Re: LilyPond meeting in Waltrop, Germany, 2013-08-16 to 2013-08-20

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Well, after several announcements, I now have about four participants
> for this year's meeting secured.  While that's about the amount who
> bothered registering timely last year, it means that I am not able to
> plan suitably ahead.

Well, we are now six (though at most five at a time).  I've thought
briefly about postponing the meeting, but then it is unclear that there
is actually significantly more interest this year, the date has been
announced a long time ago already, a few people actually prepared for
it, and it makes good sense to make use of camping weather.

And actually, we can still get quite a bit done and discussed as there
are a few shared interests and heavy hitters.  But I need to rein in the
dates.

Here are what I have so far:

Jan Niewenhuizen: reports from the Liedboek project, bringing samples,
and I'll likely milk him for getting some internals documented and some
GUB stuff.  Arrives either Thursday evening or Friday noon and leaves
Sunday evening.  Pitches a tent on our ground.

Han-Wen Nienhuys: participation unclear, has a concert on Sunday
evening, can likely come Monday at the earliest.

Thomas Morley/Harm: still on vacation (so no early feedback), will bring
his own tent, will come, but I don't know when.

Janek: announced coming, but I don't know when.

Jan Rosseel from the Scora project (check it out) can attend from Sunday
morning to Monday afternoon (halfway).  Can bring an LCD projector.
Given the low total number of participants, we can probably get along
without renting one on the other days.

Patrick Schmidt (Philomelos project) will arrive by bike and bring his
own tent.  Don't know the exact dates.  I think it would make sense if
he planned to be here overlapping with Jan Rosseel as they have related
interests/projects.

Jan Rosseel enquired about whether there was a quorum for the event
happening because he wanted to know whether to book a hotel: I think
with the rather high-profile guests, we'll find stuff to work on anyway
and there is actually quite a bit of overlap in
interests/projects/abilities.  While I can't vouch for a separate room
for everybody, there is certainly quite more room in the house per guest
than the last time round particularly given the high number of campers,
so we'll probably be able to have everybody in the house (I can't vouch
that the work on the plumbing will be finished, though, but I certainly
hope so).

The travel details again, ask if you have questions:

> Reports about the last meeting can be found at
> <URL:http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28>.  Information
> about travel and place (please don't get confused by last year's dates!)
> is still at <URL:http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop>,
> in a nutshell: Im Knäppen 63 in 45731 Waltrop, next useful bus station
> "Waltrop Elmenhorst", next useful subway "Brambauer Verkehrshof", next
> large train station "Dortmund Hbf", next large airport Düsseldorf (there
> is some Ryanair airport called "Düsseldorf Weeze" which is actually
> quite far from Düsseldorf).
>
> Of course, the Spotted Flycatchers are nesting in different places, last
> year's foal "Socke" is by now a yearling, OpenStreetMap still has no
> clue about our address (but Google Maps does, and Bing Maps too, but the
> final yards of the approach have to be from the Southeast since the
> bridge to the Northwest has fallen prey to fire decades ago without
> telling Bing).
>
> The date this time around will be August 2013, Friday 16th to Tuesday
> 20th, with the possibility to arrive Thursday 15th late in the day for
> people who'd otherwise miss stuff early Friday.
>
> The proposed date coincides with the "Dattelner Kanalfest"
> <URL:http://www.kanalfest.de/> which is the big competition (next town)
> of the "Waltroper Parkfest" we had running parallel to the conference
> last year.  It still provides a reasonably close festival and
> entertainment for potentially not-just-LilyPond interested attendants or
> accompaniment, though with more focus on music and less on small arts
> like jugglers and stuff.
>
> But since it is next town, it will not suck dry external accommodation
> in Waltrop like the Parkfest did last year.  So it should be easier for
> people preferring to stay at some hotel or similar to find something not
> too far away.  Camping on the ground and sleep-ins are of course
> possible like last year and I expect most participants to make use of
> that.
>
> As mentioned above, most travellers will aim for Dortmund (through bus
> or train) though some international travellers will likely have
> Düsseldorf as their first destination in Germany.
>
> Hope to _really_ hear from you soon.
>
> All the best!

-- 
David Kastrup