From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Milanesio Subject: Re: Next Git conference or meeting Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:20:42 +0100 Message-ID: <1A6AAC8B-0C82-4296-B1C8-BF0739A28A80@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT To: Christian Couder , git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 02 09:21:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XOiOe-0004AY-Qm for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:20:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752389AbaIBHUq (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2014 03:20:46 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:40203 "EHLO mail-wi0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752363AbaIBHUp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Sep 2014 03:20:45 -0400 Received: by mail-wi0-f178.google.com with SMTP id r20so7257146wiv.5 for ; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:20:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:content-type:mime-version:subject:in-reply-to:date :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=xG6sPkbOZKc+Ktu89eKEGQqVeYIJZA7jCeqlrprPpdM=; b=x4EHjm6z74OTqQ9Cn0/exqB0afzAmAoKCV2qn64k5bHS2+i7y7w3/xi8EXdM85JsvF OgFKD2veCaJgnCXvNszcMEblDuS+1GaJ9vn5ZWIwsdtjr19/Etvw2ZjCOH8CLdopfb0n K7tBC/zwJcSl2iW17ZKsdW3lMLbTw0Wluy8qpVf2GK7doDYeeC7h8plUIC94mWjuUQtn a8HFUu+sxQnEpnrNEAu7VsSuntfD1stMqrdvR0DOkqs0AgQ2GP7fJcZE5gE5ZsxL4Uld ws4fxSbOoLNQD9qdhd4p0inJnY5Rqa/Wa35SCWI/zGFuhvOI9fDqbC0p8W0uERNvd+aR yODA== X-Received: by 10.194.57.237 with SMTP id l13mr958068wjq.102.1409642443793; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.69.52.109] ([90.216.134.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id u7sm31604834wif.7.2014.09.02.00.20.42 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:20:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Original-From: Luca Milanesio In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Chris, Seattle is a very inconvenient location for most of the people coming from Europe: somewhere in the Bay area would be better and less expensive for us. Luca. On 2 Sep 2014, at 07:21, Christian Couder wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It looks like there will be no Git conference or Git developer meeting > this year. > > Anyway, next year Git will be 10 years old and it would be nice if > something could be organized. > > A few week ago, I was at the LinuxCon North America in Chicago [1]. I > love going to a LinuxCon and giving a presentation there. It was my > 4th LinuxCon (2 in Europe and 2 in North America) and they are always > very well organized. They also often host other open source/free > software conferences like for Mesos [2] or Gstreamer [3]. > > So I wonder if we could officially ask if they could host and help > organize a Git conference next year. > > In fact I already discussed this with a few of the LinuxFoundation > people at the LinuxCon and they looked happy with that. I also talked > with a few Github guys there who were also happy with that. > > Github was a gold sponsor of the LinuxCon as well as Google [1], and > Atlassian was a platinum sponsor of the co-located MesosCon [2]. So it > looks like many companies involved with Git like the LinuxFoundation > and already collaborate with it. > > At the LinuxCon they said that the next LinuxCon North America is > planned for August 2015 in Seattle. Seattle is a not very far away > from were Junio, Shawn and Linus live, and Linus usually comes to the > LinuxCon North America, so I suppose that it would not be a big burden > for them to come if they want to. > > As many Linux kernel developers have been contributing to Git, > especially at the beginning, which was very important for the success > of Git, I think it would be nice if some of them could easily take > part of a Git conference where we would celebrate the 10th anniversary > of Git. > > To sum up it would be a very nice common ground for both companies and > developers, and it would be much easier to organize with the great > help and experience of the LinuxFoundation. > > Best, > Christian. > > > [1] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america > [2] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon > [3] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/2014/index.html > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html