[Qgis-developer] Hackfest vs. Code Sprint

[Andreas Neumann]

 QGIS Community Meeting sounds good to me.

 Sorry about disowning the original name.

 Andreas

 On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:27:04 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> Eh what a pity we have to disown the name for the people which gave
> rise to FOSS.  If we are going to go PC, why not lets call it the
> 'QGIS Community Meeting' which should be inclusive enough for all
> shapes & sizes. I can see in my crystal ball a future where users 
> self
> organise and use the event to show off the work they have been doing
> using QGIS, share ideas, and of course help to make the project 
> better
> by coding, translating, etc.!
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Paolo Cavallini
> <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>> On lun, 2011-02-21 at 11:03 +0000, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>>
>>> I thought the idea behind not calling it a "code sprint" was to
>>> encourage non-coders (graphic designers, doc writers, testers etc) 
>>> to
>>> participate? Perhaps "Developer Meeting" or "Development Meeting"
>>> (subtle difference)?
>>
>> You may be right. A more generic term could be good.
>> In fact, the event could move to a real general QGIS event, putting 
>> in
>> contiguous days the HF itself (ehm, CS) and an user meeting; I think
>> this could encourage more participation of people scared of 
>> development,
>> but that could contribute to the project.
>> All the best.
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