Re: GNUStep 20th anniversary - GNUstep summit

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,

Am 20.05.2015 um 14:05 schrieb Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net>:

Thank you, everyone, for the updates.

Two top contenders are now deeply in October and are the weekends of 16/17 and 23/24, with only Alex Sangiuliano unable to attend.

I am planning for the event to happen in Dublin on October 23/24 weekend.

looks fine from current planning point of view.

What my main concern is that we only have around 8 participants. I would like to see a much bigger meeting to convince myself to invest time and money…

Probably that will change as soon as an official announcement is out and participant’s registration opens.

BR,

Nikolaus

- If you have any objection, please let me know now.

- If you can help with organization (e.g. let me know what you expect from an event like this), please also let me know, as this is my first time setting something like this up.

List of things I'm thinking of:

- Let me know if you'd like to arrive early and go sightseeing around Dublin. I'll be happy to show around even one early bird visitor. Lacking further information, I'm planning just what goes on during weekend.

- Lacking input, I'll mainly concern myself with obtaining space for presentations + hacking (later in the email: 'work'), and figuring out the food arrangements during meetings + dinner.

  - This means I probably can't help too much finding hotels or hotel discount, apart from letting you know which hotels are closest

- 'Work' part of the meeting is almost certainly happening in Google offices in Dublin. 

Is there something I missed? Is there something you can help me with? Please let me know.

Thanks

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net> wrote:

Based on the results, these are the most popular dates:

- July 24/25 - sans Stefan Bidigaray and Pirmin Braun

- October 16/17 - sans Scott Christley and Alex Sangiuliano

- October 23/24 - sans Scott Christley and Alex Sangiuliano

People named above, any chance for more flexibility?

Ditto for some other dates; everyone! Please review the poll and see if you can squeeze the meetup into some more dates. If you cannot edit the submission, please just submit a second entry and I'll delete the original one.

I will arbitrarily pick and announce a date among 'top choices' this weekend. (If I don't, please poke me.)

I'll speed this up now as people traveling into Dublin may want to start booking flights and hotels.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Stefan Bidigaray <stefanbidi@gmail.com> wrote:

Whoops, sorry for the delay.  I just added information for myself.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net> wrote:

Over a month later, there are still only four (!) responses to the Doodle survey: Pirmin, Richard, Nikolaus and Scott.

Also, there are only five (!) responses to the preferences survey: Pirmin, Richard, Nikolaus, Riccardo and Gerold. 

Everyone else that's interested, please pick your preferred times on Doodle:
  http://doodle.com/uywurfqvqzekkbtt

Everyone else that's interested, please pick preferred location out the form:

  http://goo.gl/forms/ZMPIM9hB3Z

and view results

  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pSxFtr6bRy8kEorJ5n_uewXgCMI27aqvOTSZ7ZDIa6s/view

Those who already responded and want to change responses and cannot do it by themselves, please notify me.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net> wrote:

There's only three entries so far. Based just on them, the tool suggests -- September and October! :-) 

Please, everyone who's interested in attending, fill out the form with (at the very least) estimates of when you can attend.

In other news, I have a go-ahead regarding the use of a meeting room in Google's Dublin offices for our needs. This also means having a nice video-conferencing unit for meetings over Hangouts. Projecting to the screen is easiest over Hangouts, too, so attendees may want to have a Google account and Chrome (throwing it away/uninstalling it later, as desired). There are/should be some adapters available for projecting, but I've never tried them out myself.

I'll continue planning as if we meet in Dublin. If you have a particularly strong objection, please let me know.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net> wrote:

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@computer.org> wrote:

Am 09.03.2015 um 17:47 schrieb Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net>:

It was in the form, but the bigger problem is how would one phrase such a question?

Well, the question was quite generic...

What about www.doodle.com and just giving all potential dates for the next 6 months?

What a wonderful tool! Yes, the question becomes much simpler with that tool.

http://doodle.com/uywurfqvqzekkbtt

I've picked weekends, and we may expand onto the preceding Friday or following Monday. (Now if only there was a nicer multiselect, that would have been even better.)

Whoever is interested in meeting, please pick the dates you're fine with. I'm currently fine with any weekend, but I may become aware of some commitments later on.

If people feel that their dates differ greatly based on location, we can start more polls. Votes are, of course, not binding.

But it might be limited by the location. Locations large enough to host such an event usually have some time slots they can offer.

If my employer agrees, worry about weekend timeslots probably won't be necessary...

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