Hi Chris, Seattle is a very inconvenient location for most of the people coming from Europe: somewhere in the Bay area would be better and less expensive for us. Luca. On 2 Sep 2014, at 07:21, Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It looks like there will be no Git conference or Git developer meeting > this year. > > Anyway, next year Git will be 10 years old and it would be nice if > something could be organized. > > A few week ago, I was at the LinuxCon North America in Chicago [1]. I > love going to a LinuxCon and giving a presentation there. It was my > 4th LinuxCon (2 in Europe and 2 in North America) and they are always > very well organized. They also often host other open source/free > software conferences like for Mesos [2] or Gstreamer [3]. > > So I wonder if we could officially ask if they could host and help > organize a Git conference next year. > > In fact I already discussed this with a few of the LinuxFoundation > people at the LinuxCon and they looked happy with that. I also talked > with a few Github guys there who were also happy with that. > > Github was a gold sponsor of the LinuxCon as well as Google [1], and > Atlassian was a platinum sponsor of the co-located MesosCon [2]. So it > looks like many companies involved with Git like the LinuxFoundation > and already collaborate with it. > > At the LinuxCon they said that the next LinuxCon North America is > planned for August 2015 in Seattle. Seattle is a not very far away > from were Junio, Shawn and Linus live, and Linus usually comes to the > LinuxCon North America, so I suppose that it would not be a big burden > for them to come if they want to. > > As many Linux kernel developers have been contributing to Git, > especially at the beginning, which was very important for the success > of Git, I think it would be nice if some of them could easily take > part of a Git conference where we would celebrate the 10th anniversary > of Git. > > To sum up it would be a very nice common ground for both companies and > developers, and it would be much easier to organize with the great > help and experience of the LinuxFoundation. > > Best, > Christian. > > > [1] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america > [2] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon > [3] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/2014/index.html > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html