Ugh, how embarrassing -- I fat-fingered the wrong key and re-sent this email (twice) to the list. Sorry about that. On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 12:07:05PM -0800, Jeff King wrote: > Following up on my earlier announcement, I have some more details for > the Contributor Summit at Git Merge this year: > > When: Thursday, March 5th. 10am-5pm. > Where: Downtown Loft, 1054 S Olive St, Los Angeles, CA 90015 > What: Round-table discussion about Git > Who: All contributors to Git or related projects in the Git ecosystem > are invited; if you're not sure if you qualify, please ask! > > Note that this is the day _after_ the main Git Merge conference, unlike > previous years. The main conference schedule and agenda is up at: > > https://git-merge.com > > To attend, you'll need to register online; please email me off-list for > instructions and a special code. It's bundled with your main conference > registration, so please DO NOT register for the main conference until > you get the code. As with previous years, you'll have the option of > attending for free, or paying the $125 conference fee (all of which goes > to Software Freedom Conservancy). > > If you'd like to come but need financial assistance with travel costs, > please reach out as soon as possible to the Git PLC at git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. > We'd like to make any funding decisions soon so that people have time to > make travel arrangements. So let's try to have all requests in by next > Monday, January 21st. > > When picking a hotel, note that the contributor summit is not at the > same venue as the main conference (but it's nearby). There are some > hotels with special pricing listed on the conference page at > https://git-merge.com/#experience. > > We're still working out details of the A/V setup, but the plan is to > have a way for people to join remotely. I'll send details when I have > them. > > The afternoon schedule for the main conference is a bit different this > year: we'll have some round-table "Birds of Feather" discussions to get > attendees talking to each other. Think about topics you'd like to > discuss, and also whether you'd like to facilitate a discussion. The > online registration will ask about both. If you're interested, we'll > provide more information and some documentation in advance about how it > will work. > > There's also a tentative "Stump the Experts" panel as one of the > sessions. There are still logistics to be worked out (e.g., how far in > advance questions will come), but the general idea is to take attendee > questions about some of the more confusing parts of Git. If you're > interested in being on the panel, let me know. > > Sooner is better to make our planning easier, so please let me know if > you're interested by January 31st. > > I hope to see everybody there! > > -Peff Thanks, Taylor
