On Thursday 7. December 2006 18:02, Marie-Laure DAINESI wrote:
I'm Marie-Laure from Cetril and I organise the next developers meeting
in Soissons that will take place from the 8th to the 12th of january in
Soissons.
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Today, we only have 8 personns who have booked a place for the stay so
would you want to conserv this dates or do you prefer to modificate them
and to come later ?
Usually, the Skolelinux/DebianEdu gatherings include a weekend. A lot of the
voluntary developers, translators and teachers are busy working with other
things throughout the week. By making the gathering over a long weekend,
contributors can get two-three days off instead of five days. Thats more easy
to negotiate with our employer.
I'll suggest this days:
Wednesday (travel to dev.camp in the afternoon),
Thursday (some will travel early to dev.camp),
Friday,
Saturday,
Sunday,
Monday (travel in the afternoon),
Tuesday (some stay over and travel early).
This introduces flexibility that will get more developer / translators / and
other contributors to come.
So thats my advice: include one weekend.
I'll say that's impressive that 8 persons says they will join a whole week
right after Christmas, a major holiday in most of European countries. When it
comes to full week developer gatherings, most of them are done through the
summer, when developers can use a week of their summer holliday. There are
exceptions of course :)
Best regards
Knut Yrvin
It's important for Cetril to help community project and to help
developers to organise meetings. So, it's possible to change the dates
to try to find the better period. So, If you prefer we can talk about
that during an online meeting to be able to define the date for the
january meeting.