Hey Carsten, Thank you for organizing this! It sounds like it will be a lot of fun. I wish I could make it but I doubt I will have the time. Although I hope we have the stable release out before May 16.
Cheers, Wayne On 3/19/2018 1:00 PM, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Hi there, > > beside the annual big Debian DebConf there are also smaller events with > this format called MiniDebConf. The Debian (Mini)DebConfs are open for > every interested people. > One of such a mini conference is getting held in Hamburg Germany at the > end of the spring this year. > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2018/MiniDebConfHamburg > > MiniDebCamp: May 16 to May 18 followed by > MiniDebConf: May 19 and May 20 > > The intention of the MiniDebConf is of course dedicated to the Debian > contributors. But every upstream project is also a contributor to Debian > in various ways. :) > > I asked Holger Levsen, the main organizer of this MiniDebConf, if it > would be o.k. if people which are involved and contributing to KiCad > could also use some room, equipment and space within the CCC Hamburg > Hackerspace to work on the next KiCad release for bug squashing, > documentation, l10n work or also for improving the libraries of KiCad > and he gave me a warm welcome for this idea! > > The users of the CCCHHS are also using KiCad very often and would like > to provide their space to get a famous KiCad 5 release soon. > > So I'm willing to help organizing such a subevent within the Debian > MiniDebConf if there are enough people who have an interest to make such > a meetup happen! > > I asked for hacking or workshop space for about estimated 10 people, and > even it would be coming more people this should be no problem. > > For keep food and space organized it's needed that the organizer know > how many people will come to the MiniDebConf. For this there is a > registration on the Debian wiki. > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2018/MiniDebConfHamburg/Registration > > For people which haven't a Debian account or a wiki login please contact > me and I can add you to the participants list. A registration deadline > is the 1th of May 2018. > If there are further question which are not intended for the ML please > also send me an email. > > And one more rule, we would need to hold at least one talk about KiCad, > no matter what kind and what language. ;) Should be no problem I guess. > > I would be happy if some more people are willing to attend the > MiniDebConf in Hamburg and we could teach each other e.g. about the > library content creation or improving! > And the CCCHHS user are happy if they could get workshops. > > So are there other people which would like to meet other KiCad > Developers, Librarians and Contributers on MiniDebConf in Hamburg? > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
