KDE PIM Sprint Toulouse 2024

[Amanda Myers Johnson]

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On Tue, Mar 5, 2024, 3:28 AM Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Monday, 4 March 2024 19:54:50 CET Andre Heinecke wrote:
> > On Sunday, 25 February 2024 15:47:43 CET Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > > The venue we had last year for the PIM sprint in Toulouse is willing to
> > > host us again.
> > :/ I was offering the offices of g10 Code of Erkrath in Düsseldorf, Carl
> and
> > Volker wanted to ask Laurent if he might attend such a sprint. Since out
> of
> > the 8 polled users 5 are from Germany, one is czech and maybe Ingo and me
> > would make this 7 Germans one Czech and two French people.
> >
> > With that said a sprint in Germany would make much more sense to me. But
> a
> > PIM sprint without Laurent is also not really useful.
> >
> > Carl could pick up Laurent at the Airport and assist him throughout. We
> have
> > a decent hotel just 50m away from the office. Btw. I am open to at least
> > keep the sprint going in the weekdays for the g10 Code people and
> whomever
> > else might find the time,
>
> Yes, you made abundantly clear last year that you hate the area. So I
> admit I
> expected such a response. :-)
>
> Now to me it's not necessarily a problem that you offered your offices and
> that we have this place in Toulouse.
>
> If there are two easily available venues, that gives a chance of having
> two
> sprints in the year again. With the increased activity it'd only make
> sense.
>
> You probably don't want both of them too close to each other though,
> that's
> it. So if I were you I'd start with the organization in a couple of months
> aiming for late Autumn/early Winter. I mean... I started organizing this
> in
> January and it'll apparently be in June.
>
> > > I noted down the Friday when everyone is supposed to arrive in
> Toulouse,
> > > of course assume the sprint will go on from the Friday afternoon to the
> > > Sunday afternoon.
> > > The dates in the poll are based on conversations with Volker around
> > > FOSDEM.
> >
> > I will not travel to Toulouse for what amounts to basically just one day
> of
> > work. Maybe I can attend remotely?
>
> Well, in practice it's more like one full day and two half-days if you
> plan
> your travel accordingly... even more if like Volker you use the
> opportunity to
> test Itinerary and collect data on the way. :-)
>
> As for "attending remotely" we can probably do something about it yes.
> It's
> not the dark ages in Toulouse we have some connectivity at the venue.
> It'll
> probably make it even more important for you to communicate in advance the
> conversations you really want to be involved in though. In my experience
> this
> requires a bit more planning ahead.
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Kevin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
>
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