Calligra Spring Sprint

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:

> On Wednesday, December 05, 2012 18:35:59 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> > > Hi people,
> > >
> > > It's time to have another sprint!
> > >
> > > I have been in contact with the Linux hotel.  They say that all
> weekends
> > > in jan / feb are available except the 2-3rd of February. I have added a
> > > few in march as well as we are not that far from January but beware
> that
> > > these may not be available.  (Actually we could be unlucky and have the
> > > one we want booked by somebody else the day before we do it but such is
> > > life...).
> > >
> > > I have created a doodle: http://doodle.com/dwznt2uk5de6zgn6
> > >
> > > Note that the dates are all saturdays. They represent the weekend from
> > > Friday
> > > until Sunday. The format will be as usual: We arrive friday, start with
> > > some
> > > discussions and beers and the real sprint starts on saturday and lasts
> > > until
> > > sunday launch or so. The rest of sunday is travel home time.
> > >
> > > So please add your name to the doodle so that we can book the Linux
> hotel
> > > as
> > > soon as possible.
> >
> > Recalling what happened to the last planned Calligra Sprint as part of
> the
> > Randa meetings, our expenses were a lot because of lots of travel to
> > Europe. This was mostly because of the large number of Indian
> contributors
> > to Calligra. I remember someone throwing an idea (was during Akademy most
> > probably) that in such cases where travel funding is an issue, we can
> have
> > the sprint in Germany and India at the same time and connect using video
> > conferencing. While it certainly won't be as fun as a face to face meet,
> > its still better than nothing.
> >
> > What do you guys think?
>
> I think this is an excellent idea!
>
> But I have little chance of helping to organize that so I guess it's up to
> somebody actually within India to do it.
>

I will take care of the organizing once we've confirmed that we want to do
it this way :)


>
>         -Inge
>
> PS.  I CC'ed claudia as well since she or the board would have to ack this.
>
>
> > > I will also create a sprint page on the KDE sprints site so that we can
> > > start
> > > looking at the budget. I have also talked with the board and they are
> ok
> > > with
> > > it. We just have to give them a figure.
> > >
> > >         -Inge
> > >
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