Re: Winter hackfest

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 17 November 2013 22:09, Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all, Dave and I have volunteered to organise the docs hackfest in
> UK this winter so that it's easier for non-Europeans to come as there
> should be more direct flights available to UK than to our usual haunt
> in Brno.
>
> We would like to host the hackfest in Norwich (which is where we live,
> as it's easier for us to organise it if we don't need to travel), but
> it is also possible to have it at the Collabora offices in Cambridge
> (or elsewhere, if you have a contact for a space for us to work in).
> The only issue with hosting it in Cambridge is that accommodation
> there is a bit on the (very) expensive side.
>
> The plan at the moment is to work on user help. The updates for 3.10
> have made it clear that we need to review gnome-user-docs to make sure
> all of it is still needed and is up to date because much of the GNOME
> Shell UI has changed in recent releases. Hopefully, we won't see quite
> as many changes for 3.12.
>
> Some of the help which we wrote early on for GNOME 3 is also now
> somewhat outdated due to UI and functionality changes, and there are
> also a number of new applications which are still undocumented.
>
> We have produced some really good work at our previous hackfests and I
> think this will be a great opportunity to catch up with all the recent
> changes in GNOME.
>
> In parallel with that, Frederic Peters and Martin Packman would like
> to work on library-web (our help.gnome.org/library.gnome.org and
> developer.gnome.org websites).
>
> If you would like to come, please add yourself as soon as possible to
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/WinterDocs2014

Hi all, if you would like to request travel sponsorship for the
hackfest, please make sure that your travel costs are down on the form
and if you do not mention accommodation, I will assume that you would
like sponsorship to stay at the preferred hackfest accommodation.

> The planned dates are for week leading up to FOSDEM. If you've never
> been to FOSDEM, it's well worth going as it's probably the best FOSS
> conference in Europe. It takes place over the first weekend of
> February and I would recommend staying for Sunday night.