OctConf?

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-May-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| I think we could benefit a lot from some face-to-face interaction,
| have some dedicated coding sprints and talk in general about the
| direction Octave should be taking. I therefore propose we have an
| Octave conference. The last one was in 2006 and one of its major
| achievements was implementation of sparse matrices:
| 
|      http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/meetings/2006/
| 
| I notice that back then there was talk of building a GUI for Octave,
| and this goal is still just as relevant today, except nowadays we
| actually have good work in that direction.

I'm also in favor of having another meeting and possibly somewhat more
regular meetings in the future.  I also think that face to face
interaction can make a big difference.

| Naturally of course the first question is where. I think most
| developers and users are concentrated in the US and western Europe. If
| there is any traction for this idea, I can offer my native Mexico City
| as a location, with probable support from UNAM, our national
| university, for a venue. Lodging would be quite cheap here, but there
| is of course the problem that it's far from almost everyone.
| 
| What do you guys think? Can we make this happen, in Mexico City or elsewhere?

No matter where we have the meeting, we will be far away from
someone.  Where would be the most convenient location if we look at
who the major contributors are now, and those who are most likely to
attend?

jwe