On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Stuart Jarvis
<stuart.jarvis@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:25:16 pm Damnshock wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 January 2011 15:29:52 Carl Symons wrote:
> > Yes, it is obvious where you live...definitely Anchorage, Helsinki or
> > Moscow.
> :
> :O I'm not sure that is a joke or if I just didn't explain myself correctly
> ::S (I live in Barcelona by the way).
>
> Anyhow... who is responsable of organizing this event? may I help in
> anyway?
We are :-) By which I mean people who consider themselves part of promo and
might be interested in attending.
Yes :) Also, I've sent an email to the e.V. asking if anyone has suggested topics for us to tackle since people on other teams might need help with things that we're not even aware of. I doubt we can do everything in a single sprint but I figured it'd be helpful for populating our "to do" list if nothing else.
So, this is how it works:
- We find out who we are and where we live (that's why it is really important
that you fill in the wiki page)
- Based on that, we can make some judgements about the better places to try
and host it - are we mostly in Europe, US, elsewhere
- We then need to find a venue for the meeting, ideally free which needs some
desks, chairs and internet access - this might be a university or sympathetic
company that can lend us some space over a weekend. If you have any ideas
please note them in the wiki
- We then need to finalise the venue and date, who is available to come, find
accommodation and apply to KDE e.V. for travel and accommodation funding
(probably some combination of Justin, Sandro, Pradeepto, me and someone local
to the venue can do that)
- KDE e.V. will have to consider whether our meeting is a good use of funds.
There is money there to be spent, but it is not unlimited and has to be
justified - hence we look for a venue that has lowest costs for travel etc
In practice, we won't get everyone there because we won't have everyone free
at the same time and maybe not enough money too. However, indicating when you
are free and where you live is a good way to raise the chance that it is held
at a convenient time and somewhere that it isn't too expensive to get you to
If you think you might know somewhere that could host the meeting, post it in
the wiki page or, if it's confidential, let me and Justin know.
So we're definitely in the early planning stages still but I'm glad to see there is interest from several people already. Please continue to post ideas and to flesh out some of the existing ones. For example, we put the desktop summit stuff at the top but it'd be good to have some specific objectives. I will try and find some time to ping the DS mailing list(s) about ideas if I can find the time but if someone else has time and can get to that sooner please do.
-Justin
Cheers,
Stu