From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:42:50 GMT Subject: Re: Gittogether event? Message-ID: <20080823194250.GA876@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <200808230726.03606.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Christian Couder wrote: > 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.