This year i can't attend any hackfest either...after this year i will be more free...
2012/10/3 xapantu <xapa...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > I am living in Paris now. Just for your information, I will not attend to > any hackfest if it is not during my holidays, my studies are overwhelming > me (:P). But if it is during my holidays, and in Europe, I will probably > come (but I can buy my train tickets myself, from Paris to Frankfurt it is > approximatively 100€ (~130$ I think)). Maybe only one day, I am not sure... > > It would be great, and would speed up the development :) > > Lucas > > Le 03/10/2012 18:48, Florian Reifschneider a écrit : > > 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 >> >> > > > > > > -- > 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 > > -- Best Regards, Chris Triantafillis
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