Calligra sprint in May?

Marijn Kruisselbrink mkruisselbrink at kde.org
Thu Mar 8 05:28:00 GMT 2012


On Thursday, March 08, 2012 04:31:16 AM Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 07, 2012 08:24:19 Inge Wallin wrote:
> > The e.V board has a new policy for sprints that means that you have to
> > apply for a budget the quarter before you plan to give a sprint. This
> > means that if we want to have a sprint in Q2, we need to apply for it
> > before end of March.
> > 
> > So, should we try to organize a sprint in May as usual? I would love to
> > and I think it would hurt our development if we didn't.
> > 
> > Since the situation today is slightly different, than previous years I'm
> > not sure we can get a corporate sponsor of the type that Nokia was last
> > time. So any ideas for a good venue? I really loved the Linux Hotel in
> > Essen and I think it would be very nice to go there again. And most
> > importantly, any volunteers for organizing it?
> 
> I think May might be a bit early for planning a sprint. Specially as we
> already have only until end of March to get the planning done. I think it
> might be easier to plan something for Q3. Also we might want to think about
> doing maybe 2 sprints. One in Europe and one in India to bring down the
> costs for the sprint.
I think a sprint in May would have been really useful, but maybe it is indeed 
a bit late to organize one now.
At least europe and india would probably both be about equally expensive and 
hard to get to for me (but then, that is my own fault for moving so far away 
:) )

Marijn



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