wide Informatics Group Meetings by giving a brief talk about Debian Med and the history of the sprints and also trying to get an idea of who would support such an event in-house. In the discussion afterwards indeed some upstream developers agreed that this would be a good idea and would benefit the institute. However, there was little initiative from any particular group to approach me afterwards and find out how to make it work together; it was merely suggested to contact the Genome Campus conference centre (which might be on the more expensive side compared to our previous venues). I can try to poke some people to bring the topic back to the table. > we should possibly also lean back a bit and decide if we want to > change the one or other thing. This could start with the name. In my > perception what we are having is not so much a problem-focused > Sprint. Yes, I agree in principle. > So, what do you all think? Would it help to officially come up with > some extended Sprint format? What would you change? Nothing? More > talks? More time? If the number of participants supports this, maybe some pre-allocated time for custom break-out sessions, to allow for some in-depth mentoring or bug squashing without missing group discussions or talks? What do you think? > Should there possibly a second Debian Med meeting on another > continent than Europe? Sure, if there is enough interest -- especially for newcomers from overseas :) For now there have only been a handful of people traveling that far. Not sure if more would come if there was an event closer to them. However, I myself would probably only be able to make it if the travel costs are moderate as my employer won't cover that. > With the same focus? Or more medical? Personally I probably wouldn't be too interested in medical or research applications as I tend to focus more on the technical/infrastructure aspect. But that's just me, YMMV. I can imagine that it might make sense to attract the non-core-Debian crowd as well. Best regards Sascha -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.