Okay so far you are truly multinational. It looks like Europe is the best place for it, maybe Frankfurt is a good choice.
Experience tells me that getting a person from the US to Europe is roughly 1800$, internal travel in the EU is a bit cheaper and can probably be had at a medium cost of 1000$ per person. Which means currently just around 10.000$ in travel costs alone, board is typically roughly the same so I'll need to find at least 20.000$ in sponsorships to be on the safe side. This is given that I can find a venue sponsor as renting a place is expensive. Luckily Elementary uses a lot of technology backed by businesses, e.g. Yorba, Codethink, Fluendo, Canonical and such, plus I might be able to squeeze a bit out of GNOME and maybe MonkeySquare can pitch in. It should at least get us a bit of the way there but it is still a high number to hit, we may have success using something like ChipIn to gather some funds as well. Regardless that is a lot of money which will take some time to gather. One option that has worked well in the past has been putting events right after FOSDEM since a lot of developers go there anyways and occasionally employers can be convinced to pay for the ticket. I gather you are all students or otherwise unable to take advantage of such an option. So a bit of a task ahead it seems. On the plus side this is going to a challenge which is always a good thing. Sent from my iPad Den 02/10/2012 kl. 11.01 skrev Dane Henson <[email protected]>: > If nobody is opposed to it, I created a collaborative google map and set it > so that anyone can edit it: > > http://goo.gl/maps/1flld > > I understand that this kind of thing can be controversial, but if you are > concerned about giving away your location, just drop a placemark on the > nearest major city. At least that way we can get a rough idea of the > distribution of elementary devs. > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Mario Guerriero <[email protected]> wrote: >> We have to make a shared Google DOC and write here our location... >> >> Sent from iPhone 5 >> >> Il giorno 02/ott/2012, alle ore 08:06, Daniel Foré <[email protected]> >> ha scritto: >> >>> Hey David, >>> >>> That sounds like an awesome idea! I'm CC'ing the dev mailing list so we can >>> see how many devs we have available and able to attend such a hackfest. >>> >>> As far as where we're located, we're quite distributed across the USA and >>> Europe haha. I wonder if there's a way to get a map of where everyone is? >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, David Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi Dan, >>>> >>>> I forgot your email and my OS X machine is reinstalling to prepare for >>>> my first Luna install so I am using Launchpads contact form really >>>> quickly. >>>> Regardless, I would like to contribute to Elementary but I am not much >>>> of a programmer, I do however arrange a mean Hackfest. I have previously >>>> pulled off two annual GNOME and Mono hackfests and since I have taken a >>>> position on the MonkeySquare board I am also doing a Hackfest on day 3 >>>> of our annual MonkeySpace conference. >>>> >>>> I have seen how effective such events have been for other groups and I >>>> think the perfect way to celebrate Luna's release will be holding a 5-7 >>>> day event to plan and hack on Luna+1 in person. I have some ideas for >>>> collecting funds for this venture and some good contacts so you can >>>> leave that to me, however if this has any interest I would like to know >>>> how many core developers you have and where you are geographically so to >>>> plan and budget this thing. >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> David Nielsen >>>> -- >>>> This message was sent from Launchpad by >>>> David Nielsen (https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen) >>>> using the "Contact this user" link on your profile page >>>> (https://launchpad.net/~danrabbit). >>>> For more information see >>>> https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best Regards, >>> >>> Daniel Foré >>> >>> elementaryos.org >>> >>> -- >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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