Hi,
The idea here is to get all the active contributors of the project together for a couple of days (maybe 2-4 days), in order to exchange ideas, get to know each other better and last but not least work together on ironing out some of the more difficult issues.
This would definitely be awesome :)
- City:
I think Berlin is a good place. If I'm not mistaken, there is already a fair number of active developers locally in Berlin. And others from Germany in general and I'd guess travel to/from the capital should be easy. I know that travel for me to/from Berlin is also relatively cheap as long as it's not booked too late.
- Venue:
If it is in Berlin, we might consider talking with c-base or Raumfahrtagentur as possible venues.
Do you by anychance know if any of these location have walking distance cheap hotels ? (sorry don't know Berlin at all except for Alexanderplatz ...)
- Date:
I know dealing with everyone requirements is a bit tricky, I can personally free myself pretty much any time given sufficient notice (except for conferences I'm already planning to attend see below)
Maybe listing the dates to avoid would give a clearer picture. I don't attend a lot of conferences so I don't know all their dates. The one I'm planning to attend so far are Fosdem, Google IO2012, Deepsec 2012, 29c3. What others to consider ?
- Funding:
As we don't have that many commercial users of Osmocom projects, getting funding for e.g. travel / accomodation is probably going to be difficult. We can ask the "usual suspects" among those commercial users we know,, but I guess it will only be possible in exceptional cases to provide that kind of funding.
Doesn't sound like an issue for me. I can take care of my travel/accommodation costs and participate in any shared cost (venue/misc/...). And if someone can't support the cost, deal with that on a case by case basis ?
Maybe starting a Wiki page with the data (people planning to attend / dates to avoid ) ... The openbsc wiki I guess ?
Cheers,
Sylvain