[ANNOUNCE] Git Contributor Summit Registration, Mar 5, 2020, Los Angeles

Following up on my earlier announcement, I have some more details for the Contributor Summit at Git Merge this year:

  When: Thursday, March 5th. 10am-5pm.
  Where: Downtown Loft, 1054 S Olive St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
  What: Round-table discussion about Git
  Who: All contributors to Git or related projects in the Git ecosystem
       are invited; if you're not sure if you qualify, please ask!

Note that this is the day _after_ the main Git Merge conference, unlike previous years. The main conference schedule and agenda is up at:

  https://git-merge.com

To attend, you'll need to register online; please email me off-list for instructions and a special code. It's bundled with your main conference registration, so please DO NOT register for the main conference until you get the code. As with previous years, you'll have the option of attending for free, or paying the $125 conference fee (all of which goes to Software Freedom Conservancy).

If you'd like to come but need financial assistance with travel costs, please reach out as soon as possible to the Git PLC at git@sfconservancy.org. We'd like to make any funding decisions soon so that people have time to make travel arrangements. So let's try to have all requests in by next Monday, January 21st.

When picking a hotel, note that the contributor summit is not at the same venue as the main conference (but it's nearby). There are some hotels with special pricing listed on the conference page at https://git-merge.com/#experience.

We're still working out details of the A/V setup, but the plan is to have a way for people to join remotely. I'll send details when I have them.

The afternoon schedule for the main conference is a bit different this year: we'll have some round-table "Birds of Feather" discussions to get attendees talking to each other. Think about topics you'd like to discuss, and also whether you'd like to facilitate a discussion. The online registration will ask about both. If you're interested, we'll provide more information and some documentation in advance about how it will work.

There's also a tentative "Stump the Experts" panel as one of the sessions. There are still logistics to be worked out (e.g., how far in advance questions will come), but the general idea is to take attendee questions about some of the more confusing parts of Git. If you're interested in being on the panel, let me know.

Sooner is better to make our planning easier, so please let me know if you're interested by January 31st.

I hope to see everybody there!

-Peff