Hi, Would you please let me ask if you have any standard procedure or such in terms of defining deadlines. I mean, I'd like to know when the proposal is marked as accepted or rejected.
Thanks. On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Jonas Brømsø Nielsen <jona...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hola, > > My point was that: > > - NPW is aimed at local community, users and sponsors > > So we can have a NPW in Baltikum no problem, it is simply a matter of JFID. > > But at the same time I want to emphasize that it is just a workshop and any > other party can organize a NPW in 2010 in addition if the local user base > and potential organizers feel like it, so perhaps it is time to remove the > year identifier from the name and refer to: NPW <city>. > > I am afraid that we are creating a new YAPC, which was never the idea. > Workshop used to be the general label for these non-YAPC mini conferences. > > The annual scheduling has been good at helping us to keep continuity, but > expending the area, so we now look at: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, > Iceland and Baltikum - will give us at hard time building a foundation for > continuity for local groups and users. So perhaps the NPW tag should just be > set free and anybody can organize a NPW. > > We could also stick to the annual round-robin scheme and then organizers > would have to wait their turn or local organizers should organize something > else, like hackathons etc. > > NPW is becoming a good brand and we just need to keep the brand alive - also > locally. > > jonasbn > > On 15/05/2009, at 13.00, Salve J Nilsen wrote: > >> Jonas Brømsø Nielsen said: >>> >>> I am actually more keen on the idea of a Baltic Perl Workshop, traveling >>> between the 3 countries. I am not saying that we will not promote it and a >>> lot of people will probably attend. >> >> I'd love to see NPW include the Baltic states. >> >> I got the impression that the Baltics are quite interested in moving >> closer to the nordic countries, and with the long history they have with >> especially Finland, Sweden and Denmark, I think it would be nice to let them >> arrange a Nordic Perl Workshop. Let's welcome them into the community with >> open arms. :) >> >> Of course, if the locals (should we find someone willing) rather would >> call it a Baltic Perl Workshop, I think that's fine too. But saying they >> can't call it NPW because of some old history or notion of what's "Nordic" >> just reeks old-school (cold war) politics, IMO. >> >> But in the end, the locals who organize such an event should make the >> decision themselves, and if they would like to use the NPW name, we should >> allow it. >> >> We made a rule that NPW should be in the Nordic countries, and we can >> change this rule just as easy as we can make it. >> >> >> - Salve >> >> -- >> #!/usr/bin/perl >> sub AUTOLOAD{$AUTOLOAD=~/.*::(\d+)/;seek(DATA,$1,0);print# Salve Joshua >> Nilsen >> getc DATA}$"="'};&{'";@_=unpack("C*",unpack("u*",':4@,$'.# >> <s...@foo.no> >> '2!--"5-(50P%$PL,!0X354UC-PP%/0\`'."\n"));eval "&{'@_'}"; __END__ is >> near! :) > > -- Andrew Shitov ______________________________________________________________________ a...@shitov.ru | http://shitov.ru