Calligra Spring Sprint

[sujith h]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <shaan7in at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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 :)
>

I support this idea. This way we can save money a lot :)  So from my side
its +1.

>
>
>>
>>         -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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