Re: Promo sprint planning 2.0

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Claudia Rauch <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

Oh...clearly I'm not either as I had no idea :)  Makes sense though.  Let's
just aim for these other two dates below and if it happens that we can't
find a venue or there's some other problem we can look at trying other
dates.


>
> > 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:
>

Great, thanks!


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