Re: FOSDEM 2008

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

Gianluca wrote:

| let's talk about FOSDEM: guys guys guys!  
| We need an apartment! Anyone has any clue how to start searching for  
| it? You don't really want me to have something _PRACTICAL_ to  
| organize, do you? :)

Gianluca.  No.  We most probably wouldn't want you to organize this.  :-P


On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:58:53AM +0100, I wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 07:50:52PM +0000, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 07 Nov 2007 20:20:54 +0100, a écrit :
> > > Already some weeks ago I installed a
> > > coordination page into the wiki:
> > > <http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/community/meetings/fosdem_2008/>.  Please
> > > add yourself.
> 
> ... or tell someone else with a wiki account to add you.

Bas wrote:

| I'll be arriving on Friday and leaving on Monday.  I think I said
| Sunday before.  Could you please change that for me on the web page?
| 
| I'm coming with my girlfriend, and we want to stay with the rest of you
| people.

I changed all that on the page, and also added some other details.  (See
the attached patch.)

| Are we going to a youth hostel again?  Should we make
| reservations?

> > > If we want to stay in an appartment this year, instead of again staying
> > > in a youth hostel, we'd need someone to organize that.
> > 
> > No news about this?
> 
> Not from my side, no.  But as long as we don't even know who'll be
> attending FOSDEM, we can't make any decision whether to rent an
> appartement or not, in my opinion.

I guess that it's too late for renting an appartment nevertheless.  I'd
be fine with staying in the youth hostel again, where we've been for the
last two years.

Samuel, would you be fine with giving them a phone call again?


Regards,
 Thomas

-- 

commit cc25c68d3d738babe56dc703d802f0108bb7d748
Author: Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>
Date:   Thu Feb 7 01:44:35 2008 +0100

    community/meetings/fosdem_2008: Update.

diff --git a/community/meetings/fosdem_2008.mdwn 
b/community/meetings/fosdem_2008.mdwn
index 3e1bb51..fdc66d9 100644
--- a/community/meetings/fosdem_2008.mdwn
+++ b/community/meetings/fosdem_2008.mdwn
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Bruxelles.
 "Andrew Resch","?","?","?","?"
 "Ben Asselstine","?","?","?","?"
 "[[Barry_de_Freese|bddebian]]","?","?","?","?"
-"Bas Wijnen","plans to go","probably on Friday","probably on Sunday","yes"
+"Bas Wijnen and girlfriend","yes","Friday","Monday","yes (two)"
 "Christian Dietrich","no","n/a","n/a","n/a"
 "Christopher Bodenstein","?","?","?","?"
 "Colin Leitner","no","n/a","n/a","n/a"
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ Bruxelles.
 "Mark Kettenis","?","?","?","?"
 "Matthieu Lemerre","?","?","?","?"
 "Manuel Menal","?","?","?","?"
-"[[Michael_Banck|MichaelBanck]]","?","?","?","?"
-"Neal Walfield","plans to go","?","?","?"
+"[[Michael_Banck|MichaelBanck]]","plans to go","probably Friday","late Sunday 
or early Monday","yes"
+"Neal Walfield","plans to go","?","?","yes"
 "Nicolas Centa","?","?","?","?"
 "Ognyan Kulev","?","?","?","?"
 "Olaf Buddenhagen","plans to go","?","?","yes"
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Bruxelles.
 "[[Soeren_Schulze|SoerenSchulze]]","plans to go","Friday late","Sunday","yes"
 "[[Stefan_Siegl|stesie]]","no","n/a","n/a","n/a"
 "Thomas Bushnell","?","?","?","?"
-"[[Thomas_Schwinge|tschwinge]]","plans to go","?","?","?"
+"[[Thomas_Schwinge|tschwinge]]","plans to go","probably Friday (Thursday might 
also be possible)","Sunday or Monday","yes"
 "Tim Retout","plans to go","?","?","no"
 "Tom Bachmann","?","?","?","?"
 "[[Vikram_Vincent|vincentvikram]]","?","?","?","?"
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ We need someone to get the keys before
 20:00. Reservations last until 16:00, so either he gets the keys before 16:00,
 or we just need to call for confirming the reservation
 
+[[I|tschwinge]] seem to remember something that in 2007 the Madame at the
+reception wasn't really happy with us arriving later than 16:00 even with
+having had confirmed that via a phone call.
 
 
 ## Sleep Well Youth Hostel
@@ -146,6 +149,7 @@ We don't have a Developers Room at FOSDEM.
 
 There is again a pre-FOSDEM meeting on Friday night, see 
<http://fosdem.org/2008/beerevent>.
 
+Both Neal and Bas would be happy to show their recent kernel works.
 
 
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