On Wednesday, December 05, 2012 18:35:59 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Inge Wallin <i...@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> > Hi people,
> >
> > It's time to have another sprint!
> >
> > I have been in contact with the Linux hotel. They say that all weekends
> > in jan / feb are available except the 2-3rd of February. I have added a
> > few in march as well as we are not that far from January but beware that
> > these may not be available. (Actually we could be unlucky and have the
> > one we want booked by somebody else the day before we do it but such is
> > life...).
> >
> > I have created a doodle: http://doodle.com/dwznt2uk5de6zgn6
> >
> > Note that the dates are all saturdays. They represent the weekend from
> > Friday
> > until Sunday. The format will be as usual: We arrive friday, start with
> > some
> > discussions and beers and the real sprint starts on saturday and lasts
> > until
> > sunday launch or so. The rest of sunday is travel home time.
> >
> > So please add your name to the doodle so that we can book the Linux hotel
> > as
> > soon as possible.
>
> Recalling what happened to the last planned Calligra Sprint as part of the
> Randa meetings, our expenses were a lot because of lots of travel to
> Europe. This was mostly because of the large number of Indian contributors
> to Calligra. I remember someone throwing an idea (was during Akademy most
> probably) that in such cases where travel funding is an issue, we can have
> the sprint in Germany and India at the same time and connect using video
> conferencing. While it certainly won't be as fun as a face to face meet,
> its still better than nothing.
>
> What do you guys think?
I think this is an excellent idea!
But I have little chance of helping to organize that so I guess it's up to
somebody actually within India to do it.
-Inge
PS. I CC'ed claudia as well since she or the board would have to ack this.
> > I will also create a sprint page on the KDE sprints site so that we can
> > start
> > looking at the budget. I have also talked with the board and they are ok
> > with
> > it. We just have to give them a figure.
> >
> > -Inge
> >
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> Cheers,
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