Re: Docs hackfest (the winter 2016 edition)

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 17:30 +0100, Petr Kovar wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Dec 2015 13:56:54 -0500
> Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 17:09 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > On 21 October 2015 at 11:40, Ekaterina Gerasimova
> > > <kittykat3756 gmail com> wrote:
> > > > Time has come to plan our next hackfest! At our last hackfest at
> > > > Open
> > > > Help, we made good progress on updating gnome-user-docs for 3.18
> > > > but
> > > > there is still more work to do and by the time January comes
> > > > around,
> > > > we'll already know more about the 3.20 release.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to propose Norwich on the 23rd/24th-28th January,
> > > > which
> > > > would lead you straight into the FOSDEM weekend for those of you
> > > > who
> > > > want to go to that. I am hoping that there will be a documentation
> > > > room there, so it may be more interesting from that point of view
> > > > too.
> > > > And there's always the booth to look after.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to propose that we review the gnome-user-docs for 3.20
> > > > (there is some new content that we should add) and think about our
> > > > workflow for releases. What do you think?
> > > >
> > > > Other suggestions location wise are also welcome.
> > >
> > > I only heard back from a couple of people so far. If you are
> > > interested in attending, please let me know as we need to reach
> > > critical mass before it's worth having a hackfest.
> > >
> > > If there's not enough interest in the hackfest, we should hold some
> > > online hacking days instead.
> >
> > I'm not going to be able to attend this one. FOSDEM isn't in the cards
> > for me this year, and it's too close to my DevConf travel to add more
> > flights.
>
>
> Could we have the hackfest after FOSDEM? That would be the week between
> FOSDEM and DevConf. That might make more sense for people wanting to attend
> both the hackfest and DevConf (and/or FOSDEM).
>
> I'm going to have a busy January but want to help reaching the critical
> mass. :)

I'll be in Brno the week before DevConf, but even if we had the hackfest
there, I can't guarantee I'd be able to spend much time with the team.

--
Shaun