Re: Summer Hackfest - Start The Discussion

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 03:13:55PM -0400, DisklessWorkstations.com wrote:
> There's been lots of talk over the past few months regarding an LTSP
> hackfest at some point this summer. I'd certainly like to do what I can to
> make it happen, and I will start with this e-mail. 

thanks for getting it started!
 
> Are you interested? (if yes proceed to next question)

absolutely.
 
> What timeframe might fit with your schedule?

timewise, i'm pretty available. i won't be available july 15th-31st (debian
conference), but might be able to catch something immediately before or after
that.

my resources are limited, so proximity would be a factor in weather i'd be able
to attend.

> Can you host it? (if so, tell us where)

very likely could get space at freegeek (portland, oregon, usa).  could
reasonably handle 10-20 people for a 3-5+ day event (sundays & mondays are
best):

  http://freegeek.org

though we already had a hackfest at freegeek in 2008, so i wouldn't want to
steal the opportunity from someone else to host somewhere else.

> In your opinion, should the hackfest be for developers, or should it be
> opened to all via ltsp-discuss mailing list?

that's a bit of a difficult question, but if it's less than a week long, i
think i'd want to keep it fairly small. largely folks working on documentation,
code, features, ltsp distro maintenance, large deployments, or some other
specific thing to contribute to LTSP.

so, i guess i'd be inclined to have it largely be developers and other
specifically invited people rather than a widely publicized event.

i *do* think that a more widely publicized event would be really great in
addition to a smaller hackfest, but it would require a lot more organizing to
make it sucessful (and i'm not personally up for the task).

live well,
  vagrant

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