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  • From: "Mathieu L." <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] european meeting in bonn
  • Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 11:26:36 +0200

Hello,

jsyk, I may not be able to make it as I have a trekking trip scribbing
its way on my calendar for August 24th-29th. I've updated the wiki
accordingly.
Nevertheless, I think it's a good idea to base the smgl meeting around
FrOSCon.

Cheers,
Mathieu.

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:30:50PM +0200, Robert Figura wrote:
> Hi fellow mages,
>
> i'd like to invite you all to consider to have the european meeting in
> Bonn, Germany around August 23/24.
>
> Bonn is a nice, small city (300.000 habitants), former seat of the
> german government, birthplace of ludwig van beethoven and it has a
> traditional university. We have the river Rhine flowing through the
> city which means good air. Cologne is 25 kilometers away, Frankfurt
> about 180 kilometers.
>
> http://www.stephaneisel.de/clubs/eisel/artic/bonnpanorama_luft.jpg
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/leap05/main/images/bonn.jpg
>
> http://depend.cs.uni-sb.de/fileadmin/template/main/images/Bonn_Townhall.jpg
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn
>
>
> At that date there will be the frOSCon 2008 in the suburban
> St.Augustin which is about 20 minutes tram away from the center. The PHP
> folks even managed to position an official subconference.
>
> http://www.froscon.de/index.php?L=1
> http://froscon.phpugdo.de/.html
>
> SourceMage seems to fit very well into their preferred topic
> list. Connecting us with the frOSCon has several benefits:
>
> - it may attract more outsiders to sourcemage and fellow mages to the
> meeting
> - we may use their communication infrastructure for accomodation for
> free
> - to some extend this may also be true for transportation
> - lots and lots of geeks to meet
>
> Please note that for non-speakers the entry fee to the frOSCon
> will be 5 Euros (both days).
>
> Their call for papers is open until June 2nd. I think that is an
> opportunity we should think about! It also seems to be possible that
> we might get some room to set up a presentation booth there.
>
> http://www.froscon.de/en/program/call-for-papers.html
>
> I haven't talked to them, but i will as soon as i know what to ask...
>
>
> I'm living in Bonn for 10 years now and would like to apply to the
> position of the event organizer. Tell me what you'd like to see and ask
> what you want to know so i can see what i can do.
>
> Here are some questions about the european meeting i am most
> clueless about:
>
> How many will come? Maybe one of the organizers of previous meetings
> can give me a hint on how the number can be estimated in accordance with
> the interest. (e.g. shown on the wiki:)
>
> http://wiki.sourcemage.org/European_Meeting
>
> Do we need an additional location for more jovial workshops or serious
> work? Of course we'll need internet...
>
>
> Regards
> - Robert Figura (irc nick: template)
>
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