[CC'd -boot and -qa to make them aware of this. Please drop them from the CC unless it's on topic on the respective list] In parallel to the next Debian-wide IRC BSP[1], a real-life hacking meeting will take place in Munich on the weekend of April 17/18th. Targets: ======== The focus of the event is twofold and matches the current requirements for a Sarge release: 1) During the Bug-Squashing Party, as many release critical bugs as possible shall be closed. The BSP coordinator Frank Lichtenheld will be attending the meeting, as well as (probably) Debian QA member Andreas Barth. 2) Work to get the debian-installer closer to being ready for Sarge will be carried out. Currently, the planned focus of the debian-installer work is the PowerPC port, as a lot of hardware is available on-site and the powerpc d-i kernel maintainers Jens Schmalzing and (probably) Sven Luther will attend. Also, getting d-i working on Linux-2.6 is considered to be important and will probably be tackled as well. Attendance: =========== In addition to the local Debian crowd, we invite other Debian people from south germany or northern austria to join us in Munich. So far, Norbert Tretkowski, Frank Lichtenheld and Sven Luther are planning to come. Please let us know if you want to attend the meeting, so we can plan ahead a bit. If you want to come but are not able to cover your travel expenses, mail mbanck@debian.org and we will see what we can do. We explicitly encourage d-i hackers and QA people to consider joining us. Location: ========= The meeting will take place at the faculty of mathematics at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University, Munich. The building is located in Theresienstrasse 39 in the very center of Munich, about 10 minutes by foot (or one subway station) from the central station. How to get there: ================= By car: Finding a parking spot is not easy in the city center, so beware. The location is next to the Old Pinakoteque and the Pinakoteque of Modern Arts, slightly north of the central station and the Karlsplatz. By Train: After arriving at the central station, either take the U2 (direction Feldmoching), exit at 'Theresienstrasse' (two stops) and follow the signs to the Pinakoteques/'Museum Reich der Kristalle' (the meeting is in the same building as the latter) or just turn left when leaving the central station through the main entrance and walk along Luisenstrasse and turn right into Theresienstrasse after about 500 m. We will put up sign guiding to the exact location of the meeting inside of the building. Accomodation: ============= People from outside of Munich are invited to sleep at Michael Banck's place, which is one block away from the location of the meeting. There should be enough place for everybody who wants to come, but you should bring sleeping bags or bedrolls with you, as no beds are avaiable there. However, a shower and toilets are present of course. Equipment: ========== Network connection is excellent. Further, the full ftp.debian.org mirror ftp.leo.org is inside of the "Münchner Wissenschaftsnetz". WLAN will probably be available, too, but this is still being worked on. For people without their own hardware, computers will be available for them to hack on for the time of the meeting. Credits: ======== Thanks to Jens Schmalzing for providing the location of the meeting and to the DPL for making sure Sven and Frank (so far) are able to attend. hope to see you there, Michael [1] To be announced
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