If anyone has any flight passing through Brasilia let me know so that we can meet.
\0/ 2015-10-20 12:11 GMT-02:00 Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org>: > Hi, > > It's time we start to organize the next team sprint. During the Debconf > BoF I volunteered to organize it in Brazil, and everyone thought that > was a good idea. Thanks to Jonas we already have an initial wiki page, > where we will be organizing all information: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Meeting/Brazil2016 > > So let's start by defining a few basic points. > > Location > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Initially I thought about bringing the sprint to some major Brazilian > city (São Paulo/Rio/Brasília), where most of the people coming from the > Northern hemisphere could get to with a direct flight from a major hub. > > But then I won't be able to be a very useful host, so my suggestion now > is that we do it in my home city of Curitiba, where I will know nice > places to take you for lunch/dinner, and will be able to provide more > useful local support in general. It will also be a lot easier for me to > arrange accomodation and a venue. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curitiba > > For those coming from the Northern hemisphere, in practical terms that > will mean an extra ~1h flight from São Paulo, or a slightly longer one > from Rio or Brasília. > > Duration > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > During the last sprint, and also during Debconf, we remember from > chatting with a few people that the 3 day sprint we were doing is > perhaps too short. Maybe this time we should have a full week, Monday to > Friday? > > Period > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > We agreed that it should happen at the beginning of the year, because > Ruby is usually released on Christmas, and we should be transitioning to > Ruby 2.3 by them. We thought about something between January and April. > January being high summer season (and also already dangerously close), > maybe it would be better to make it a little later. > > Plane tickets seem to be somewhat cheaper in April compared to January; > I checked expedia.co.uk for tickets from Paris all the way to Curitiba > and April looks at least 10% cheaper. > > Speaking with some friends from the local free software scene, they > suggested that we might do it close to FLISOL > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLISOL) so we could take the opportunity > and maybe have you as speakers (if desired), or attendees. FLISOL > usually happens at the 4th Saturday of April, and the idea would be to > have the sprint in the preceeding week. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Please let me know what you think of the above points, even if it is > just to say "+1". > > -- > Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org> >
