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[Chris Triantafillis <christriant1995@xxxxxxxxx>]

This year i can't attend any hackfest either...after this year i will be
more free...

2012/10/3 xapantu <xapantu@xxxxxxxxx>

>  Hi,
>
> I am living in Paris now. Just for your information, I will not attend to
> any hackfest if it is not during my holidays, my studies are overwhelming
> me (:P). But if it is during my holidays, and in Europe, I will probably
> come (but I can buy my train tickets myself, from Paris to Frankfurt it is
> approximatively 100€ (~130$ I think)). Maybe only one day, I am not sure...
>
> It would be great, and would speed up the development :)
>
> Lucas
>
> Le 03/10/2012 18:48, Florian Reifschneider a écrit :
>
> 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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>>>
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>>>
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Chris Triantafillis