AW: Re: [Qgis-user] AW: [Qgis-developer] Venue for next hackfest...Vienna?

[Düster Horst]

I like the name hackfest. It is a nice courtesy to the german speaking
community ;-) 

Cheap Beer is a strong argument to make a hackfest at Lancaster
University.

Regards
Horst

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Barry Rowlingson [mailto:b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk]
Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 2. April 2009 16:05
An: Andreas Neumann
Cc: qgis-developer
Betreff: Re: [Qgis-user] AW: [Qgis-developer] Venue for next
hackfest...Vienna?

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
wrote:
> yes - +1 for me ;-)
>
> It is a good idea to expose more universities to QGIS. After all it is
the
> students that somehow can infiltrate government orgs/companies with
> open-source software.
>
> Maybe we could also invite the geographers or other university
> institutions (which I still know from my university time in Vienna) to
> join a QGIS presentation as well.

 Perhaps you could run a workshop on open-source geospatial as well? I
know a good set of source materials :)

 I'd like to suggest Lancaster University as a location for a hackfest
in the future. Cheap accommodation in the student halls, cheap flights
from the US to Manchester Airport, cheap trains for the Europeans
maybe. Cheap beer.

 I have been wondering if 'Hackfest' is the right name. Clearly 'code
sprint' is wrong since there's other things to do apart from coding,
but I'm not sure if the 'hack' in 'Hackfest' is quite right. How does
"QGis Development Days", or 'Dev Days" sound? Not as catchy... Other
ideas?

Barry
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