[Qgis-developer] hackfest

[Otto Dassau]

Hi,

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:58:28 +0200
Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:

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> Hi Paolo
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> Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > Thanks for your efforts at the hackfest. I hope you enjoyed it a lot. We
> > already got some money from our donors programme, and I'm confident
> > we'll have enough to organize another fest not too far in the future (I
> > think twice a year would be good, do you agree?). 
> 
> Yes we discussed this at the hackfest. We would like to hold our next on
> in Prague in October 09. To do this we need to raise an average of USD
> $500 per developer attending. Assuming 10 developers that means we will
> need to raise $ USD 5000 to make this happen. We would like to also
> encourage non developers to come because it was extremely useful having
> them in Hannover and there are many hackfest activities they can
> contribute with including documentation cleanups, translations, giving
> inputs to user interface and user interaction ideas. It would also be
> great to have a dedicated non-dev to do the blogging, media etc next
> time. Someone with a bit of media skills and a good eye for presentation
> would be great.
> 
> >I think it would be
> > very good if:
> > - one of you could write a press report on the successes of the fest: if
> > it is clear that such things help effectively, people will be happier
> > donating; I'll translate it in Italian and propagate to the IT community
> > and magazines
> 
> I did quite a lot of work blogging about the event, making interviews
> with developers etc during the event. I wont have any more time to
> create press releases etc since I need to work like a dog to catch up
> the time missed for the hackfest now. :-( There is a whole heap of
> material on the blog that anyone is welcome to use for the purpose
> including a nice group shot (sorry Marco wasnt there for the photo :-( )

The Institute for Environmental Planning in Hannover also asked, if we can write
something they can link to on their webpages. I will write a report from all the
material and put it on the QGIS website, soon.

> > - a 1.0.2 could be released real soon, so to make it clear it is one of
> > the results of the fest; I do not think there should be any problem, as
> > I'm regularly using trunk, and I think it is even more stable than 1.0.1.
> > Thanks a lot.
> 
> I still have not even officially announced version 1.0.1 since we are
> waiting on a few packages. I think we can do 1.0.2 in a month or so.
> Assuming I have got the shiny new mingw package online, I will announce
> 1.0.1 this weekend.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim

 Otto