Hi, >> After last year's GetTogether, we decided to untie the GT >> from any commercial involvement (however small there ever was any), >> making sure the GT is an event organized by and for the Cocoon >> community.
Do you mean: No sponsoring? >> * are we on for 10-11 October? Why not. You will always find another conference in the same timeframe. >> * Ghent again? Alternatives? The question is if you want to make this a Ghent thing in the long run or if you want to move it around in Europe. I am not sure if moving it around might attract new / more people or not. >> * are you up for volunteering? Yes! >> * website design & development (the cocoongt.org domain has been >> registered for this purpose) Can't last year's infrastructure be re-used? >> * call for proposals and ideas What do you mean? Setting specific topics or an overall theme in the CFP? Regards, Torsten > Hi folks, > > a few months ago, I tentatively reserved "The Pand" in Ghent again for > our annual gathering - now scheduled for 10-11 october 2005. Only a > while after that, I learned about O'Reilly EuroOSCON, to be held > October 17-20 in Amsterdam. There's obviously a bit of a scheduling > conflict here - OTOH, Amsterdam and Ghent are only a 2 1/2 hour drive > from each other, and October is always a busy conference month. > > We're May now, and we need to decide how to move forward for the > GetTogether. After last year's GetTogether, we decided to untie the GT > from any commercial involvement (however small there ever was any), > making sure the GT is an event organized by and for the Cocoon > community. That means we need to form some sort of GT organisation > committee, for which we need a couple of volunteers. > > As for now, we need the following answers to be answered: > > * are we on for 10-11 October? > * Ghent again? > * are you up for volunteering? > > Things we need to tackle soon now: > > * website design & development (the cocoongt.org domain has been > registered for this purpose) > * call for proposals and ideas > > We might seek some affiliation with the Apache Conference team as well. > > Please direct your replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Regards, > > </Steven> > -- > Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ > Outerthought - Open Source Java & XML An Orixo Member > Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ > stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
