Re: Gittogether event?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Aug 23, 2008, 19:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20080823194250.GA876@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200808230726.03606.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:

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> 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.

Hmm. Not only that, but a number of our users come out to the Mentor Summit. ~170 open souce projects send folks to that summit, and a fair percentage of those are now in Git. Many who travel far for the summit already plan to stay a few days if they can.

-- 
Shawn.