From kde-pim Sun Aug 25 12:19:39 2013 From: Mark Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:19:39 +0000 To: kde-pim Subject: Re: [Kde-pim] [Kde-pim-meeting] Time for the next PIM Autumn sprint. Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-pim&m=137743322814210 On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Volker Krause wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 23 August 2013 00:42:51 Mark wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Daniel Vr=E1til wr= ote: >> > On Friday 09 of August 2013 20:29:03 Mark wrote: >> >> Hey folks, >> > >> > >> > >> >> We also need a host. If you are willing to host us, could you let me >> >> know the dates that work for you? I'll add them to [2] and try to make >> >> a most optimal match between those and the doodle result. >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > the Red Hat office in Brno, Czech Republic is available for us. We don= 't >> > have beer like kdabians but we have a football table too! :) We can ha= ve >> > two big rooms which can be merged to one even bigger room, both with d= ata >> > projectors, some flipcharts and whiteboards, coffee and a nice view ov= er >> > Brno. >> > >> > *Quick summary* >> > >> > o Location: >> > - next to a tram station >> > - ~15 minutes by tram from city center >> > - hotel 5 minutes walk from the office >> > - night buses every 30 minutes - no need to walk from pub! >> > >> > o Hotel (that we usually recommend to visitors) >> > >> > - 5 minutes walk from the office >> > - 46=80/night for single room (incl. breakfast) >> > - 59=80/night for double room (incl. breakfast) >> > >> > o Travel: >> > - direct flight from London Standsted or Luton to Brno Airport (then= 30 >> > >> > minutes bus to city center) >> > >> > - flying to Vienna Airport, then taking a bus that goes every 2-3 ho= urs >> > >> > from the airport terminal directly to center of Brno (~2 hours, 12= =80) >> > >> > - flying to Prague, then getting across Prague to train or bus stati= on >> > >> > (~1 hour, have to change lines several times) and then by a bus or >> > >> > train to Brno (~2.5 hours, ~8=80). >> > >> > - EuroCity trains Berlin->Brno, Vienna->Brno or Budapest->Brno >> > >> > o Other >> > >> > - good and cheap beer :) >> > >> > If you have any questions, feel free to ask. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Dan >> >> Hi Daniel, >> >> Thank you very much for that very generous offer! >> Jos was having some other options in Germany so i have to get back to >> him to see how we stand there. >> I'il come back to you once i know more and that will be as soon as possi= ble. > > I'm a bit surprised to see > http://kdeblog.mageprojects.com/2013/08/24/pim-autumn-sprint-searches-for= -host-in-germany/ after Dan's offer. Especially the reasoning "most PIM hac= kers > are living in Germany" doesn't match what I see in the Doodle poll. There= 's > only 3/16 people on there living in Germany, and while I don't know where > Michael lives, at least Thorsten and I live quite a bit apart, so the tra= vel > costs will incur even for a location in Germany. And from what I see abov= e, > Brno easily beats Berlin in hotel costs. There might only be 3/16, but the potential is more. And that's why i got the suggestion to keep searching for a place in Germany. But yeah, now that i look at it again it might have been better to just accept Brno as i got the offer. > > With the date moved to November after both Qt Dev Days now I can of course > check again if our office is available, I just want to make sure we aren't > still stuck in the past when KDE PIM indeed mostly involved Germans ;) Th= at's > luckily over, the team is much more diverse now. How many German pim hackers are there anyway? Just curious about that numbe= r :) > > regards, > Volker _______________________________________________ KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/