Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?
On Wed 27 Jan 2010 12:08, Dave Neary writes: > And Andy, for 2010, it's probably not too late, if you get a request in > quick :) The only thing is that adding extra space for the week would > probably have an impact on the budget at this stage, which we'd have to > think about. OK, will poke GNU people, and get back within the week if we think we can pull it off. A -- http://wingolog.org/ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?
Hi, Andrew Cowie wrote: > Oh? Internet access. Did we need that? I am increasingly thinking that being excessively connected virtually is blurring the lines with the real physical connections we have in our lives, which are objectively better than virtual connections. I now regularly have completely disconnected weekends, evenings and holidays, and I feel better for it. I'd love to see us run a retreat for GNOME with no internet connection & see what happened. ISTR an Ubuntu developer meeting had no internet once, and the day went so well that it was suggested there should be a no-internet retreat day every year. Don't know what happened to that idea. Anyway - I for one would love to see us gather together someplace with no cellular coverage, no internet access, living in tents, and everyone bring lots of paper, markers and pens, and see what happens. Bet it'd be a success. We could call it "Get a First Life Camp" in honour of the most excellent (and apparently no longer online) http://www.getafirstlife.com Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?
Hi, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > Dave is worried about any overhead that co-locating this could have > with the organizing committee and the volunteers, what would GNU need > in terms of resources, space, inftrastructure? how big could it be? > That sort of stuff :-) Actually, I was worried (let me see if I can say this right) if aligning with GUADEC would be attractive to GNU developers, but that aligning with Akademy might not appeal. Given that a colocated conference would already be hosting 800 people plus, I don't think an extra 30 or 40 would be a big deal in organisational overhead. And Andy, for 2010, it's probably not too late, if you get a request in quick :) The only thing is that adding extra space for the week would probably have an impact on the budget at this stage, which we'd have to think about. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?
Hi, On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:46:05PM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > On Tue 26 Jan 2010 15:07, Dave Neary writes: > > Andy Wingo wrote: > >> So inspired by Vincent's recent mail, let this be a mini-proposal for > >> GHM co-location with the 2011 GUADEC. The ideal needs would be one > >> smallish (40-50 people) room for three days. GHM events have had some > >> funding attached to them in the past, enough to support them; while of > >> course I can't predict the future, GNU probably could help support costs > >> of the venue, when the time comes to discuss that. > > > > Let me just confirm that that is not a typo - this is for 2011 yes, not > > 2010? > > That was the intention, yes. I figured it was too late to talk about > 2010, but if GUADEC organizers are interested we could probably do > something. Well, it's not really to late for that, and it'd be a cool addition to the conference I think. Gr, Koen (guadec 2010 organizer) ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?
On 1/26/10 4:56 PM, "Andrew Cowie" wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 21:43 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > >> (/me thinks of Vilanova) > > Which was a bloody awesome GUADEC, in no small measure because of the > Ice Cream shop, and fluendo's Beach Party. They're _all_ awesome, but yes. That. > Oh? Internet access. Did we need that? The first day or so at Birmingham, we all got onto the Internet using one attendee's Nokia S60 phone, which he turned into a WiFi access point I'm not sure which is more frightening: that we did it, or that we _could_. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?
At Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:27:57 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > So inspired by Vincent's recent mail, let this be a mini-proposal for > GHM co-location with the 2011 GUADEC. The ideal needs would be one > smallish (40-50 people) room for three days. GHM events have had some > funding attached to them in the past, enough to support them; while of > course I can't predict the future, GNU probably could help support costs > of the venue, when the time comes to discuss that. >From the GNU side, it is definitely useful to colocate with another event. So if it is possible to do that at GUADEC in the future I think it would be a good thing. -- Brian Gough (former GHM organiser) ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 21:43 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > and ideally internet though that is not > essential, and we all know how conferences work in the end... (/me > thinks of Vilanova) Which was a bloody awesome GUADEC, in no small measure because of the Ice Cream shop, and fluendo's Beach Party. Oh? Internet access. Did we need that? :) AfC Sydney signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?
