Re: Date shift: Sprint moving to 10-12/2/2018, was: Debian Med Sprint 26-28/1/2018 in Barcelona
Hello,
On 17.11.17 11:50, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> [...]
>>> I wonder whether it would be possible to have our Sprint *before* the
>>> ELIXIR meeting. I do not question your point above but I have strong
>>> private reasons to keep the weekend 10./11. February 2018 free. If
>>> anybody else would be in a similar situation (and the ELIXIR meeting
>>> would last the whole week so that we can profit from the attached dates)
>>> I would welcome to shift it to the weekend before.
>> That would be in parallel with FOSDEM, which I had hoped to avoid this time
>> since that complaint came up a few times before.
> Just for the record: I will definitely be at FOSDEM which means I would
> not be able to attend the sprint in case of a collision.
And there are likely others who we have yet not reached with our Sprint
because of that. Or we learn that there are no others: Let us avoid that
collision - and let us avoid further confusion and not change the date
again.
>> And how about having a second retreat with a summer-in-mountains-theme
>> (which is a bit of an inside joke since this pretty much describes the area
>> Andreas lives in, while I started this water-theme close to my home at the
>> Baltic sea, so I am basically asking if we could compensate should Andreas
>> miss parts of this Sprint)? I keep thinking that every of our meetings
>> has done something good to our Debian Blend, so maybe we can double that?
> Agreed. I would like that as well :) If not an Andreas' place, then
> maybe somewhere more accessible?
Like an "either in the mountains or at an Airport"-theme? I'd be up for
that.
We could also occupy seminar rooms at University Clinics. Or we visit the
big pharma's research centers (not that these could be easily reached).
Is there someone out there who is mentally prepared to shape that second
meeting? Maybe we develop an idea on how to give it a slightly different
"touch" of some sort. What kind of nags me is "outreach". That
"conference booth"
for instance is not materialising, and in part this is because we do not
know
what to show, I tend to think. Maybe the Sprints could help with that?
What I completely overlooked was next year's split of BOSC (and the Codefest
with it) from ISMB. Would it make any sense to have Debian Med
"representatives"
at such conferences? They could for instance wear some sort of a button so
other attendees can contact them spontaneously for any issue at hand?
Best,
Steffen
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