diaspora* hackathon at the Mozilla Paris office

do you know how flexible hours we can work, do we have only limited access to the office or can we go 24h?

I stayed for events until 01:00 AM. Not sure we can stay that long every day though. I have to confirm with the mozilla employees.

As for the number of person, the office is big, we can be 15-20 without problems.

@flaburgan

not too sure about a fundraising, maybe we can simply use the money we have with the FSSN?

Be sure! I doubt we can get the FSSN involved in this hackathon in the required time frame.

Why are you not sure? I'm quite sure many community members would love to sponsor some work on the project.

@dennisschubert @florianstaudacher @jhass @goob could you please fill the poll?

I doubt Paris is that expensive that we need to commute 2 hours daily?

Why? That's what I do every day when I got to school.
Indeed, I do not stay for a drink after the lectures :p

I do not have my planning for next year so, right now, all dates will look the same: I'll be able to be present saturday and sunda only. When I have the planning, my work-periods will likely be at the end of october but I can't be sure for now.

@augier and you're leaving there. We will have only 4 days. Maybe we can check Air b'n'b? But I'd like to fix the date first, then we'll see what we can do.

I really don't see why we can't ask the community for help. What is wrong with that?

I really don’t see why we can’t ask the community for help. What is wrong with that?

Nothing at all! That's what I proposed in my first message: in my opinion it will be way cheaper to directly ask for accommodation than to ask for money to pay for accommodation. And then we'll be able to keep money for things we can't ask freely. So that's why I propose to first set up a date, then see if this date is fine with mozilla, then ask for people if someone has a place to host us (eventually check that with mozilla too), if we see that's too difficult, then ask for money and rent a place with airbnb.

What about travel costs? :) Also, I really believe having one person there, another there, another at third place, will make it really difficult to work efficiently.

I don't mind organizing it if no one opposes, using bountysource for example.

But yeah, getting a final OK on the date is of course most important first - so maybe we could set a deadline this wednesday midnight for people to participate in the poll?

I'm very happy to see such an event happen! I am tempted to suggest you to go for the fundraising anyway, with several targets: first the travel costs, second the food, third the hosting if not directly provided by peoples, etc... depending on the amount of money you get. Just make clear it is for the event to take place, and not to see some specific features implemented. ;-)

It would also be nice to plan what we want to work on / discuss about.