-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nils Kneuper wrote:
> Okay, I just had a talk to a member of the student representatives and > we will need their support to get permissions for the conf. They in > general were speaking in favor of the conf, but raised an argument: we > should have soom real reason to do this in a university. One suggestion > was taht we could have one or two talks and official discussions a day > so that all students of the university can benefit of this conf. IMO it > is a rather good idea to do something like this since it would probably > not too hard to do a talk like this and maybe we can get some new ideas > from students participating. Here are some suggestions of topics that > came to my mind that could be used for a talk that might interest students: Yeah, we should have expected that to happen. It's a good idea anyway, both for us and the project itself (new contributors, maybe?), so I say we should give it a try. :) > * how to work and coordinate an international and decentralised projekt > as big as Wesnoth You? > * problems with complete rewrites of whole parts of the system and how > to get around these problems Mordante? ;) > * optimisations in structures and how they were found/implemented (an > example for this: rustys talk at linuxconf.au about the changes in ai > calculations) Rusty! > * problems when porting to special architectures and devices with > limited resources (eg the gp2x or really slow comps) Oh my! ME!!! ;-) I can do it, sure. Even if the port doesn't get playable I can still talk about obstacles which can't be passed in such endavours. :P > A suggestion I got from the > student representatives member was something like "official talks from > 10 till 12am, "closed" discussions and implementation work afterwards". > I think this is rather reasonable since when such a talk is given not > everyone participating in the conf has to be at the talk. This time should be convenient both for us and attendants from "outside". > Another topic: for how many hours a day and in which timeframe do we > need the rooms? If we only need the rooms in rahter "human" hours it > will not be a big problem, but if we wanted to work lets say from 7am to > 10pm we would need a key to the rooms which will be more problematic. My > first guess on times we would probaly do some real work was something > like from 10am till 6pm. What do you think? Normal everyday talk can be > done afterwards in some pubs, real work can be done in these hours. I think that 10am-6pm is perfectly fine. We should leave ourselves some time in the morning to sleep after hard work (:P) we do in the evening. - -- pozdrawiam Karol 'grzywacz' Nowak - -> Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -> WWW: http://jabba.pl/grzywacz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF8a4NRUieRYbGU9ARAsCRAKC5lYBpCpzeCadm8XAM9VUfZ2ZN/QCfRaJW W5PtVlCRTkJIMmA25QSZ0lI= =Lez9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
