Re: European lilypond meetings

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm floating two possibilities for face-to-face lilypond meetings
> in the next few months.
>
> UK: I'll be in the Birmingham area on 26 June.  Depending on
>   interest and availability, there could be a short meeting that
>   day, or a longer meeting including a stay at a B&B or something
>   like that.  If there was serious interest in a longer meeting of
>   lilypond people in the UK, we could meet somewhere else easily
>   accessible by train (I assume that Birmingham has good links)...
>   Northampton, Manchester...?
>
>   Alternately, we could pick a different day and meet at a central
>   rail place (Crewe would be ideal for me).  Or if anybody wanted
>   to visit Glasgow, I could supply a computer lab in addition to
>   normal tourist stuff.
>
> GERMANY: David has offered accommodations for a few people in
>   July, although Werner was busy during that period.  If there's
>   going to be a meeting, it would be nice if there were as many
>   people as possible, so maybe this could happen during August?
>   I don't know the exact dates that people were thinking, but if
>   it's going to happen then we should start seriously planning it
>   soon so that people can look into plane and train tickets.

Actually, it is on my "TODO: right now!" list to further organize this.
The July date was proposed to coincide with the GNU hacker's meeting in
Düsseldorf (July 20th to 22nd) <URL:http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2012/ddorf/>
where Andy Wingo and Ludovic Courtès from the Guile team will be
present.

If anybody plans attending here, I could offer accommodation around that
date.  But for a large-scale LilyPond developer meeting, the double-date
would be inefficient.

We have sufficient area to let as many people plant tents here as
required, and accommodating a dozen folks with sleeping bags in the
house would also work, but the number of available beds is limited.  The
first week of school holidays is off-limits (there will be a sort of
summer camp of horse-loving pupils then), but that's already in the week
ending July 15th.

Travel by train or bus should focus on Dortmund, about 9 miles from here
and the next large city.  I'll prepare a list of attractions (Midi and
recording equipment is available, as are several accordions primarily of
the button variety) and of workshops.  Obvious candidates are work on
Guilev2 migration, discussion work, work on a markup data type, courses
on "how to deal with shift/reduce and reduce/reduce conflicts after
parser changes" and others.  A useful duration would be about 5 days.
But we should really find a suitable date soonish.  I don't have any
vacation plans for the summer myself.

-- 
David Kastrup