On 15.11.17 16:00, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 12:24:43PM +0100, Steffen Möller wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I hope there are not too many of you who have reserved fixed flights >> already: There is an ELIXIR meeting already scheduled in Barcelona that >> ends on the 10th. It comes with two individuals that have attended our >> meetings (and even hosted them) in the past and there may be more >> who are interested to learn about us among them. > +1 > >> After a quick chat with the local organisers we came to the conclusion >> that shifting our meeting to start right when that meeting stops would >> serve Debian Med the most. > I wonder whether it would be possible to have our Sprint *before* the > ELIXIR meeting. I do not question your point above but I have strong > private reasons to keep the weekend 10./11. February 2018 free. If > anybody else would be in a similar situation (and the ELIXIR meeting > would last the whole week so that we can profit from the attached dates) > I would welcome to shift it to the weekend before.
That would be in parallel with FOSDEM, which I had hoped to avoid this time since that complaint came up a few times before. From what I understood, those ELIXIR-folks at least in part have another meeting at that week before. Sigh. I would not want to move it again, if that is possible. Hm. How about extending it Friday to Monday (or even Tuesday) so you have half of it? I am toying with the thought to visit collaborators afterwards and would be in the country for a while, anyway. And how about having a second retreat with a summer-in-mountains-theme (which is a bit of an inside joke since this pretty much describes the area Andreas lives in, while I started this water-theme close to my home at the Baltic sea, so I am basically asking if we could compensate should Andreas miss parts of this Sprint)? I keep thinking that every of our meetings has done something good to our Debian Blend, so maybe we can double that? Thinking about extra meetings, ISMB is in Chicago next year. Should we (don't know if I am going, yet, but some of the regular Debian Med Sprint attendees will certainly be there) possibly find ways to meet? Maybe at the OBF Codefest (a conference-independent premeeting)? Best, Steffen
