Re: Gittogether event?

> On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 07:34 -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > 	1: Are you interested in attending a Gittogether:
> > 		[ ] Yes   [ ]  No
>
> Yes, but happy to participate in technical events via telemetry.

> > 	2: Would you travel to Portland, Oregon for the Gittogether:
> > 		[ ] Yes   [ ]  No
>
> Sure, but only if several people thought it would be worth blowing US
> $1400 of community funds on my ticket ... that's what it costs to get
> across the Pacific!

> > 	3: What month/year would be best?
> > 		Option list for next 12 months from Oct 08-Oct 09.
>
> The summit time is actually quite good for me.
>
> > 	4: What would you hope to see/accomplish while there?
> > 		[ ] Instructor-lead Git training
> > 		[ ] 24 hour hack-a-new-feature contest
> > 		[ ] ... ?
> > 		Enter other ideas: [  <big text box thingy>    ]
>
> The main reason I'd be interested in joining would be to talk to people
> about the gittorrent project, or any other similar "cloud computing"
> over git ideas.  There was a bit of difference of opinions, and some
> divergence of ideas that was possibly avoidable.  It would be good to
> "crack out" the concepts with a group of people "in person".  I'm pretty
> sure there's already a videoconference setup at Catalyst, or if not
> there could be one jimmied up easily enough.  So that might be a nice
> cheap thing to do - I can give a 30 minute overview of the technology,
> and hopefully participate in group discussion for another 30 minutes (or
> as long as people are interested in the discussion really).
>
> Of course I'd equally like to meet people... that's all good and
> fun :-).  And I've got connections in Portland as well.  I just think
> it's probably not the best use of community funds.
>
> > 	5: Would you volunteer to help organize it?
>
> I'd volunteer for anything, but you'd better turn it down I'd be
> hopeless ;-).