Hi all, On the trip to (and from) Bachotek, Hans and I have discussed a great many topics related to ConTeXt. One of the things we discussed was this: If there is sufficient interest, we could organize a ConTeXt (mini)conference. Tentative programme: friday night : arrivals saturday : talks sunday : talks/tutorials/workshops monday morning : early departures monday : developer meetings & more tutorials We are thinking about spring 2007 (March or April). The meeting place would be the south of the Netherlands, close to Maastricht Aachen Airport. We cannot say how much it would cost without a better idea of number of attendees/programme, but we will try to keep the costs low. Some stuff we really want to know, so we can make a final decision: * are you interested in such a meeting? ("no" is also an interesting answer!) * would you be willing to give a talk or tutorial? (Hans and I cannot talk for three days straight) * are you happy with planning/programme? (any special requests about topics?) NOTE: In the interest of email traffic control we request that if you only reply "yes" or "no", then please reply to me *personally*, and no to the entire list. Thanks in advance. Greetings, Taco (also talking for Hans)
Hi Taco, Hans, Definitely a great idea. I feel that so many things are moving that it could be a good point to establish a new "baseline". Humble, I would definitely be prepared to help you in whatever respect if ever my knowledge is big enough: presentation, tutorial ... Kind regards Willi Taco Hoekwater wrote:
hmm, on Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:55:46PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater said that
One of the things we discussed was this: If there is sufficient interest, we could organize a ConTeXt (mini)conference.
conferences make the world go around :) as the timeline is quite stretched, i propose to make a wiki page about this, your mail will be inevitably lost in the archives. also the discussion feature of the wiki will be excellent. i think a "community" heading on the contextgarden.net main page would be a great place to put articles like this (i don't have the right to create it), also along with companies/individuals offering commercial/non-commercial support, etc. i also think that having a news blog (which is quite dead) is a bit of an overkill, the couple of news items which appear could be handled manually in the wiki itself.... oh my, i got quite offtopic again :) -f -- i tried switching to gum but i couldn't keep it lit!
On 5/15/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
I would suggest to put some stress on documentation as well. There could be some specific topic proposed each year and some additional effort put to fill in certain gaps in the documentation. Interesting talks at 9 in the morning (as in BachoTeX) are a brilliant idea. Any special guests? (well, you and Hans are special guests already)
Sounds OK since it's pretty close to Brussels airport as well. If the exact date will be announced early enough, many Europeans can probably get some "priceless" flights (starting from 20 EUR or so).
As I already said: sure! (hoping that the date doesn't interfere with something else) Mojca
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frantisek holop -
Mojca Miklavec -
Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle -
Taco Hoekwater -
Willi Egger