The organizing comity for the Narvik gathering are suggesting some changes for the gathering 24-26 April.
Du to full fights out from Narvik on Sunday 24, the developer gathering for many will be from Friday to Saturday. Loosing a whole day. Traveling to Narvik may take 8-12 hours one way (It's great distances in Norway). Then only 8 waking hours are left to contribute. To solve this logistical challenge, Viggo Fedreheim at the Municipality of Narvik suggested to split the gathering, doing it in Trondheim and Narvik: * We will do a user conference on Friday 24 April in Narvik. We had this planned anyway. Neighbouring municipalities are now considering Skolelinux cause of reduce tax income due to the financial crisis. They want to hear more about the success of Narvik with 1200 low fat and thin clients at 15 schools. The administration also want to know a bit more on OpenOffice for administrative use. Also netbooks and how free software will be used on mobile devices are a hot topics. Maybe Klaus can do a stunt on netbooks and laptops? :) * We invite developers to Trondheim at the same weekend as Narvik, April 24-26. Arnt Ove Gregersen invited developer to Trondheim 10 days ago. First he suggested to house this at his home. Since more were interested, his employer said yes to use their office for the weekend. This way contributors to Skolelinux can work considerable compared to Narvik, caused by full flights on Sunday 24 April. Food and travel will be covered. Of course, there are possibilities to contribute in Narvik too. But then you need to stay from Friday to Monday, leaving on Monday 4:40 in the morning. Going to Trondheim is much easier, and the best option for all those who has to work on Monday 27 April. We dare to do this change, because no one have been listed on the wiki yet, or indicating that they've bought a flight ticket yet. This in accordance with recent e-mails and the wiki[1] . We were also able to get access to a workspace in Trondheim without much hassle: 1. http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2009-04-24.26-Narvik If anyone by chance has already paid flight tickets to Narvik. You should consider a re-book to Trondheim. The added cost may be covered by the board of Free Software in Schools (Norway), since it's a kind of Force majeure[2]. I guess that sponsors of Skolelinux understands such a situation. 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_majeure That's all at this point. Best regards Knut Yrvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
