On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 07:18:43AM +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 23:29 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 19:42 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Combining LGM with a hackfest in Boston sounds really good.
This sounds very interesting, although I quite fancy a trip home (to London or wherever) if LGM will be in London.
Not sure how this complicates things. Maybe I can clone myself ;-)
Martin,
Next year's LGM is in Toronto... so a a hackfest in Boston just after would mean those attending both from outside of North America would be making one long distance trip. The 2016 LGM is in London.
I think this is a great idea, to align the two events. I bet it would get better attendance as well.
If we broaden the definition of the hackfest to include cairo and skia, I should have no problem getting my employer to cover my own travel costs for both as work-related.
Martin, could you draft some rough thoughts (in wiki maybe?) about what the hackfest would look like, to expand in a bit more detail on your original proposal? I.e. where might we do it (and how much that'd cost), how many people to plan for, how many days, range of costs for hotels in the area, and any other associated costs we'd want to plan for?
Also, would we leave the hacking time unstructured, or would we perhaps include training sessions at the start or debrief talks at the end or somesuch?
Bryce