I can ask if Portland state will do something similar. I'ts over the columbus day weekend then?
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Germán Póo-Caamaño <g...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 11:21 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Stormy Peters <stormy.pet...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > > > In addition to GNOME folks willing to host (yeah, Sri!) there is also a > > > large, active open source community in Portland so we might draw new > people > > > or people that haven't been able to travel to Europe or Boston. > > > > > > > > This is true. Portland has a very large presence of many open source > based > > start ups as well as established companies like Intel and IBM who have > open > > source teams. Intel for instance has all their Xorg hackers here. We > have > > some Red Hatters, people who work on filesystems, and many kernel folks. > > > > So you'll have a large community to interact with. I'm well known in the > > Portland open source community as I manage our "beerings". In fact it > was > > from the beerings that Linux Plumbers Conference was born. > > > > I also have access to an events coordinator as well as my old plumbers > team > > to ask for advice. I dont know mucha bout the logistics - how many > people > > generally come? > > Boston Summit is between hackfest and unconference. It is about 35-50 > people. > > One of the benefits of Boston is that MIT traditionally had lent the > venue for free during Columbus Day. > > You can get an idea from the old wiki pages: > > https://live.gnome.org/Boston2012 > https://live.gnome.org/Boston2012/Participants > https://live.gnome.org/Montreal2011/Participants > https://live.gnome.org/Boston2010/Participants > > -- > Germán Poo-Caamaño > http://calcifer.org/ >
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