[arch-dev-public] A big baad idea: ArchCon 2009
High concept: "What do you think would happen if as many Arch people as possible gathered in the same place at the same time?" Audience breakdown: All members of the dev team (well, duh) TU-selected members of the TU team Other Archers fanatical enough to attend People off the street Program: Hacking Talking Bonding (aww....) Drinking (woohoo!) etc TBC: Continent Country City Venue Menu Activities Restrooms Size of Mugs Imperial or Metric Yadda Yadda etc Teaser: one particular member of the dev team will volunteer to organise the whole shebang! I'm posting this here, because if the devs aren't interested, well... All the best Tom.
On 9/14/07, Tom K <tom@archlinux.org> wrote:
High concept: "What do you think would happen if as many Arch people as possible gathered in the same place at the same time?"
Audience breakdown: All members of the dev team (well, duh) TU-selected members of the TU team Other Archers fanatical enough to attend People off the street
Program: Hacking Talking Bonding (aww....) Drinking (woohoo!) etc
TBC: Continent Country City Venue Menu Activities Restrooms Size of Mugs Imperial or Metric Yadda Yadda etc
Teaser: one particular member of the dev team will volunteer to organise the whole shebang!
I'm posting this here, because if the devs aren't interested, well...
I've said it often - I am willing to host people in Chicago, but I only have like 1.5 couches.... of course any female members of the dev team are welcome to stay where it's warmer 8) *point point* Chicago would be cool though, if you guys want I could even organize something... but I doubt the Europeans are willing to travel here 8)
Aaron Griffin wrote:
Chicago would be cool though, if you guys want I could even organize something... but I doubt the Europeans are willing to travel here 8)
I'm European, and I'd go. :)
Am Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:50:25 +0100 schrieb Tom K <tom@archlinux.org>:
Aaron Griffin wrote:
Chicago would be cool though, if you guys want I could even organize something... but I doubt the Europeans are willing to travel here 8)
I'm European, and I'd go. :)
me too. but a more sunny place would be even better. Andy
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:37:16 +0200 Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
Am Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:50:25 +0100 schrieb Tom K <tom@archlinux.org>:
Aaron Griffin wrote:
Chicago would be cool though, if you guys want I could even organize something... but I doubt the Europeans are willing to travel here 8)
I'm European, and I'd go. :)
me too. but a more sunny place would be even better.
Andy
I would go, too. But what Andy said, a more sunny place would be great ;) Daniel
Tom K schrieb:
Aaron Griffin wrote:
Chicago would be cool though, if you guys want I could even organize something... but I doubt the Europeans are willing to travel here 8)
I'm European, and I'd go. :)
You're not European, you're from teh Island. I will be busy with my thesis in 2009 (hopefully almost finished by then) and won't be able to even afford the flight. I don't know this for sure, things may change, but that is the plan.
Thomas Bächler wrote:
Tom K schrieb:
Aaron Griffin wrote:
Chicago would be cool though, if you guys want I could even organize something... but I doubt the Europeans are willing to travel here 8) I'm European, and I'd go. :)
You're not European, you're from teh Island.
Oooh.. controversial. Mind you, similar guff is debated here regularly - the "Boston vs Berlin" debate is the snappy catch-all reference.
I will be busy with my thesis in 2009 (hopefully almost finished by then) and won't be able to even afford the flight.
Cool - we'll do it somewhere around the Mediterranean, you can drive/hitch/take a train/bus. :)
2007/9/15, Tom K <tom@archlinux.org>:
Thomas Bächler wrote:
Tom K schrieb:
Aaron Griffin wrote:
Chicago would be cool though, if you guys want I could even organize something... but I doubt the Europeans are willing to travel here 8) I'm European, and I'd go. :)
You're not European, you're from teh Island.
Oooh.. controversial. Mind you, similar guff is debated here regularly - the "Boston vs Berlin" debate is the snappy catch-all reference.
I will be busy with my thesis in 2009 (hopefully almost finished by then) and won't be able to even afford the flight.
Cool - we'll do it somewhere around the Mediterranean, you can drive/hitch/take a train/bus. :)
I'm 99,99% sure I won't be able to travel to USA or everywhere else except some European countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement (Poland is preferable, Germany is OK.) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
I'm 99,99% sure I won't be able to travel to USA or everywhere else except some European countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement (Poland is preferable, Germany is OK.)
Don't quite follow that, Roman, but if you're saying you can go anywhere in the Schengen area, then that's another vote for somewhere sunny on the Med. :)
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:59:31AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On 9/14/07, Tom K <tom@archlinux.org> wrote:
High concept: "What do you think would happen if as many Arch people as possible gathered in the same place at the same time?"
Audience breakdown: All members of the dev team (well, duh) TU-selected members of the TU team Other Archers fanatical enough to attend People off the street
Program: Hacking Talking Bonding (aww....) Drinking (woohoo!) etc
TBC: Continent Country City Venue Menu Activities Restrooms Size of Mugs Imperial or Metric Yadda Yadda etc
Teaser: one particular member of the dev team will volunteer to organise the whole shebang!
I'm posting this here, because if the devs aren't interested, well...
