On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:25:34AM +0200, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Thomas Keller wrote: > >Is there a general interest of doing another summit next year - maybe > >again in January/February? > > LOL, I was just thinking about it and that we should start organizing > such a thing if we are heading for the same time of the year...
If anything, it's probably on the late side to be organizing for January/February, so people probably would want to get on it quick... > >You know I couldn't attend to the last / first one this year, but I'd > >really like to make it this time. But since I'm even more broken than > >last year all I could afford is something in Europe. Opinions? > > To be able to meet everybody in person, I'd favor a single event, as > opposed to multiple local ones. OTOH that's certainly more expensive. > Any chance of getting some sponsorship again? Maybe for an event in > Europe? Asking Google Switzerland? ... > > If we can't get funds for a worldwide event, we should better try to > organize local gatherings. But let's check for funds, first. > > I'm certainly willing to help organizing. My problem is that I'm probably not up to helping much with the organization this time -- I'll certainly be interested in coming, though! Sponsorship was very helpful, but it's not a necessary thing. The hard and urgent part is finding space and picking dates -- last year, of course, Google gave us space and some money towards lodging, so that determined the space part of things. (The other options I thought about were either borrowing space from a friendly company that is less massive than Google, which companies are much easier to find but it's much harder to get space during weekdays; or else lodging in a hotel that had free wifi and at getting one suite that could serve as a work area during the day.) (You also want to think about transportation issues -- in Europe I guess there is generally public transportation? Basically just making sure that there is some sensible way for people to eat during days without requiring elaborate load-everyone-in-a-car stuff. Google, of course, made this super-easy.) I would not be surprised if Google were willing to offer space again, or there are other options like above. I don't know that Google's non-Mountain View campuses are set up for anything like this, but I don't know that they aren't, either (though there'd be no Leslie there, obviously :-)). Whoever decides to make things actually happen would of course get to make final decision on all these things, Europe vs. other continents etc. :-) -- Nathaniel -- Details are all that matters; God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right. -- Stephen Jay Gould _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel