This meme has been bubbling on the back burner for a long time, but here's something relevant from a related discussion on the (private) ASF members list:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] we've recently been trying to figure out ways for the > > SpamAssassin committers to get together for a face-to-face meetup. Few > > of us now work for companies willing to fund travel to [Apachecon] Justin Erenkrantz responded: > What I would see us support is smaller more TLP-focused conferences. > This would require that the registration is open to the public and that > there are talks are given. (Well, if you don't have specific talks, > then I feel that it is harder to make a legitimate case for paying the > way for the speakers.) So, if the SpamAssassin PMC wanted to run a > two-day conference/sprint somewhere, this is something that I think > ConCom should (and would!) help out with. OFBiz is doing an event > co-located with AC in NO (on Monday/Tuesday before the conference > begins) - their PMC selected the program, etc, etc. There is no reason > that SpamAssassin or any other PMC shouldn't do something similar - and > it doesn't have to be co-located with AC, but it does ease the > logistical pain a bit. -- justin This, in my opinion, is a very interesting idea -- a co-located, but smaller-scale and SpamAssassin-specific event. --j.
