Re: Clojure Team Sprint -- proposed dates

[Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>]

On 2022-03-07 22 h 54, Elana Hashman wrote:
> On 2022-03-07 06:14, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> As discussed on the IRC channel, it would be great to organize a remote
>> Clojure Team sprint to work on a few things, namely leiningen and
>> clj/cli support.
>>
>> Elana seemed to say sometime in May would work for her, so I'm proposing
>> the following dates:
>>
>> *Friday May 20th and Saturday May 21st*
> 
> I have a conflict on the 20th and 27th... perhaps we can do the 13-14th?

That would work for me.

>> Once we've agreed on a date, I'll make a proper wiki page and ask the
>> DPL for a food budget.
>>
>> I was thinking something like 3 meals per person for the sprint, with a
>> per person budget of 25 USD? If I am out of touch with the price of
>> take-out food in the US, I'll be happy to ask for more :)
> 
> There is a tool to estimate this! The US government (via the General
> Services Administration) says $79 USD/day -> ~$25/meal for Seattle[1]
> which is more in-line with what I've seen for food prices.>
> They have $117/day for Montreal[2]...
> 
> When I ran a BSP in NYC[3] 5 years ago, we had 6 attendees and I believe
> I expensed around $350 USD for the half day event, which covered the
> space rental and a food minimum. I think $100 USD/developer for a
> two-day event would be reasonable -> $25/meal for 4 meals. IIRC that was
> a standard travel budget number for events back when we used to travel. :)

I meant 25 USD/meal, but using that tool and asking for a budget based
on a number of meals per person sounds like a great idea.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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