[Qgis-psc] QGIS hackfest in Hannover 19.-22./23. March 2009

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Otto

2009/1/9 Otto Dassau <otto.dassau at gmx.de>:
> Hi,
>
> some first information about the QGIS hackfest in Hannover and the FOSSGIS
> conference [1].
>

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>
> 4) I plan to announce the meeting only to the developers list, because I have
> the impression that the hackfest is a more internal meeting, where hopefully
> many QGIS developers meet. And it is not meant to be a QGIS conference open
> for anybody, although if there are some interested people, they can join of
> course. Is my impression correct? I plan to announce the meeting end of next
> week and will add a wiki page for the organization.

My feeling is that if we can organise and accommodate non developers
we should. For me the entrance criteria should be "any committed to
improving the QGIS project". It would be great to include community,
documentation, bug reporters etc. What we want to avoid I guess are
people coming along without a plan to contribute anything since they
will probably distract people there from getting on with hacking.

I dont know how others feel about this...

regards

Tim


>
> Or is there maybe a list of developers I should contact and ask directly?
>
> 5) I asked at german FOSSGIS e.V. (german OSGEO local chapter) and they
> (probably) support our hackfest with 500 Euro. I guess we can use that money to
> pay some travel expenses. Paolo, is there still any money available from the
> QGIS project as well?
>
> ok, that's all for now. If you have anything to add/change or more ideas, please
> tell me.
>
> regards,
>  Otto
>
> [1] http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/Main_Page
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