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Re: Elementary Hackfest

 

I'm currently attending university in Frankfurt (computer science at Goethe
Univerity), so if Frankfurt would be decided on for the location, I could
try to get some kind of support from the university and certainly help to
organize on site.

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Dane Henson <dane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Haha, we're so spread out in the US.  It looks like my wife and I are
> going to have to plan a trip to Europe without the kids.  I'v always wanted
> to see Germany. :P
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Eduard Gotwig <gotwig@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If we would do it in Frankfurt, I am sure we can get sponsors on board for
> this.
>
>
> 2012/10/2 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.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> 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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>>
>>
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>>
>> Daniel Foré
>>
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