Hi Marc, all ------------------------------------------------------------ To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [Help-glpk] Any chance for a GLPK user group at a conference Message-ID: <04B026E012A010408111AFE9C67000A1231A77E5F6@owgusdfwmbx03> From: "Meketon, Marc" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:14:38 -0600 ------------------------------------------------------------
> I wonder if there should be some type of > face-to-face user group meeting to discuss GLPK. > Perhaps in Germany? Or perhaps associated with > another conference such as an INFORMS > conference. We could have some interesting > discussions about parallelization, source code > control, various features, etc. Germany would certainly have some appeal and Berlin offers some additional advantages. Berlin is fast becoming an open-source hub of sorts: LinuxDays [LinuxTage], Libre Office foundation, Chaos Computer Club, berliOS, and so. There is arguably more acceptance for free and open source (FOSS) by state and federal public agencies in Germany than elsewhere. --- The original suggestion would be to tack on to an academic conference. ISMP 2012 (21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming) was held in Berlin 19-24 August 2012. But there was virtually nothing on FOSS projects. FOSS doesn't seem to be a priority. That could be related to either solver performance or to the fact that industry collaboration and patents-before-papers are now important academic drivers. I looked at the INFORMS calendar to the end of 2104, but nothing particularly useful there: http://www.informs.org/Attend-a-Conference/Conference-Calendar ---- Another strategy would be to align with an academic institution. No one in my world is remotely interested in application programming (although GAMS is widely used), so I cannot really help there. --- Another strategy would be to try for a slot at the LinuxTag for May 2014: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxTag http://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en.html One idea would be for Andrew Makhorin to make a presentation and for us collectively to cover Andrew's travel and accommodation. There should be a GLPK meeting as well. But success would not be so contingent on this meeting being especially complete or productive. We could also try for 2013 but have only two weeks to react: "Candidates have until 20 January 2013 to submit their ideas for the programme of papers" Personally, the LinuxTag 2014 option has merit. I have been to quite a few past events, probably about five. Just some thoughts, Robbie --- Robbie Morrison PhD student -- policy-oriented energy system simulation Technical University of Berlin (TU-Berlin), Germany University email (redirected) : [email protected] Webmail (preferred) : [email protected] [from Webmail client] _______________________________________________ Help-glpk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-glpk
