Calligra Spring Sprint

[Mani N C]

+1 Great Idea.




On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:19 AM, sujith h <sujith.h at gmail.com> wrote:

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