I'm currently attending university in Frankfurt (computer science at Goethe Univerity), so if Frankfurt would be decided on for the location, I could try to get some kind of support from the university and certainly help to organize on site.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Dane Henson <d...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > Haha, we're so spread out in the US. It looks like my wife and I are > going to have to plan a trip to Europe without the kids. I'v always wanted > to see Germany. :P > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Eduard Gotwig <got...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > If we would do it in Frankfurt, I am sure we can get sponsors on board for > this. > > > 2012/10/2 David Nielsen <gnomeu...@gmail.com> > >> Okay so far you are truly multinational. It looks like Europe is the best >> place for it, maybe Frankfurt is a good choice. >> >> Experience tells me that getting a person from the US to Europe is >> roughly 1800$, internal travel in the EU is a bit cheaper and can probably >> be had at a medium cost of 1000$ per person. Which means currently just >> around 10.000$ in travel costs alone, board is typically roughly the same >> so I'll need to find at least 20.000$ in sponsorships to be on the safe >> side. This is given that I can find a venue sponsor as renting a place is >> expensive. >> >> Luckily Elementary uses a lot of technology backed by businesses, e.g. >> Yorba, Codethink, Fluendo, Canonical and such, plus I might be able to >> squeeze a bit out of GNOME and maybe MonkeySquare can pitch in. It should >> at least get us a bit of the way there but it is still a high number to >> hit, we may have success using something like ChipIn to gather some funds >> as well. >> >> Regardless that is a lot of money which will take some time to gather. >> One option that has worked well in the past has been putting events right >> after FOSDEM since a lot of developers go there anyways and occasionally >> employers can be convinced to pay for the ticket. I gather you are all >> students or otherwise unable to take advantage of such an option. >> >> So a bit of a task ahead it seems. On the plus side this is going to a >> challenge which is always a good thing. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> Den 02/10/2012 kl. 11.01 skrev Dane Henson <d...@elementaryos.org>: >> >> If nobody is opposed to it, I created a collaborative google map and set >> it so that anyone can edit it: >> >> http://goo.gl/maps/1flld >> >> I understand that this kind of thing can be controversial, but if you are >> concerned about giving away your location, just drop a placemark on the >> nearest major city. At least that way we can get a rough idea of the >> distribution of elementary devs. >> >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefri...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> We have to make a shared Google DOC and write here our location... >> >> Sent from iPhone 5 >> >> Il giorno 02/ott/2012, alle ore 08:06, Daniel Foré < >> dan...@elementaryos.org> ha scritto: >> >> Hey David, >> >> That sounds like an awesome idea! I'm CC'ing the dev mailing list so we >> can see how many devs we have available and able to attend such a hackfest. >> >> As far as where we're located, we're quite distributed across the USA and >> Europe haha. I wonder if there's a way to get a map of where everyone is? >> >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, David Nielsen <gnomeu...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi Dan, >>> >>> I forgot your email and my OS X machine is reinstalling to prepare for >>> my first Luna install so I am using Launchpads contact form really >>> quickly. >>> Regardless, I would like to contribute to Elementary but I am not much >>> of a programmer, I do however arrange a mean Hackfest. I have previously >>> pulled off two annual GNOME and Mono hackfests and since I have taken a >>> position on the MonkeySquare board I am also doing a Hackfest on day 3 >>> of our annual MonkeySpace conference. >>> >>> I have seen how effective such events have been for other groups and I >>> think the perfect way to celebrate Luna's release will be holding a 5-7 >>> day event to plan and hack on Luna+1 in person. I have some ideas for >>> collecting funds for this venture and some good contacts so you can >>> leave that to me, however if this has any interest I would like to know >>> how many core developers you have and where you are geographically so to >>> plan and budget this thing. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> David Nielsen >>> -- >>> This message was sent from Launchpad by >>> David Nielsen (https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen) >>> using the "Contact this user" link on your profile page >>> (https://launchpad.net/~danrabbit). >>> For more information see >>> https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Best Regards, >> >> Daniel Foré >> >> elementaryos.org >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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