Re: Promo sprint planning 2.0 - Southampton?

On Monday 07 February 2011 17:01:00 Agustín Benito Bethencourt (Toscalix) 
wrote:
> 13-15 May would allow me to attend to LinuxTag and the promo sprint.
> Definetly it is a good option for me.

It is a possibility, could save some travel money for some people. My initial 
reaction is to be a little against having the sprint in Berlin as we'll have 
the desktop summit there later in the year. However, with LinuxTag it could 
make sense

> If we close the date soon enough, I can even give a talk related with KDE
> at linuxtag :-) In fact...we all can, right?

Alas, some of us might not have time for both :-(

Related to the sprint, I have an offer - in principle - for hosting in 
Southampton, UK [1] with a room, wifi and possibly some free food (maybe some 
free lunches). There would also likely be an opportunity/requirement to take 
part in an event that would involve presenting KDE to computer science 
students, which could be a good recruitment opportunity :-) I'm going to go 
and see the venue on Wednesday and talk to the hosts and then I should be able 
to provide some more info.

Southampton has an airport (IATA:SOU) [2] with links to Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, 
Paris-CDG and a few others is on trains from London Gatwick (LGW) and indirect 
(London Underground, then direct train) from London Heathrow (LHR). It's also 
a short train journey from Portsmouth ferry port [3] (various ports in 
northern France). Gatwick and Heathrow are about 1-2 hours away, depending on 
trains, coaches. time of day etc. Bournemouth (BOH) airport has links to 
Spain, Portugal and Italy and is about 1 hour from Southampton by train.

It would be good to get some reaction before I look at the venue on Wednesday 
of whether you think Southampton could work for you.

Cheers,
Stu

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton
[2] http://www.southamptonairport.com/
[3] http://www.portsmouth-port.co.uk/
[4] http://www.bournemouthairport.com/


> > > > 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.
> > 
> > Yep, I'd agree with that. I can make some enquiries for the UK
> > 
> > > > 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:
> > Cool, thanks.
> > 
> > Stu
> > 
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