Re: FOSDEM Arrangements

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 12.12.2010 um 23:05 schrieb Quentin Mathé:

> Le 12 déc. 2010 à 16:26, David Chisnall a écrit :
>
> > On 12 Dec 2010, at 14:59, Niels Grewe wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 05:17:08PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote:
> > > > Getting in on Friday morning would require me to leave in the  
> > > > middle of the night, so I probably won't do that.  I could  
> > > > probably get there around 4pm, so time for a bit of hacking, an  
> > > > early dinner, and then a lot of beer.
> > > >
> > > > They pay for three nights of hotel, so I might stay Sunday night  
> > > > and head back on Monday, if other people are going to be hanging  
> > > > around on Sunday evening.  I think I have to go to the speakers'  
> > > > dinner on Saturday night, so I can't join in a GNUstep meal  
> > > > (unless you all want to come to the dinner?), but I could meet  
> > > > people for hacking / more beer afterwards.
> > >
> > > I will be arriving on Friday afternoon and a little gettogether  
> > > before
> > > the beer event would be nice (I had a hard time finding anybody last
> > > time…) Since there is no chance that I can get back to where I  
> > > live on
> > > Sunday, I'd probably be leaving Monday morning.
> >
> > I think I'll try to do the same.  Arrive late afternoon on Friday,  
> > leave Monday morning.
>
> I'll arrive on Fridary afternoon and leave Monday too.

Maybe I can extend my stay 'till monday but that's up to my boss'  
decision to let me have one more day vacation then.

> > How long I spend at the beer event will largely depend on whether  
> > I have to give a talk on Saturday morning...
>
> I'm tempted by a shorter beer event. We could have our own beer  
> event possibly too. I wouldn't mind to go to a quieter or less  
> crowded place.

I would prefer that too. To me there isn't much point in meeting in a  
place where you can't listen to your own word and need a quarter of  
an hour to get some new beer.

> > > BTW: What did become of the plan to get a discounted group  
> > > booking at a
> > > hotel?
> >
> >
> > It would be a good idea.  I think I have to go to whichever hotel  
> > the organisers put me in, so hopefully I can find out what that  
> > is, and maybe try to find one nearby for everyone else.  If we can  
> > get a list of people who are definitely going, then we can try  
> > contacting some hotels and see if they want to offer a discount.
>
> I added myself to the FOSDEM page on the wiki.

Easy, isn't it ;-)

If you don't have an account yet just register here:

<http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin>

and send a mail asking for wiki edit rights to webmasters [AT]  
gnustep.org

> For the talks, I submitted two proposals: Étoilé Progresses and  
> EtoileUI

great!

> Otherwise I'd be interested to hear talks about:
> - CoreBase and CoreGraphics/Opal in GNUstep
> - GNUstep Progresses and Roadmap
> - DBusKit
> - EtoileText (… I'm especially curious about the possibility to  
> leverage OMeta to write the tree transform rules)
> - LanguageKit Progresses

I've added those wishes to <http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/ 
FOSDEM_2011#Wishlist_for_talks.2Fdiscussions.2Fsessions>

> Cheers,
> Quentin.

cheers,

        Lars