On Monday 03 August 2009 00.45:57 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > hi Ilya ... > > On Saturday 01 August 2009, Ilya M. Cassina wrote: > > As Tokamak3 will take place at some 3 hours by train from where I live > > (Neuchatel) I thought: "Hey! I could 'sneak' in, meet people, look how > > they work and maybe ask someone to explain me shortly the big picture > > behind plasma!" > > while it would be great to have you as a guest (as it would be for anyone > who is part of our community), there are some constraints on this event. > > there are the simple physical constraints of food and sleeping areas (for > which we have a well defined and limited budget for). there's also the > issue of time availability of both our host and the Plasma team. we're > there to get work done in a face-to-face setting, something we only get to > do a couple times a year. this means we're pretty busy and focused on the > projects at hand. > > so while it would be great to have you there, i think Mario really needs to > have the final say in this (for all i know, he may welcome a helping hand; > just as equally likely, more people could just be more responsibility and > work for him). you'd also have to take care of any expenses that you incur.
That's ok for me, I pay my train and bring some food; if Mario agrees, of course. > personally, at least for this time around, and again only if it's ok with > our host, i'd recommend coming out for maybe just a day or two (we might be > able to put you up for the night as well, 6 hrs of train in one day is > probably a bit much). if that's ok with Mario, you could come out, join us > as an observer during the sessions and maybe get some pointers during the > evenings / between work sessions. That's ok too, I can show up for just two days (i.e. the 4th and 5th september) and sleep anywhere (or not sleep at all, if it's just for one night!) > regardless of what happens this time around, if you do end up getting > involved with Plasma in the future, we hold Tokamak 1-2 times a year and so > far they've all been in Europe (and i don't really see that changing unless > even more of our contributors start living in the Americas ;) so you could > join us for one of those quite easily in the future. :) :) -- Ilya Cassina
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