[Qgis-psc] QGIS 3 code sprint

[Yves Jacolin]

Hello,

>From my first email a lot of good news appear. We have now 4 sponsors so we 
probably ok with the fundings. We need to focus now on the lunch and dinner.

On Friday, November 11, 2016 7:52:08 Neumann, Andreas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> [..]
> 
> While I think that meetings are useful/important to discuss things,
> meetings usually are not the place where much code is produced. Besides,
> with github and mailing lists we have good platforms to discuss issues
> also without a meeting. I think we should concentrate our meeting
> expenses to the two annual global meetings we have - as it is at these
> meetings where most core devs meet at once. It is also quite unlikely
> that most core devs can come to much more than two meetings in a year,
> because they are either too far away or have contract work to do.
Well, I kindly disagree with this. Meeting could be a good way to get much 
code produced.

Let see after the 13rd of december :)

Y.
 
> This is my personal opinion.
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On 2016-11-10 17:36, Tim Sutton wrote:
> > Hi Yves
> > 
> >> On 07 Nov 2016, at 7:27 PM, Yves Jacolin <yjacolin at free.fr> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Dear PSC,
> >> 
> >> Several french(-swiss) companies are interested to organized a code
> >> sprint
> >> before the end of  the year.
> >> 
> >> As said in a previous mail last week, we (OSGeo-fr) are organizing an
> >> user
> >> meeting on the 1st and 2nd of December in Montpellier. Unfortunately we
> >> can't organized a code sprint there and decided to organized it
> >> independently of the user meeting.
> >> 
> >> This code sprint would take place in Lyon either in 29-29 November or
> >> 12-13
> >> December in regards of the feedback of the community [1].
> >> 
> >> We (Camptocamp, 3Liz, Oslandia) will focuse on QGIS v3, especially QGIS
> >> Server (but other developers are welcome to work on other parts).
> >> 
> >> We asked support from OSGeo-fr and still waiting the answer. We would
> >> like
> >> with this email to formalize the QGIS Code sprint organisation and
> >> discuss the possibilities to QGIS org to fund some  developer trip if
> >> needed.
> >> 
> >> This is quiet short to organized this so we will focused on lunch and
> >> dinner and location, no more (well if we find a location for a nice
> >> dinner it will be great). We will share a call for sponsorship program
> >> quickly this week.
> >> 
> >> Régis and I are the current organizer team and official contacts. Régis
> >> will post here the wiki page for the code sprint so you can register
> >> soon.> 
> > Sorry from my side also for the lack of feedback sooner. I think
> > everything you present in the email sounds fine (and great to see local
> > sprint efforts). In terms of funding, Andreas would be better informed if
> > we have any spare funds but there is also the larger question of if when
> > and how we should fund local events. Personally I think first priority
> > should go to our twice yearly international events, but I think it would
> > not be unreasonable to plan some part of our budget to ad hoc regional
> > events on a first come first served basis until the budget is used up.
> > Perhaps this is something we can incorporate into our next annual budget
> > Andreas?
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Tim
> > 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> >> Y.
> >> [1]
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> [2] http://kartoza.com/
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