DotGNU Meet-a-thon
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The DotGNU Meet-a-thon is a quarterly event that provides an opportunity
take stock what has been going on in DotGNU for the quarter . It is a 
platform for developers to catch up with each other and to provide an
open platform for new members to ask questions and find out how to join
in. This is an event to talk about all the relevant issues and developments
concerning DotGNU. This is a (36|48) hour (IRC|Jabber) meeting organized
to interact with new people , discuss new ideas and in general, talk shop.

The meet-a-thon is organized as a set of 4 hour long sessions through
a convenient weekend of the quarter. The initial hours are reserved
for the newcomers to DotGNU in general. The various developers will
be present to give casual information about the respective DotGNU 
projects. These sessions are informal and revolve round the non-technical
topics .

After about 3-4 sessions the discussions are directed towards individual
projects as and when the developers come online . The specific schedule 
is left to the conveniences of the developer and his timezones . This is
also not strictly kept on topic and is treated as a sort of Q&A session
for developer user interaction. Some of the key DotGNU members and others
who find it difficult to ignore the excitement attend the whole meet-a-thon.


The Precedent of the meet-a-thon was set last quarter with the first 
DotGNU meet-a-thon on the 16-17 weekend of March. The meet-a-thon was a 
definite success and was well received by the developer community. The
emphasis of that meet-a-thon has been in bringing new developers and
new projects into the DotGNU umbrella. The current meet-a-thon is aimed 
at the user community and the incremental development of the existing 
projects. 

Venue
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The meet-a-thon is to held on the weekend of 29-30 June starting from
1000 UTC 29th to 2200 UTC 30th on (irc.openprojects.net#dotgnu |
jabber.dotgnu.org#dotgnu) . 

The topics of Discussion
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*) DotGNU -- "How do I make the web work for me ?"

*) The Various DotGNU Projects like Portable.Net, SEE, Phpgroupware,
   FrePort , and the other Auth projects...

*) The adoption of Jabber as a middleware and client protocol for
   DotGNU

*) Portable.Net , how well does it work ?

*) Phpgroupware , "Webservices distilled ?" 

*) DotGNU and Industry Involvement

*) Combating .NET in industry standard Server software

*) Ideas like DotGNU Forum , Wikitexi , and DGDE 

*) Porting Native libraries to DotGNU Portable.Net

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