Hi, as I mentioned in my e-mail yesterday I still would like to organize the Pugs Hackathon in end of February - beginning of March with Audrey Tang and local hackers. Audrey can be in Israel approximately between 23/Feb - 11/March. If we are lucky Allison Randal might also be able to join the Hackathon.
In order to make a progress with this I need to know who is interested and where can we hold it. I will have to find some source to cove the expenses of Audrey. Part of the costs I will pay out of my pocket but I will need to find other sources as well. If any of you works for a company that is interested to show their support of Perl and the Perl community -(e.g. because they would like to make it easier to recruit some of the local Perl developers) - please ask them to finance some of our expenses. I could think of two options: 1) Find a place similar to last year on a relatively remote location. (like Mt. Arbel) and be there for 7 days. People would be able to come for shorter period but in order to make a reservation I'll need to get commitments up front. The cost would be about 250-300 NIS/person/day including the venue and food. Unless we can find a sponsor that will pick up some of the expenses. (In this case we probably also need to hire a car that will increase the expenses I need to cover). 2a) Find a flat in Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan area where we can hold the Hackathon. We would probably not sleep there just come by some of the days. I can imagine that some people would go to work in the morning hours and then come to the hackathon in the afternoon/evening hours. This could be even a 10-12 days period. 2b) Find a company in the TA-RG area that during those 10-12 days would let us in their offices in one of the meeting rooms. I can also imagine that we would stay in a flat during daytime when the companies are working but in the evenings 18-23 when there might be more people we go to the office. The cost for these would be only the food you eat (part of it might be in some shared form) so I guess this means something like 30-60-90 NIS per day/person, largely depending when you come and go. For 2a and 2b I urgently need people who would volunteer their flat for this or who can arrange in their company that we stay there either full days or in the evening hours. 1 seems to be much more relaxed and real Hackathon-like. 2a-b is much cheaper but for this we need to find a place and it might be less intensive than 1. I think. >From everyone who is interested please let me know what do you think of the above and if you plan to come please let me know in which case would you come and for how long? e.g. If in remote location I would come 3 days if in TA area I can come every day from 19-23 and all day on Fri-Sat. Please do this ASAP so I can see how many people are interested. Gabor _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list Perl@perl.org.il http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
