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[David Nielsen <gnomeuser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay so far you are truly multinational. It looks like Europe is the best place for it, maybe Frankfurt is a good choice. 

Experience tells me that getting a person from the US to Europe is roughly 1800$, internal travel in the EU is a bit cheaper and can probably be had at a medium cost of 1000$ per person. Which means currently just around 10.000$ in travel costs alone, board is typically roughly the same so I'll need to find at least 20.000$ in sponsorships to be on the safe side. This is given that I can find a venue sponsor as renting a place is expensive.

Luckily Elementary uses a lot of technology backed by businesses, e.g. Yorba, Codethink, Fluendo, Canonical and such, plus I might be able to squeeze a bit out of GNOME and maybe MonkeySquare can pitch in. It should at least get us a bit of the way there but it is still a high number to hit, we may have success using something like ChipIn to gather some funds as well.

Regardless that is a lot of money which will take some time to gather. One option that has worked well in the past has been putting events right after FOSDEM since a lot of developers go there anyways and occasionally employers can be convinced to pay for the ticket. I gather you are all students or otherwise unable to take advantage of such an option.

So a bit of a task ahead it seems. On the plus side this is going to a challenge which is always a good thing.

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Den 02/10/2012 kl. 11.01 skrev Dane Henson <dane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> If nobody is opposed to it, I created a collaborative google map and set it so that anyone can edit it:
> 
> http://goo.gl/maps/1flld
> 
> I understand that this kind of thing can be controversial, but if you are concerned about giving away your location, just drop a placemark on the nearest major city.  At least that way we can get a rough idea of the distribution of elementary devs.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> We have to make a shared Google DOC and write here our location...
>> 
>> Sent from iPhone 5
>> 
>> Il giorno 02/ott/2012, alle ore 08:06, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>> 
>>> Hey David,
>>> 
>>> That sounds like an awesome idea! I'm CC'ing the dev mailing list so we can see how many devs we have available and able to attend such a hackfest.
>>> 
>>> As far as where we're located, we're quite distributed across the USA and Europe haha. I wonder if there's a way to get a map of where everyone is?
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, David Nielsen <gnomeuser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hi Dan,
>>>> 
>>>> I forgot your email and my OS X machine is reinstalling to prepare for
>>>> my first Luna install so I am using Launchpads contact form really
>>>> quickly.
>>>> Regardless, I would like to contribute to Elementary but I am not much
>>>> of a programmer, I do however arrange a mean Hackfest. I have previously
>>>> pulled off two annual GNOME and Mono hackfests and since I have taken a
>>>> position on the MonkeySquare board I am also doing a Hackfest on day 3
>>>> of our annual MonkeySpace conference.
>>>> 
>>>> I have seen how effective such events have been for other groups and I
>>>> think the perfect way to celebrate Luna's release will be holding a 5-7
>>>> day event to plan and hack on Luna+1 in person. I have some ideas for
>>>> collecting funds for this venture and some good contacts so you can
>>>> leave that to me, however if this has any interest I would like to know
>>>> how many core developers you have and where you are geographically so to
>>>> plan and budget this thing.
>>>> 
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> David Nielsen
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Best Regards,
>>> 
>>> Daniel Foré
>>> 
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