Hi, (Sorry, missed that mail, thanks for pinging) On 12/09/13 at 20:01 +0200, "Steffen Möller" wrote: > Dear Sprints team, > > The Debian Med community in collaboration with the Bio-Linux community > has fixed the time and location for their next gathering, which would > very much like to officially name "Debian Med Sprint" again: > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Aberdeen2014 > > We meet for a 4th time, always during the Winter months at the then > tourist-deprived seaside in vicinity to a Computational-Biology-savvy > University for a weekend in a family-run hotel. No distractions. Not > much to the surprise of attending Debian folks but sometimes a bit > more so for the others, it is always a very intense gathering, with a > considerable outreach into the biological research community. In the > last three years we have attracted at least two additional DDs > (Olivier Sallou and Laszlo Kajan) and a series of DMs with an outreach > much into Debian main. Interacting strongly with the international > Bioinformatics Open Source community, we have just got a paper > accepted for the NETTAB conference that describes the Codefests, > Hackathons and Sprints, fast-tracked to the BMC Bioinformatics Open > Access journal. > > Admittedly, we are taking the concept of a Sprint a bit to the > extreme, having been always more than 20 people from all over Europe > at the event. We this time hope for the sponsoring of five DDs, with > an estimated costs for travel of 400 Euros each. The DDs will share > rooms and pay for their food to keep costs down, asking nonetheless > for the support of a max 2000 Euros. The participants list shows three > DDs. A fourth regularly attending DD is moving homes and countries ATM > and could not yet be reached. Should he not be able to attend, then we > would hope to reach out to a member of Debichem/Debian-Science to join > plus a representative of pkg-java to help the networking within > Debian. > > Hoping for a positive acceptane from the DPL, this list and our > community at large Your plans sound reasonable, so I'm fine with allocating a total of 400 EUR (on average) per DD, for a maximum number of 5 DDs. (So it means a total of 2000 EUR if 5 DDs attend, 1600 if 4 DDs attend, etc.) Lucas
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