Good morning all I'd like to make you a proposal and offer for the location of a possible next Plasma meeting (Tokamak III?).
And here is the overview to this mail: - Abstract - Offer in detail: -- Exact location -- Sleeping -- Time & date - Something about me - And at the end an excuse for my bad english... Abstract: --------- I'd like you to offer my family's vacation home for a next Plasma meeting. It's located in the middle of the Alpes (Switzerland) in a very inspiring area. The house offers room for 10-20 people working there and 10-12 people sleeping there (there will be other possibilities to sleep nearby). The best date for me would be between middle of January and the middle of February 2009 which is around or short after the release of KDE 4.2 [1]. Offer in detail: ---------------- - What's included? ------------------ -- Working rooms -- Electricity -- A decent internet connection -- Other infrastructure: e.g. whiteboard, cables, network, etc. -- Heating (it'll be winter then ;-) -- Sleeping possibilities inhouse for most of the people and I'll try to get more (from my aunt) for the rest (there will be a solution!) -- I'll try to find sponsors for the food and will see that you won't go hungry to bed. -- An inspiring and wonderful winter landscape... - Exact location? ----------------- The house is located in Randa [2] a small village in the middle of the Alpes in Switzerland. Randa is located near to a famous winter sport destination called Zermatt [3]. The village is reachable by public traffic and cars. If you come by plane you can chose from three different airports (Zurich, Switzerland; Geneva, Switzerland and Malpensa, Italy) which are all approx. three hours away from Randa. Randa and Zermatt are located in the Canton Valais [3] in the south of Switzerland near the Italian border. In Valais people speak French and German. - Sleeping conditions? ---------------------- I can offer warm rooms but we won't have enough beds for all the people in the house. What I can and will offer are the few beds, mattresses, futons and other possibilites to sleep. For the people which have no room in the house to sleep I'll try to get one or two appartements 1 minute away. But I'm not yet sure about the financial conditions of these appartements. I'll do my best ;-). - Time & date? -------------- The personal reason to chose the interval from middle of January to the middle of February 2009 are quite simple: I've exams till the middle of January and the university begins again at the middle of February. But I think the timing isn't that bad as you see in the release schedule of KDE [1]. Something about me: ------------------- I use free software since 10 years and try to promote it where and when I can. Since 5 years I study education, computer sciences and computational linguistics at the university of Zurich, Switzerland. But in 1999 I already finished a schooling as a primary school teacher. My experience with KDE is mainly as a user. Since almost 4 years the primary school in Ried-Brig (the village in Valais where I grew up) uses KDE as their main desktop. Last year in Glasgow at the Akademy I presented their usage of free software. I lurk since years on more than 10 KDE mailinglists and hope to finally start to contribute to KDE codewise this next term... So what do you think? Are you interested? Would this be something for a Plasma meeting? I'll be AFK till the weekend and will answer possible questions from then on. If you're interested I'll offer even more information and details and photos... Greets from Switzerland and happy hacking Mario [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.2_Release_Schedule [2] http://www.randa.ch (only German) [3] http://www.zermatt.ch [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valais _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel