Re: Promo sprint planning 2.0
Claudia Rauch <[email protected]>
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On 3 February 2011 14:39, Justin Kirby <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Javier Llorente <[email protected]> wrote: >> El Martes, 25 de Enero de 2011 03:58:51 Justin Kirby escribió: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > So it seems like things quieted down a bit so I'm going to assume that >> > by >> > now most anyone interested in coming has spoken up already. Looking at >> > http://community.kde.org/Promo/Scratchpad/Sprint2011 it seems like April >> > is >> > probably a good month. Ironically, Camp KDE is April 4-6 this year (in >> > San >> > Francisco) and is being co-hosted with the Linux Collaboration Summit ( >> > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit). Maybe >> > this >> > is too much at once, but it seems like if some people might already be >> > going to those it might make sense to consider April 1-3 for the promo >> > sprint date. Any thoughts on that? >> >> After re-reading the data in the wiki a few times, I have come to the >> following conclusion: >> >> The best dates are: >> >> 22-27 March >> 10-14 April >> 18-21 April (19 April → LinuxExpo in Prague) >> 9-15 May (11-14 May → LinuxTag in Berlin) >> 23-29 May >> 6-12 June >> >> and the best location would be somewhere in Europe. > > I'm not sure that having the sprint while a major conference is going on is > a good idea. It would likely lessen the number of potential attendees since > promo people are needed at these events to help staff booths (and we can't > get any work done if we're all staffing booths at a conference). Also, I > think sprints are usually only for a long weekend (I think) so that most > people could make it without taking off a lot of time from work/school/etc. > For the last promo sprint it seemed like everyone tried to get in as early > as possible on Friday and left late Sunday evening or Monday morning as > their schedules permitted. So using your list but avoiding the conferences, > moving the dates to the weekends, and narrowing it down a bit further to > make it more manageable...how about we use these 3? > 22-24 April That's the Easter weekend, and while I'm not religious this is a popular travel weekend, so prices for flights and hotels will be much more expensive. > 6-8 May > 13-15 May > For those of you that have venue contacts, can you inquire to them about > whether we could invade their space on these weekends and let us know if > someone accepts? I think that Germany, Spain or the UK would all make > convenient hosts at this point given the current list of attendees. Once we > know what our options are we can make our final decision on which > date/location works best. > -Justin I will look into the venue situation next week when I'm back from FOSDEM: -- Claudia Rauch Business Manager KDE e.V. Linienstr. 141 10115 Berlin Germany Phone: +49 (0) 30 2023 7305 0 Fax: +49 (0) 30 2023 7305 9 Mobile: +49 178 522 3086 KDE e.V. is a German Verein registered at the Amtsgericht Tübingen (VR1301). Its president is Cornelius Schumacher. For more information please see http://ev.kde.org, and http://kde.org/ _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.