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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Carsten,

Thank you for organizing this!  It sounds like it will be a lot of fun.
I wish I could make it but I doubt I will have the time.  Although I
hope we have the stable release out before May 16.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 3/19/2018 1:00 PM, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> beside the annual big Debian DebConf there are also smaller events with
> this format called MiniDebConf. The Debian (Mini)DebConfs are open for
> every interested people.
> One of such a mini conference is getting held in Hamburg Germany at the
> end of the spring this year.
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2018/MiniDebConfHamburg
> 
> MiniDebCamp: May 16 to May 18 followed by
> MiniDebConf: May 19 and May 20
> 
> The intention of the MiniDebConf is of course dedicated to the Debian
> contributors. But every upstream project is also a contributor to Debian
> in various ways. :)
> 
> I asked Holger Levsen, the main organizer of this MiniDebConf, if it
> would be o.k. if people which are involved and contributing to KiCad
> could also use some room, equipment and space within the CCC Hamburg
> Hackerspace to work on the next KiCad release for bug squashing,
> documentation, l10n work or also for improving the libraries of KiCad
> and he gave me a warm welcome for this idea!
> 
> The users of the CCCHHS are also using KiCad very often and would like
> to provide their space to get a famous KiCad 5 release soon.
> 
> So I'm willing to help organizing such a subevent within the Debian
> MiniDebConf if there are enough people who have an interest to make such
> a meetup happen!
> 
> I asked for hacking or workshop space for about estimated 10 people, and
> even it would be coming more people this should be no problem.
> 
> For keep food and space organized it's needed that the organizer know
> how many people will come to the MiniDebConf. For this there is a
> registration on the Debian wiki.
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2018/MiniDebConfHamburg/Registration
> 
> For people which haven't a Debian account or a wiki login please contact
> me and I can add you to the participants list. A registration deadline
> is the 1th of May 2018.
> If there are further question which are not intended for the ML please
> also send me an email.
> 
> And one more rule, we would need to hold at least one talk about KiCad,
> no matter what kind and what language. ;) Should be no problem I guess.
> 
> I would be happy if some more people are willing to attend the
> MiniDebConf in Hamburg and we could teach each other e.g. about the
> library content creation or improving!
> And the CCCHHS user are happy if they could get workshops.
> 
> So are there other people which would like to meet other KiCad
> Developers, Librarians and Contributers on MiniDebConf in Hamburg?
>