[Qgis-developer] Hackfest in Americas? was Re: HF: final remarks

[John C. Tull]

Davis would have the added benefit of being a reasonably short drive for me. :-) In addition, it is accessible by BART and train from SFO. Portland and Seattle are also great venues, so it might depend on the costs for Gary and others that would be needed to really pull off something useful. I don't have coding skills, but can happily test, debug and provide opinions, assuming timing and locale permit attendance.

On Oct 12, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:

> Gary and I have chatted about this. The west coast is somewhat ideal and
> the further north the better (in terms of shorter/cheaper flights,
> especially for the Alaska crew).
> 
> The main characters that I know of to involve would be:
> Larry - Dakotas
> Aaron Racicot - Oregon
> Gary Sherman - Alaska (+ a couple of people Gary works with)
> Alex Mandel (me) - Davis, CA
> Bob M.(cgsbob) - Sacramento, CA
> Jctull - Reno, Nv
> 
> Seattle or Portland seem like good candidates with CUGOS and PDX-OSGeo
> chapters. OSGeo Sprint was outside Seattle last year. Also there is the
> OSGeo North America in Minnesota this April.
> 
> Of course I'm willing to host at UC Davis if it helps, since I can get
> rooms relatively easily but we need help organizing donations to keep us
> fed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> On 10/12/2012 10:55 AM, Larry Shaffer wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>>> Hi all.
>>> This HF is over - only three Italians stranded in Essen, waiting for
>>> their flights back.
>>> I personally want to deeply thank Horst, Otto, and all those who helped
>>> organize this very successful event. The location is simply ideal, no
>>> waste of time, maximum concentration on coding and discussing (OK, apart
>>> from the bad influence of IT Crowd, damned), a beautiful and quiet
>>> place, a friendly atmosphere, and efficient infrastructure.
>>> In my personal opinion, Villa Vogelsang is the best place we've ever
>>> had, and I would suggest coming back here more or less regularly (e.g.
>>> we could have one itinerant HF per year, and another one here).
>>> Another thing I'd like is to make it easier for people from other
>>> continents to participate (we are too Eurocentric at the moment),
>>> without incurring in too high flight costs. Perhaps we could have
>>> simultaneous HFs in each continent, and be constantly connected in audio
>>> and video?
>> 
>> Thanks for bringing this up Paolo.
>> 
>> I would like to go to a QGIS hackfest, but the European venues are not
>> financially feasible for me (and probably not for others as well). The
>> hackfests seem to generate very positive momentum for the project, as
>> well as code.
>> 
>> I am definitely in favor of attending one here (in the US). If it
>> could coincide with another going on in another part of the world,
>> that would be very cool.
>> 
>> If one were to be in the US, obviously having it in a locale with an
>> international airport seems logical. How were accommodations for
>> FOSS4G in Denver (2011)?
>> 
>> How many are interested in a sister hackfest in the US, ideally one
>> video- or audio-linked to another in Europe (or elsewhere)?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Larry
>> 
>> 
>>> Thanks again to all for contributing to this success, that marks another
>>> step in the history of QGIS.
>>> 
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