Re: Gittogether event? (was: GSoC 2008 final evaluations)

From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Aug 23, 2008, 02:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20080823025030.GB22675@kroah.com>
In-Reply-To: <200808220536.15746.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 05:36:15AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

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> Le jeudi 21 août 2008, Shawn O. Pearce a écrit :
> > Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> > > I see. In this case perhaps the money can be spend to fund travel
> > > expenses for another event where many of us could meet instead of the
> > > mentor summit? It could even be better as Junio and perhaps Linus could
> > > be there too.
> >
> > Google has offered to help us organize a Gittogether in Portland
> > if we desire.  Portland was suggested because rumor has it that
> > Linus doesn't like to travel.
> 
> Great!
> 
> > I'm not sure how far "offered to help" goes yet.  I can pursure
> > that further if we want to put something together.  Really it
> > needs to be discussed on the git ML as we'd want as many folks
> > from the community to come out if they could.
> 
> Right, so I add the list to CC.
> 
> Here are a few question to start the discussion:
> 
> What date would be best?
> Who could come?
> What needs to be done to organize it?
> Who could help organize it?

It could be done as part of the Linux Plumbers Conference this September
in Portland where there will be at least one git talk:
	http://linuxplumbersconf.org/

thanks,

greg k-h