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
<mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
We have to make a shared Google DOC and write here our
location...
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Il giorno 02/ott/2012, alle ore 08:06, Daniel Foré
<daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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 <mailto: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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