First Summary, was: Developer Gathering

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:43:12PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> writes:
> > Please reply to this mail with your thoughts!
> Many raised the opinion that a virtual meeting would be great first, and
> then we can decide where and how we should meet up. I think we should do
> this in any case.  Eric Rzewnicki suggested to decide on a time for an
> IRC meeting via doodle. Eric, can you please set one up and post the
> vote URL as reply to this email? I'd think the first possible date does
> not need to be before the next weekend. Since we all need to think about
> what we want to discuss, I'd volunteer to collect agenda items. Please
> send me (either via this list or in private) your ideas what we should
> discuss in our first IRC meeting, and I'll assemble an agenda. I'll put
> this agenda on a wiki page as soon as we have decided on a time and
> date. 

Rather than burdening yourself with collecting this, I suggest we create
a Meeting page on the wiki where people can add items directly.

Something like: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Meetings

I would also suggest getting meetbot in our channel to help with logging
and keeping the meeting on track: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot 

I'll take care of talking to #meetbot people to get it going if others
agree this is a good idea.

> As location I'd suggest #debian-multimedia on irc.debian.org, many
> of us are already in that channel anyways.
> 
> Various people also suggested that we should meet up at some distro
> conference.  This would be much easier (and cheaper) to organize than an
> separate event. So let's collect what upcoming events we have:
> 
> | Event        | Date           | Location                 |
> |--------------+----------------+--------------------------|
> | Vlc Dev days | 18-20 December | Brighton, United Kingdom |
> | Fosdem       | 6.-7. February | Bruxelles                |
> | Debconf10    | 1.-7. August   | New York City            |
> | LAC          | 1.-4. May      | Netherlands              |

linux.conf.au 18-23 January Wellington, NZ
    and http://www.lca2010.org.nz/wiki/Miniconfs/Multimedia
    and http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2010/
    both around the same time in the same place

Probably too soon to organize anything major, but if anyone is going to
be there anyway ...

-edrz