On 14 November 2012 09:00, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/11/2012 jan iversen wrote:
>
>> has anyone thought about making events that did not cost
>> 600,- EUR + travel/hotel etc. ??
>>
>
> Yes, free (or with a nominal fee, like 10 EUR) events used to be the norm.
>
>
>  maybe it is time, we made a
>> OpenOffice (I do not write AOO on purpose) gathering, where developers can
>> talk to developers without the overhead of a big conference  company !!
>> I used to do participate in such events, which were highly successful, so
>> I
>> can only recommend it (and would be pleased to help establish such a
>> non-commercial event).
>>
>
> Good idea. Maybe something related to 4.0 next Spring... It will require
> that someone organizes it and that it has appeal for most developers to
> attend, but for the rest there's nothing against organizing one: on the
> contrary, it would be very good to setup some "informal" gathering again.
>

4.0 release would be a good time. Lets postpone the discussion until after
FOSDEM, I will just throw in a marker, that there are plenty of hotels down
here, that offer next to free conference facilities when a group of people
book rooms, and in spring the rooms/flights are pretty cheap, since it is
off season.

Jan.

>
> Regards,
>   Andrea.
>

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