Dear all,
I've been asked by a number of pepole about a possible Osmocom village at the
CCC Camp 2019. I personally didn't really have any plans, but given related
e-mails and "encouragement" I went ahead and registered an "Osmocom Village",
see
https://signup.c3assemblies.de/assembly/3b8f7aa2-95d5-4c44-aadc-de8f2680e9c3
I also created a wiki page (as nobody else did, despite earlier discussion on IRC,
SCNR) for coordinating related efforts at
https://osmocom.org/projects/osmo-dev-con/wiki/CCC_Camp_2019
One of the bigger questions is about having a tent as well as some tables/benches
to sit on and work. The Camp orga team nas been negotiating rates with a tent
rental company, but to be honest I'm rather surprised by the extremely steep
pricing. The smallest possible tent (6m x 3m) would cost 825 EUR. I'm not
sure we want to raise that amount of money? Even if we'd be 10 people sharing
it, its still 82.50 EUR per person. And that excludes any tables/chairs.
I'm attaching the relevant parts of a mail from the assemblies orga team FYI.
Please note there also is some kind of fragmentation / overlap with the
team planning to run the GSM/3G networks at the camp, see Lynxis'
related post at
https://lists.osmocom.org/mailman/private/osmocom-event-orga/2019-June/0003…
It's questionable whether it makes sense to have tow distinct
'villages', but given that e.g. I don't know anyone of that singularity
city, I'm not sure if we'd either be welcome there, nor whether we'd
want to associate us with them? Also, while the GSM network operation
for sure has good reasons to mingle with the POC and whatever facilities
they have, I'm not sure if the wider Osmocom community attendees
unrelated to the GSM network operation wouldn't just be a
disturbance/nuisance.
In the end, to be honest, I personally do not feel I have the time and
mental capacity to take on any additional tasks in terms of organizing
anything. I just created the entry in c3assemblies as I was asked to,
and I similarly created the related mailing list and wiki page.
So please, anyone interested in making an Osmocom village happen one way
or another, step up [and continue this discussion on the
camp2019-village(a)lists.osmocom.org mailing list, without crossposting
everywhere else :)
Regards,
Harald
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- Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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