First day of online sprint (Was: Organising Debian Med Sprint starting on Thursday)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi folks,

just a short notice about the sprint today.  We have established a
new communitcation channel:

    https://app.element.io/#/room/#debian-med:matrix.org

Please join us on matrix if you consider instant messaging a sensible
enhancement for your workflow.

Regarding the sprint itself:  I admit I had hoped to more attendees but
it seems people do not take one or two days off if the sprint is "only"
from home.  If you need to book a plane and travel to some place that is
different.  Those who joined did some valuable contributoins reaching
from very generic stuff (Étienne worked on libzstd and now has a
changelog entry on every Debian 10 entry installation ;-)) via fixing
several cross-build issues (Nilesh) and other things.  I for myself
concentrated a bit on BioConductor issues and kept on hunting not yet
migrated packages.

I'd be super happy to see more people tomorrow.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 06:06:18PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi friends of Debian Med,
> 
> this will be our first online sprint.  I will miss you all in person but
> lets make the best out of it - hopefully meeting people who never made
> it to any sprint due to the big effort to travel.
> 
> I've just created a Wiki page
> 
>    https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/sprints/-/wikis/202102_debian-med_sprint_online
> 
> to provide those information that came up to my mind which should be
> relevant for attendees.  Feel free to add whatever you consider
> important for the attendees.
> 
> I added some long term contributors explicitly to CC of this mail as a
> kind invitation that their contribution was and is always welcome -
> during the sprint as well as later on.
> 
> I explicitly like to mention Charles Plessy and Afif Elghraoui who both
> seem to have drifted away a bit from the team to do other tasks.  I also
> would love to talk to Laszlo Kajan just to meet again but also about the
> future of Rostlab software (we remain with outdated unmaintainable code
> and are missing newer software).
> 
> Everybody is welcome to join - preferably newcomers since every sprint
> brought new people to the project and I'm hoping to be able to continue
> with this success.
> 
> I'm looking forward a lot to meet you all online, enjoy the hacking
> time, profit from the time we saved to travel and use it to write more
> code (just to focus on the bright side of the reason to meet only
> online) and save the environment some extra flight miles.
> 
> See you
> 
>      Andreas.
> 
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