Re: Summer Hackfest - Start The Discussion

We could also host the hackfest here in the Detroit area. Anyone else 
care to throw their 2-cents down on this idea? It's almost May ... we're 
running out of time!

Alex
DisklessWorkstations.com

Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> 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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