Hi Alberto, On Tue 26 Jan 2010 21:07, Alberto Ruiz writes: > 2010/1/26 Andy Wingo : > [Dave Neary wrote] >>> If GUADEC and Akademy colocate again in 2011, do you think that might >>> have an impact on the GHM? >> >> It would probably make it more awesome! There are a number of KDE-using >> GNU folk. There are GNOME people too, of course :) > > That doesn't really answers the question :P Hm, we enter the realm of interpretation :) > Dave is worried about any overhead that co-locating this could have > with the organizing committee and the volunteers, what would GNU need > in terms of resources, space, inftrastructure? how big could it be? > That sort of stuff :-) Is there something that my original message didn't make clear? :) Resources: GHM has had low budgets in the past, due to reuse of venue, and sponsorship from various organizations (FSF and FSFE, to name recent examples) Space: As mentioned in my original mail, ideally one room of 40-50 people for three days. Could be before/after the main GUADEC days. Infrastructure: Normal infrastructure associated with a room: projector or screen of some sort, and ideally internet though that is not essential, and we all know how conferences work in the end... (/me thinks of Vilanova) Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?
2010/1/26 Andy Wingo : > Hi Dave, > Hi Andy, >> If GUADEC and Akademy colocate again in 2011, do you think that might >> have an impact on the GHM? > > It would probably make it more awesome! There are a number of KDE-using > GNU folk. There are GNOME people too, of course :) That doesn't really answers the question :P Dave is worried about any overhead that co-locating this could have with the organizing committee and the volunteers, what would GNU need in terms of resources, space, inftrastructure? how big could it be? That sort of stuff :-) > Regards, > > Andy > -- > http://wingolog.org/ > ___ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > -- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?
Hi Dave, On Tue 26 Jan 2010 15:07, Dave Neary writes: > Hi Andy, > > Andy Wingo wrote: >> So inspired by Vincent's recent mail, let this be a mini-proposal for >> GHM co-location with the 2011 GUADEC. The ideal needs would be one >> smallish (40-50 people) room for three days. GHM events have had some >> funding attached to them in the past, enough to support them; while of >> course I can't predict the future, GNU probably could help support costs >> of the venue, when the time comes to discuss that. > > Let me just confirm that that is not a typo - this is for 2011 yes, not > 2010? That was the intention, yes. I figured it was too late to talk about 2010, but if GUADEC organizers are interested we could probably do something. > If GUADEC and Akademy colocate again in 2011, do you think that might > have an impact on the GHM? It would probably make it more awesome! There are a number of KDE-using GNU folk. There are GNOME people too, of course :) Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?
Hi Andy, Andy Wingo wrote: > So inspired by Vincent's recent mail, let this be a mini-proposal for > GHM co-location with the 2011 GUADEC. The ideal needs would be one > smallish (40-50 people) room for three days. GHM events have had some > funding attached to them in the past, enough to support them; while of > course I can't predict the future, GNU probably could help support costs > of the venue, when the time comes to discuss that. Let me just confirm that that is not a typo - this is for 2011 yes, not 2010? If GUADEC and Akademy colocate again in 2011, do you think that might have an impact on the GHM? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
GNU hackers meeting & GUADEC 2011 colocation?
Hi all, At November's GNU Hackers Meeting in Gothenburg, there was some interest expressed in increasing communication between GNU hackers and GNOME hackers. Co-locating a GNU Hackers Meeting with GUADEC would be a great way to do this. GHM events have in the past been pretty small -- about 25 people or so. See http://www.gnu.org/ghm/ for info about past schedules. So inspired by Vincent's recent mail, let this be a mini-proposal for GHM co-location with the 2011 GUADEC. The ideal needs would be one smallish (40-50 people) room for three days. GHM events have had some funding attached to them in the past, enough to support them; while of course I can't predict the future, GNU probably could help support costs of the venue, when the time comes to discuss that. I have copied the GNU internal list on this mail. Unfortunately GNU has no public lists for internal discussion -- a bit odd, but that's how it is. So I've also set the reply-to to foundation-list; perhaps we (both groups) can thread discussion there? Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/ ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
