<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Steven,<div><br></div><div>this has been discussed in the past, where I was in favour of a sprint before the conference, but I think I was one of the few (if not the only one), since most people have talks and workshops to prepare.</div><div><br></div><div>I was a bit surprised though to see the conference move into the weekend, what is the thought behind that? I can hardly imagine doing a code sprint after a six day work week.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Bart</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Oct 17, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I know it is very early to start talking about code sprints for FOSS4G 2013 but we have a couple of options that we would like to share.</div><div><div><br></div><div>The rough timetable for FOSS4G 2013 <b><u>currently</u></b> looks like this:</div><div><br></div><div>Tuesday 17th Sept - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Workshops</div><div>Wednesday 18th -<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Workshops, Icebreaker event in the evening</div><div>Thursday 19th - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Conference Opens, Plenary, Streams, Gala night</div><div>Friday 20th - <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Conference streams, afternoon plenary, free night</div><div>Saturday 21st -<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Conference streams, closing plenary, FOSS4G closes, informal party for those staying over</div><div>Sunday 22nd -<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Side meetings, chapter groups</div><div><br></div><div>So the questions are</div><div><ol class="MailOutline"><li>When do you want to run the code sprints? Our preference would be to provide facilities for the code sprints on Sunday 22nd but if there was a strong preference to go for the Monday we could try to secure space for that (not guaranteed but we could try)</li><li>If there is a choice between one large space with clusters for the different projects or a series of smaller rooms which would you prefer?</li><li>Apart from power, internet and coffee are there any other requirements?</li></ol><div><br></div><div>Can we get your feedback on this in next few days as we will need to make some choices with the venue by early next week. Apologies for short notice.</div><div>
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