I know I haven't chimed in yet - As for the mentor summit itself I wouldn't mind attending, but if there are others who would like to go I won't begrudge them attending. That also said I live in the Bay area, and while I think I'll change apartments at some point, if people want to crash at my place I've got an air mattress and futon people are more than welcome to occupy. - John On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 07:26 +0200, Christian Couder wrote: > Le samedi 23 août 2008, Shawn O. Pearce a écrit : > > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > > > >> If Git-together happens outside of that, I could join. > > > > > > > > I think it would be after that. I doubt we could put it together > > > > with <30 days of notice. Most people who would want to attend need > > > > to book travel arrangements. While its possible with 30 days notice > > > > you can typically get better rates if you have more lead time. > > > > > > Ah, I somehow got a wrong impression about this event from the initial > > > posting, and certainly didn't imagine you were planning a > > > mini-conference like one, but a much more informal and smaller "while > > > some of us are in the west coast during/near GSoC mentor thing, how > > > about getting together for fun" kind of settings. > > > > Well, we could do that too. But I think we'd want to maybe do that > > closer to Mountain View, where the actual summit is taking place, > > to cut down on the amount of travelling that the out-of-town folks > > have to do. > > > > E.g. you could come up this year, and we'll have maybe 3 or 4 of > > our mentors here for the summit. We could even do a mini-one day > > thing at the Google campus. I could probably get Google to give us a > > small conference room or tech talk room for half a day or something. > > I think it needs to be at least 2 days long for people coming from Europe or > farther, otherwise it might not be worth it for them to come. Or it needs > to happen during, after or before another interesting conference. > > The Google Mentor Summit is in Mountain View: > > - October 25(Sat)-26(Sun) > (http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_timeline) > > Maybe we can have the GitTogether also in Montain View just after that: > > - October 27(Mon)-28(Tue) > > so that the 3 mentors that come to the mentor summit just have to stay to 2 > more days there. > > > I don't really know what our community is interested in doing. > > So I'm just tossing out ideas and seeing what sticks. If we don't > > do anything, that's fine too. > > Or maybe we can just plan something for next year. > > Thanks, > Christian. > > -- > 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
