On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 07:26 -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
Hello Board,
TL;DR first: Does the board want to fund any additional delegates travel & room expenses for the reunion if we have anyone chosen by the lottery?
First, let me say that having attended the last two GSoC mentor summits that they are worth attending for anyone who is going to be administering or mentoring in future years. I am also interested in attending this year as it might allow me to attend TPAC, the yearly gathering of all W3C working groups including the SVG and CSS working groups which is the week after in Santa Clara.
But if I weigh the value to Inkscape of sending developers to the GSoC mentor summit or spending the money to send them to LGM or a hackfest, the latter clearly win out. The GSoC summit is a whirlwind of activity, you are in, attend sessions with other open source projects (many you will never have heard of), eat lots of food, and then are gone. There is no real time for anything else. The LGM is a more leisurely meeting with plenty of time for discussions with other Inkscapers and with others working on graphics software as well as a bit of hacking. A hackfest would even be better. Combining LGM with a hackfest in Boston sounds really good.
Tav
PS. How much is in our kitty?