I've said it often - I am willing to host people in Chicago, but I only have like 1.5 couches.... of course any female members of the dev team are welcome to stay where it's warmer 8) *point point*
Chicago would be cool though, if you guys want I could even organize something... but I doubt the Europeans are willing to travel here 8)
Same here. I can organize whatever, and my 2009-self will likely be able to offer a couch or so (depending on when ArchCon would happen, and that whole unpredictable future thing). But yeah, if some place needs some reserving or checking out or whatever, can do. -S
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:59:31 -0500 "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/14/07, Tom K <tom@archlinux.org> wrote:
High concept: "What do you think would happen if as many Arch people as possible gathered in the same place at the same time?"
Audience breakdown: All members of the dev team (well, duh) TU-selected members of the TU team Other Archers fanatical enough to attend People off the street
Program: Hacking Talking Bonding (aww....) Drinking (woohoo!) etc
TBC: Continent Country City Venue Menu Activities Restrooms Size of Mugs Imperial or Metric Yadda Yadda etc
Teaser: one particular member of the dev team will volunteer to organise the whole shebang!
I'm posting this here, because if the devs aren't interested, well...
I've said it often - I am willing to host people in Chicago, but I only have like 1.5 couches.... of course any female members of the dev team are welcome to stay where it's warmer 8) *point point*
Chicago would be cool though, if you guys want I could even organize something... but I doubt the Europeans are willing to travel here 8)
Well that's odd - I didn't get the original email in my inbox. Anyway, this sounds uber-cool. Give me enough time (2009 should be lots of time ;) and I can probably make the arrangements to be wherever this is. People are suggesting sunny places. I guess the Frozen-White-North is out. :D -- Travis
Saturday 15 September 2007, Tom K wrote: | Teaser: one particular member of the dev team will volunteer to | organise the whole shebang! what is a shebang? the idea sounds great... but is it realisable? ... we are all from other regions! - D
Damir Perisa wrote:
Saturday 15 September 2007, Tom K wrote: | Teaser: one particular member of the dev team will volunteer to | organise the whole shebang!
what is a shebang?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shebang (Didn't Aaron already tell you about urbandict? :P)
the idea sounds great... but is it realisable? ... we are all from other regions!
One of the many good reasons to do it, IMO. Yes, it can be done - for the moment, it would be enough to know if people like the idea. So thanks!
Sunday 16 September 2007, Tom K wrote: | http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shebang | | (Didn't Aaron already tell you about urbandict? :P) true... but i out of practice ask for foreign words more directly than looking them up :) | > the idea sounds great... but is it realisable? ... we are all | > from other regions! | | One of the many good reasons to do it, IMO. | | Yes, it can be done - for the moment, it would be enough to know | if people like the idea. So thanks! ah ok. sure i like the idea. 2 years are however quite a long time to go. i'm willing to travel in europe and if it is not in europe, i would like to link it to something for me (e.g. a conference, a trip to buenos aires to learn tango properly, a trip to china to learn chinese, a trip to japan to learn japanese, ...). - D
On Sun, September 16, 2007 09:18, Tom K wrote:
Damir Perisa wrote:
Saturday 15 September 2007, Tom K wrote: | Teaser: one particular member of the dev team will volunteer to | organise the whole shebang!
what is a shebang?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shebang
(Didn't Aaron already tell you about urbandict? :P)
the idea sounds great... but is it realisable? ... we are all from other regions!
One of the many good reasons to do it, IMO.
Yes, it can be done - for the moment, it would be enough to know if people like the idea. So thanks!
I like the idea. Maybe we can get sponsorship? Anyone that uses Arch commercially or that may have an interest? Airfares and time will be problematic for me being a student. The australian summer/winter break is the opposite of the US one. As for airfares there's going to be more than a few specials in the next few years as the A380 and 787 come into play. I might be able to if the fares are reasonable for the new budget airline here doing AU<->US. James
I'd be keen. As for location..while it's hard to predict the economy...sterling is pretty strong against most currencies so my sofa is safe! Mwahahaha! Seriously, though. Air fares will prolly even out across attendees so the main cost decision is accommodation. We need to be somewhere were we can get the most for our cash.
Phil Dillon-Thiselton wrote:
I'd be keen.
As for location..while it's hard to predict the economy...sterling is pretty strong against most currencies so my sofa is safe! Mwahahaha!
Seriously, though. Air fares will prolly even out across attendees so the main cost decision is accommodation. We need to be somewhere were we can get the most for our cash.
Eastern Europe is famous for it's various things but not for beaches and bamboo huts. I'd be for the latter... :P Cheers, -G
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 02:39 +0100, Tom K wrote:
High concept: "What do you think would happen if as many Arch people as possible gathered in the same place at the same time?"
Audience breakdown: All members of the dev team (well, duh) TU-selected members of the TU team Other Archers fanatical enough to attend People off the street
Program: Hacking Talking Bonding (aww....) Drinking (woohoo!) etc
TBC: Continent Country City Venue Menu Activities Restrooms Size of Mugs Imperial or Metric Yadda Yadda etc
Teaser: one particular member of the dev team will volunteer to organise the whole shebang!
I'm posting this here, because if the devs aren't interested, well...
Don't know if I'll be there, depends on many things. I have plans to move to Norway early 2009, so I don't think I have a lot of money and time to do other things at that time.
participants (13)
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Aaron Griffin
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Alexander Baldeck
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Andreas Radke
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Damir Perisa
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Daniel Isenmann
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James Rayner
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Jan de Groot
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Phil Dillon-Thiselton
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Roman Kyrylych
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Simo Leone
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Thomas Bächler
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Tom K
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Travis Willard