Re: aKademy announced

Le jeudi 8 Avril 2004 13:12, Kurt Pfeifle a écrit :
> I was very silent on this list recently because I am heavily involved
> in organizing aKademy.

It explains...

> Just someone of you take the initiative. Discuss your plans here
> or on IRC, and tell me what you need ("one room with internet
> connectivity for Wednesday afternoon 13:00 -- 16:00 h or whatever...)

Before discussing this we definitely need to know who will come... If there's 
not enough people we won't need a lot of ressources.

> Please discuss also how you will respond to the two Calls for
> Papers (1 for the Developers' and Contributors' Conference, weekend
> 21st/22nd -- 1 for the User and Administrator Conference, weekend
> 28th/29th...). CfPs will be out soon....

I was waiting for those call for papers! ;-)
As soon as something is out, I'm going to see what can be done.

> I hope to meet many of you there!

I really hope to meet you there too!

> > I really don't know yet if I'll be able to come... the travel from france
> > + accomodations + food seem to be costly...
>
> Accomodation with breakfeast will be ~ 20.- EURO per night. Maybe we
> will get one or more "sponored dinners" in the evenings.

Argh! But I lunch too! =)
Ok 20€ per night is feasible... I'm going to investigate for the travel 
prices...

> It is an extremely good idea for KDE contributors from the different
> countries and sub-projects to seek sponsors for their travel and
> other costs locally. I am sure there are good chances to succeed if
> you put some effort into it. Do you know a company which is using KDE?

Unfortunately not...

> Do you know a company which is sympathetic to KDE or Free Software in
> general?

Here I have only three company sympathetic to Free Software (nothing KDE 
related), and I see only one that would be able to sponsor me... But, they 
don't earn a lot of money... I'll see one of their engineers soon, I'll ask 
him his impressions directly...

> Maybe your own employer would sponsor you to go their?

If it is related to a paper maybe... But I don't know if I can do something in 
their domain yet.
Mornfall : Do you think it would be appropriate to do a paper on the AMAS 
present in kapture? ;-)

> Do you  
> think that your employing company would find it useful to send you to
> one of the tutorials (preliminary program will be out soon)?

Since my current "employer" is a university AI lab... they won't be interested 
by any tutorial there... except if semantic web, ontologies or multi-agent 
systems are involved...

> If you don't come, everybody will be telling you afterwards how
> great it was  ;-)

Yes... I heard this for Kastle already! =)

Regards.
-- 
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Ne font reculer l'ignorance."