Hello, all, (i'm writing this post on behalf of/in conjunction with Richard, cross-posting to the sqlite and Fossil mailing lists...)
Management summary: DRH will be in Munich, Germany on July 3rd. Would you like to join him? (If not, you can tap delete now.) Details: Richard Hipp will be in Munich, Germany for a few days in July and has graciously[1] offered to host a presentation and/or hacking session with regards to sqlite and/or Fossil SCM. Anyone who's within travelling distance of Munich on that day is welcomed to come along for the ride, with the following minor caveats: 1) The current plan is that my employer[2] will host the facilities. We can support up to "about 15-20 people with laptops," and up to about 25 without. We _could_ crowd 50 into one of the rooms if all agree to sit very close to one another and not move about too much ;). If we manage to get more people, we will either have to find new facilities or restrict the number of visitors to a first-come/first-served basis. _Cabled_ internet access for a small number of people won't be a problem, but we don't currently have wireless with external net access in the meeting rooms. AFAIK no German telephone provider offers flat-rate mobile internet (most cap it at 300MB/month), so it's unlikely that anyone will be willing to share the mobile phone for tethering purposes. 1.5) If you happen to know of a *flat-rate* mobile internet provider in Germany, please let me know! 2) i'm going to conservatively reserve 10 of the places for Richard's guests and people from my company, meaning we can sign up to 10-15 of you without any capacity concerns. i do not think that we will require all 10 reserved slots, but i need to reserve them nonetheless to avoid a potentially very embarrassing situation. 3) Even though Germans are renowned for their organization skills, it is not fully decided exactly what the agenda will look like (probably because neither myself nor Richard are German). The most likely scenario so far is that we sit down and do a hacking sprint on the Fossil SCM. Richard suggested, for example, implementing side-by-side and/or wysiwyg editing for Fossil's built-in wiki. If, however, we get 8 people who prefer sqlite and Richard and myself are the only Fossil hackers, then the plan may change (Richard has the final say-so). 4) Just in case it's not obvious, any presentation/session will be held in English. Obwohl er ein bisschen deutsch kann, englisch ist seine Muttersprache (und meine auch). If any of you will be in the area on July 3rd, would like to attend, and realistically could attend[3], please contact me (not Richard) directly OFF-LIST so that i can manage the logistics[4]. As i said, though, at this point everything except the date is "somewhat fluid," so i will not be able to give you much more information than is in this mail. There is no hard registration deadline, but earlier is better so that we can figure out what the best activity/activities for the group is/are (suggestions from those attending are certainly welcomed). Richard and i hope to meet some new faces from the community on July 3rd.[5] A good evening to all, and Happy Hacking! (Footnotes follow...) [1] = my words, not his ;) [2] = www.consol.de [3] = if you would "like to be there" but "[probably] cannot be there," i would respectfully ask that you _not_ sign up, both to reserve my own bandwidth and to ensure that we don't fill up all seats before those who _can_ be there get a chance to register. [4] = Maybe i'll enter you all in a database. Perhaps you can recommend a good one? ;) [5] = again, my words, not his ;) -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
