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? -- Regards Carsten Schoenert -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-lib-committers Post to : kicad-lib-committers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-lib-committers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp