[TOSprint] Proposed Vienna Code Sprint 2014

[Jeff McKenna]

One thing to note is all the travel that our European friends have been
doing to attend the sprint.  I went to the airport with Gerald on the
way home from Boston: my flight was 1.5 hours, he reached his car in
France after 22 hours.  We owe it to our friends to make it easier for
them to contribute.  So maybe we rotate back and forth each year.

-jeff



On 2013-04-19 10:08 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> I agree with Steve: some projects such as MapServer, GDAL/OGR and
> PostGIS have key developers on both sides of the ocean and the sprints
> should aim to help connect them.
> 
> Unfortunately having two sprints each year, one in Europe and one in NA
> won't help much for those projects unless the core devs can travel to
> both sprints.
> 
> A nice problem to have, but not an easy one to resolve.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> On 13-04-18 4:45 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) wrote:
>> Key for MapServer is getting the NA and European sprinters in the same
>> place so I support whatever makes that happen. If it's Vienna then
>> I'll happily make the trip, seems only fair. --Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tosprint-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:tosprint-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 7:10 PM
>> To: Daniel Morissette; tosprint at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [TOSprint] Proposed Vienna Code Sprint 2014
>>
>> [ disclaimer: I wasn't at Boston this year, so I may not have the full
>> story - forgive me if this ground was already covered... ]
>>
>> While I fully support the idea of a Vienna sprint, I'm not sure that
>> it would draw many from North America. There are more than enough
>> potential sprinters on both continents that I'd like to a see *both* a
>> Euro Sprint and a NorthAmer Sprint.
>>
>> If David wants to run an event in Philadelphia, then great. If that
>> doesn't come through, though, I'd be up to hosting an event at
>> IslandWood again.
>>
>> -mpg
>>
>> On 4/16/13 7:47 AM, "Daniel Morissette" <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you very much Stephan for putting this together.
>>>
>>> To put things in context for everyone, we do not have a formal process
>>> in place yet to choose the next C Sprint venue. In past years, we just
>>> happened to have one person volunteer to do the next one. That person
>>> would usually express their intention on the last few days of the
>>> sprint and if the proposal sounded interesting to all participants then
>>> that was it.
>>>
>>> This year we had a very nice problem with two interested parties, so we
>>> could not make an easy decision:
>>>
>>> - Stephan Meissl, EOX - Proposing Vienna and taking the sprint to
>>> Europe for the first time
>>>
>>> - David Zwarg, Azavea - Proposing Philadelphia
>>>
>>> Both are very keen and have been active participants of the sprint for
>>> multiple years. We were convinced that both could pull out a great
>>> sprint, so we suggested that they both do a bit of research on their
>>> side and get back to this list by the end of April with more details on
>>> what their proposed venue/sprint would be like.
>>>
>>> So here we are, Stephan came up with his proposal. I would expect to
>>> see David come back with something in the next little while as well...
>>> and then we'll need to find a way to make this decision.
>>>
>>> Suggestions welcome for the decision process. I do not claim to have
>>> authority to make or influence this decision myself, this email is just
>>> to put things in context for everyone on the list who may not be aware
>>> of the discussions that happened at our corner of the table during the
>>> Wednesday night group dinner in Boston.
>>>
>>> Well, the habs beat Boston also that night but that is another story.
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> On 13-04-16 10:28 AM, Stephan Meißl wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> as promised at the Boston Code Sprint I've investigated the
>>>> possibilities to host the 2014 Code Sprint in Vienna and I'm happy to
>>>> make the proposal available at [1].
>>>>
>>>> The City of Vienna, MA 14 [2] confirmed to sponsor the venue for up
>>>> to
>>>> 30 sprinters in their very new office called STAR 22 [3]. The venue
>>>> is not far from the center of Vienna (~25min via train and subway)
>>>> and can be reached easily from the Vienna airport via train.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know the processes for selection but I suggest if you like
>>>> the proposal to add yourself to the list of possible participants
>>>> indicating your preferred dates to determine the best date and get an
>>>> estimate of participation. Opinions?
>>>>
>>>> Looking forward to welcome you all in Vienna!
>>>>
>>>> cu
>>>> Stephan
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014
>>>> [2] http://www.wien.gv.at/english/administration/ict/index.html
>>>> [3]
>>>>
>>>> http://www.wien.gv.at/stadtplan/grafik.aspx?lang=de-AT&bookmark=zHClRv
>>>> 95T
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