Re: Gittogether event?

From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Aug 23, 2008, 05:26 UTC
Message-ID: <200808230726.03606.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080823003102.GS3483@spearce.org>

Le samedi 23 août 2008, Shawn O. Pearce a écrit :

Show 27 quoted lines

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> > > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > ...
> > >
> > >> If Git-together happens outside of that, I could join.
> > >
> > > I think it would be after that.  I doubt we could put it together
> > > with <30 days of notice.  Most people who would want to attend need
> > > to book travel arrangements.  While its possible with 30 days notice
> > > you can typically get better rates if you have more lead time.
> >
> > Ah, I somehow got a wrong impression about this event from the initial
> > posting, and certainly didn't imagine you were planning a
> > mini-conference like one, but a much more informal and smaller "while
> > some of us are in the west coast during/near GSoC mentor thing, how
> > about getting together for fun" kind of settings.
>
> Well, we could do that too.  But I think we'd want to maybe do that
> closer to Mountain View, where the actual summit is taking place,
> to cut down on the amount of travelling that the out-of-town folks
> have to do.
>
> E.g. you could come up this year, and we'll have maybe 3 or 4 of
> our mentors here for the summit.  We could even do a mini-one day
> thing at the Google campus.  I could probably get Google to give us a
> small conference room or tech talk room for half a day or something.

I think it needs to be at least 2 days long for people coming from Europe or farther, otherwise it might not be worth it for them to come. Or it needs to happen during, after or before another interesting conference.

The Google Mentor Summit is in Mountain View:

- October 25(Sat)-26(Sun)
(http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_timeline)

Maybe we can have the GitTogether also in Montain View just after that:

- October 27(Mon)-28(Tue)

so that the 3 mentors that come to the mentor summit just have to stay to 2 more days there.

> I don't really know what our community is interested in doing.
> So I'm just tossing out ideas and seeing what sticks.  If we don't
> do anything, that's fine too.

Or maybe we can just plan something for next year.

Thanks, Christian.