Haha, we're so spread out in the US. It looks like my wife and I are going to have to plan a trip to Europe without the kids. I'v always wanted to see Germany. :P
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Eduard Gotwig <got...@ubuntu.com> wrote: If we would do it in Frankfurt, I am sure we can get sponsors on board for this. 2012/10/2 David Nielsen <gnomeu...@gmail.com> Okay so far you are truly multinational. It looks like Europe is the best place for it, maybe Frankfurt is a good choice. Experience tells me that getting a person from the US to Europe is roughly 1800$, internal travel in the EU is a bit cheaper and can probably be had at a medium cost of 1000$ per person. Which means currently just around 10.000$ in travel costs alone, board is typically roughly the same so I'll need to find at least 20.000$ in sponsorships to be on the safe side. This is given that I can find a venue sponsor as renting a place is expensive. Luckily Elementary uses a lot of technology backed by businesses, e.g. Yorba, Codethink, Fluendo, Canonical and such, plus I might be able to squeeze a bit out of GNOME and maybe MonkeySquare can pitch in. It should at least get us a bit of the way there but it is still a high number to hit, we may have success using something like ChipIn to gather some funds as well. Regardless that is a lot of money which will take some time to gather. One option that has worked well in the past has been putting events right after FOSDEM since a lot of developers go there anyways and occasionally employers can be convinced to pay for the ticket. I gather you are all students or otherwise unable to take advantage of such an option. So a bit of a task ahead it seems. On the plus side this is going to a challenge which is always a good thing. Sent from my iPad Den 02/10/2012 kl. 11.01 skrev Dane Henson <d...@elementaryos.org>: If nobody is opposed to it, I created a collaborative google map and set it so that anyone can edit it: http://goo.gl/maps/1flld I understand that this kind of thing can be controversial, but if you are concerned about giving away your location, just drop a placemark on the nearest major city. At least that way we can get a rough idea of the distribution of elementary devs. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefri...@gmail.com> wrote: We have to make a shared Google DOC and write here our location... Sent from iPhone 5 Il giorno 02/ott/2012, alle ore 08:06, Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org> ha scritto: Hey David, That sounds like an awesome idea! I'm CC'ing the dev mailing list so we can see how many devs we have available and able to attend such a hackfest. As far as where we're located, we're quite distributed across the USA and Europe haha. I wonder if there's a way to get a map of where everyone is? On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, David Nielsen <gnomeu...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Dan, I forgot your email and my OS X machine is reinstalling to prepare for my first Luna install so I am using Launchpads contact form really quickly. Regardless, I would like to contribute to Elementary but I am not much of a programmer, I do however arrange a mean Hackfest. I have previously pulled off two annual GNOME and Mono hackfests and since I have taken a position on the MonkeySquare board I am also doing a Hackfest on day 3 of our annual MonkeySpace conference. I have seen how effective such events have been for other groups and I think the perfect way to celebrate Luna's release will be holding a 5-7 day event to plan and hack on Luna+1 in person. I have some ideas for collecting funds for this venture and some good contacts so you can leave that to me, however if this has any interest I would like to know how many core developers you have and where you are geographically so to plan and budget this thing. Kind regards, David Nielsen -- This message was sent from Launchpad by David Nielsen (https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen) using the "Contact this user" link on your profile page (https://launchpad.net/~danrabbit). For more information see https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople -- Best Regards, Daniel Foré elementaryos.org -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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